pip. nI)!' 2¥]''" JOBDNT H. KERR RESERVOIR BASIN— MILLER 299 



as discards or artifacts, was at a premium due to the former treatment 

 of the site during prehistoric and historic times, 



Witthoft (1952) recorded similar points from the Shoop site in 

 Pennsylvania and upon the strength of these findings he advanced the 

 theory that these points were much older than those located at the 

 Lindenmeier site. Krieger (1954), on the other hand, does not agree 

 with Witthof t's thesis but indicates that the triple flaking of the fluted 

 area may be a retrogressive trait rather than an early technique and 

 may not be indicative of anything since there is a large variation within 

 the projectile assemblage of a single group, which has been ably dem- 

 onstrated by the Naco finds (Haury, 1953). Whether all of these 

 points can be classified as Clovis must await further study, since there 

 is a great variation in the overall length, width, and chipping tech- 

 nique, and at the present time it would appear that both forms are 

 coeval. 



Three of the sites in the John H. Kerr Eeservoir Basin produced 

 not only fluted points but gravers, snub-nosed scrapers, scraper-burins, 

 choppers, and a well fashioned coup-de-pong. Associated with this 

 assemblage are a number of pentagonal points which incorporate cer- 

 tain characteristics commonly found in Folsom points. These forms 

 are thin in cross section, fluting on one or both faces, secondary re- 

 chipping, and are usually found on sites contributing typical fluted 

 points. Corresponding forms have been found at the Williamson's 

 site and have been linked by Miller (1948) with an Early Man complex. 



Earlier, Buslmell (1935, pp. 35-36) described a similar point by 

 stating that — 



a pentagonal point found north of Elys Ford, Va., was discovered on the highland 

 east of the road, about a quarter of a mile north of Elys Ford. It is of a dark, 

 slightly mottled yellow jasper. Like the Folsom they may be widely scattered 

 east of the Mississippi although not numerous in any one locality. . . . The 

 relation of the two types, if any actually exists, has not been determined. 



Other pentagonal points, resembling the one described by Bushnell, 

 have been recovered from sites in Mecklenburg, Amelia, and Char- 

 lotte Counties in Virginia. One of these points in particular is fluted 

 on both sides. The flute on one side was made by striking off triple 

 flakes, resembling in a broad sense those points of Witthoft (1952, 

 pi. 1, No. 18), while two of the other points still retain vestiges of 

 small "striking platforms" within the slight concave base. 



These pentagonal points have been skillfully clipped, showing very 

 fine secondary rechipping along the edges, and range in size from 1 

 inch to 2146 inches in length and from % of an inch to 1 inch in width. 



Just what affiliations these points have in common with the Folsoms 

 of Virginia cannot be positively ascertained. Whether they are late 

 variants of the Folsom concept or they represent retained ideas com- 



