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Figure 18. — Landmarks on pentagonal points. 



Six hundred and thirty-five stone tools or fragments were recov- 

 ered from a number of sites in the Bhiestone Creek drainage. Of 

 this number 552 are of chert, 105 are of rhyolite, and 8 are of quartz- 

 ite. Not all of the tools are complete and only about half of these can 

 be classed as projectile points. The rest are either picks, digging tools, 

 Imives, crude scrapers, or large chips that v/ere used as cutting tools. 

 Projectile types have been roughly classed as ovates, lanceolates, and 

 stemmed. 



Most of the ovate types (pi. 48) are somewhat lanceolate in outline, 

 fairly thick and lenticular in cross section, and vary in length from 

 1% inches to 5l^ inches. Some are percussion chipped, others are 

 pressure flaked, while others appear to have been rapped into shape. 

 A combination of all techniques may be found upon a single specimen. 



Five subtypes of the ovate forms have been determined. These are 

 as follows (detailed measurements are given in table 2) : 



Type 1 : Stemless, notchless 



Outline: Essentially ovate 



Lateral edges: Slightly convex 



Base: Decidedly rounded 



Length: Varies from 36 to 84 mm. 



Width: Varies from 14 to 33 mm. 



Thickness: Varies from 6 to 13 mm. 



Distribution: Comparable forms have been noted from southern and east- 

 ern Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, 

 and New York and extending westward to and beyond the Mississippi 

 River. 



Resemblances: Some resemble the Pinto leaf -shaped of California (Worm- 

 Ington, 1947, p. 79, flg. 17 c) while others resemble the type 1 of Clear Fork 

 culture of Texas (Roberts, 1940, p. 74 and fig. 7, //) . 



