tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post2228185008189629182..comments2024-03-28T19:28:10.100-04:00Comments on <b>Rock Piles</b>: Back at the new site, quartz stemmed arrowheadpwaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-2455479630445290092023-08-10T11:29:03.601-04:002023-08-10T11:29:03.601-04:00A comment about the "Merrimack" classifi...A comment about the "Merrimack" classification. I came across several of them at the Robbins Museum and Chris is correct: these stemmed points are called "Merrimack" points. But I have to object to the use of that particular word. I collected at the heart of the Merrimack River system in Concord and, no, those arrowheads do not occur there at the sites I know. So whatever pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-67258631648204871302014-01-28T15:40:16.350-05:002014-01-28T15:40:16.350-05:00Of course I should be honest and admit I don't...Of course I should be honest and admit I don't know those later arrowhead types. For some reason they are not common here in Concord.pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-78139135113645709552014-01-28T15:39:15.460-05:002014-01-28T15:39:15.460-05:00I have heard this opinion of stemmed points not be...I have heard this opinion of stemmed points not being cultural but based on practical uses of the point. I don't buy it on an emotional level but there is also an rational reason to reject it: the stemmed points coincide with certain limited types of material. Those materials are not found with other types of arrowheads. So it is cultural.pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-80555682501458583242011-11-21T12:44:59.922-05:002011-11-21T12:44:59.922-05:00I suggested Merrimack based on the well-thinned an...I suggested Merrimack based on the well-thinned and ground stem, the neatly executed shoulders, and the size. These can be difficult or impossible to type with certainty, I have read that narrow stemmed points may have been a technological manifestation rather than a cultural manifestation, they seem to have been widely used at many times all over the eastern US and variations may not be as Chris Pittmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471037186411393740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-44275671549559464642011-11-21T07:08:16.685-05:002011-11-21T07:08:16.685-05:00Nice and symmetric, a beautiful point! I have noth...Nice and symmetric, a beautiful point! I have nothing like that and it seems more like a "small stemmed" point than a member of the Merrimack family. But it is pretty big too. Congratulations.pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.com