McKean Lanceolate Colorado – Arrowhead & Projectile Point Identification
- Culture: McKean Complex Middle Archaic
- Time period: 3,000-1,500 BCE
- Region: Colorado Southwest
- Material: Chert, quartzite, argillite, rhyolite
Medium-sized excurvate blades, elliptical cross-section. Size: 35-61mm length, 14-21mm width. Concave notched base basal thinning. Duncan small medium stemmed points weak absent shoulders. Hanna barbed shoulder variant expanding stems. Mallory side-notched, notably thinner McKean types. Yonkee part McKean complex shoulder variants. Late Archaic, Basketmaker, early Pueblo I points show considerable morphological overlap.
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