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Name Details:
Named By: Richard
"Scotty" MacNeish
Named For: Type
Site
Date Identified: 1962
Type Site: Nogales
Cave (Tm-c-82), Tamaulipas, Mexico
Nogales
Cluster:
Commonly Utilized Material:
Date:
Cultural Period:
4,500 - 1,300 B.P.
Middle to Transitional Archaic
Neoglacial to Roman Warm
Glacial Period:
Culture:
Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a medium to large isosceles triangular point with an elliptical cross
section. The blade is excurvate with the widest portion of the
blade being near the base. The base is slightly convex with
primarily rounded basal corners, but can occasionally form right angles.
Bases are commonly thinned with 1 to 5 percussion flakes.
This point is made with course percussion flaking and finished with a
course pressure flaking. Rarely this point will have fine pressure
flaking on the edges and base.
Size Measurements: Length - 35 to 88 mm (average 50 mm), Blade Width - 16 to 51 mm (average 27
to 33 mm), Thickness - 6 to 15 mm (average 9 to 11 mm)
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point have been reported in Pinejo Cave in southern Arizona,
throughout the Valley of Mexico and throughout the Tehuacan Valley of
Mexico. Reported in Cueva de la Nopalera, Hidalgo, Mexico.
Related / Associated Points:
Additional Comments:
Other points in this Cluster:
Point Validity: Valid Type
MacNeish was a pioneering
anthropologist who was most notable for his excavations and studies at Tamaulipas Mexico. This
type was identified during excavations of Nogales Cave and has many
professional references. This is considered a valid type.
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Age Details:
MacNeish (1993), notes that the these occur earliest in the Fresnal phase
and progress into the El Paso phase. He notes that these were probably
used as as both knives and possibly projectiles which would account for the
long span of time in which they were used.
Pictures Provided By:
George Verworren
Dirk Diggler
Wildrido Ocejo
As illustrated by MacNeish, 1993
References: (See Reference Page, Entry Number):
167, 189, 190
Nogales Projectile Point, Nogales Arrowhead
