Pelican Lake Minnesota – Arrowhead & Projectile Point Identification

Culture: Pelican Lake culture/tradition

Time period: 3,500-2,200 BP (Late Archaic to Roman Warm periods)

Region: Minnesota western central counties: Chisago, Marshall, Stearns, Steele, Waseca

Material: Knife River flint, local cherts

Medium triangular corner-notched with flattened to elliptical cross-sections. Excurvate blade, distinctive barbed shoulders, short broad expanding stem. Many Minnesota examples show Hopewellian influence indicating trade networks cultural exchange. Small family groups protected wooded areas winter, larger groups western grasslands summer.

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