Hey guys,
I just got back from visiting my brother in SE Iowa, and while up there we walked a creek on the property and found this little point. I'm thinking it's a Kirk Corner notched because it isn't beveled (if it were it would fall under the Lost Lake classification). It's very well made, has no impact fractures and looks like it was originally a much larger point that was resharpened to its current shape. I think it was likely used as a knife.
Anyway, the next day I had to drive back to Georgia, but on the way home I stopped in NE Missouri and picked up a few pieces of chert where the road cut thru some limestone beds. I threw the chert on my floor, and then later I looked at the arrowhead. But when I put the arrowhead up to the stone I was shocked to find that the stone I had just picked up matched the arrowhead perfectly, as you can see in the picture. That arrowhead just about disappears when you lay it on the chert I had picked up, and you can't get a better match than that. The artifact matches the stone so well that it's difficult to see the point in that last photo.
The stone source is about 90 miles south of where we found the arrowhead, obvious evidence that the stone was traded or carried far from its source. That was really cool! Rarely are you able to trace an arrowhead to the source where the stone was originally quarried, but I was able to do just that! Wow. It was like retracing the footsteps of ancient people. Stuff like this really turns my gears! Enjoy....
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