Pelican Lake Montana – Arrowhead & Projectile Point Identification
- Culture: Late Archaic
- Time period: 400 BCE to 800 CE
- Region: Montana Northern Plains
- Material: Knife River flint (Hopewellian connections)
Corner-notched points distinctive barbed shoulders. Plains Montana, Dakotas, Wyoming, northern Colorado, Nebraska. Become smaller through time; earlier varieties shallower corner notches. Associated nomadic hunting-gathering populations focused bison hunting. McKean Complex Points preceded Pelican Lake stratigraphic deposits. Virtually identical Pelican Lake peoples, bison focus.
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