seeking information

[ojibwatbowyer]

I need some information on some online sources that have pictures on different point types such as knives and arrowheads from Canada and Northern States. Mainly minesota, michigan and western wisconsin, as well as Ontario and eastern Manitoba. Sorry for my spelling, to lazy to spell check.

Nate

[ojibwatbowyer]

I just saw the spell check button beside the post button 

[AncientArcher76]

I would reccomend the overstreet guide it has all the point types and geographic locations...othrwise you can type in or google the point types of your region and you shoud get pictures or references to what you are looking for.  You can try your local library too.

Russ

[Hunts with stone]

Here is a link to free pdf books on point types.http://flintknappinginfo.webstarts.com/point_types.html

[JackCrafty]

Easy.

The area you describe is just east of the "Northern Plains" area.  That means that the point types will be a mix of Northern Plains types and Eastern types.  Probably 200 different points if you look at the time period from Paleo to Late Prehistoric.  Historic types will include some more types made of iron, brass, and copper from trade with Europeans.  Then there are the various inuit types that might be found on the Northern fringes of the area you want.  This also does not include the various bone, shell, antler, and wood points.  Then there are also specimens made of naturally occurring Great Lakes copper that were made before contact with Europeans.

Then you'll have to decide for yourself which stone blades are knives, which ones are atlatl points, which ones are ceremonial, and which ones are arrow points.  Archeologists have no clue.  God might know.   

In other words, you've got to narrow it down just a little bit.

[JackCrafty]

Nate, I hope you don't mind my know-it-all answer.  Sorry.

I've been reading archaeology stuff all week and it's amazing how much we really don't know about how stone tools were used.  The farther back we go, the worse it gets.  True arrowheads are not too bad.  We pretty much know by their small size.

As far as the stone points that the Ojibwe or Chippewa might have used, it's very hard to know anything of the really early days.  The later days saw a general simplification of points.  Triangular and leaf-shaped knife and arrowhead blades with no notches were pretty common.  So were antler tine arrowheads.

I'll do some research on this for you.

[ojibwatbowyer]

So its like lookingfor a needle in a pile of needles eh? or in this case an arrowhead in a pile of arrowheads? I'll take it