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Afton points, named from examples found by Holmes (1901, p. 

 246) in a ceremonial spring near Afton, northeastern Oklahoma, are 

 characterized as large-sized projectile points with an "almost rec- 

 tangular body, an abrupt triangular point, a wide, square base, and 

 concave lateral margins. The points are rather wide and thin." They 

 can be further characterized as having prominent barbs, with an 

 expanding base, and sides roughly parallel to the squared base sur- 

 mounted by a triangular-shaped point, the whole presenting an angu- 

 lar outline that is very prominent. 



Points fitting this description have been found not only in the 

 reservoir but in the Ohio Valley as well. They occur in prepottery 

 horizons and "may be assigned an age of several thousand years" 

 (Bell and Hall, 1953, p. 7). 



Holmes suggested that these "spear points of unique form, very 

 probably were made especially for sacrificial purposes," for they were 

 not numerous in the spring deposit. Some showed that they were 

 freshly resharpened along the edges, as there was a distinct color 

 differential showing in earlier darker original chipped surface and the 

 neAver, brighter, rechipping. 



A number of medium-sized, stemmed projectile points, ranging in 

 length from 40 to 45 mm., in width from 23 to 38 mm., and in maximum 

 thickness from 7 to 10 mm., are characterized by having a well-formed 

 parallel-sided stem with straight or concave base, the concavity of 

 which is never very deep. They are thinned by the removal of one 



Figure 19. — Huntley points — reminiscent of San Patrice points of Suhm and Krieger. 



