Early archaic archaeology

Abstract

One of the obvious prehistoric, stone-tool-making transitions in the Southeastern United States was the abandonment of lanceolate Paleoindian projectile point types in favor of Early Archaic notched point forms. In the coastal states of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and eastern Mississippi a notched point type referred to here as Bolen replaced older lanceolate forms by ~10,000 14C BP. Predecessors to the Bolen type include notched forms such as the Greenbriar type, which co-occured with Late Paleoindian lanceolate types at Dust Cave in Alabama from ~10,500 14C BP to ~10,000 14C BP (Driskell, 1994).