Projectile Point Late Norton (Brooks River Falls Phase)

This lanceolate stemmed point was chosen to showcase the skill and artistry of past residents of the area, their adaptive re-use of objects, and their selection of strong and beautiful lithic materials for stone tools. Like a majority of the museum collections from the Alagnak Wild River, this object is archeological. It was excavated from an eroding prehistoric village site along the Alagnak Wild River, which meanders through a unique landscape of open tundra, spruce forests, and dramatic canyon walls in Southwestern Alaska. With barbed shoulders, a contracting stem, and a convex base, it is very similar to stemmed points from the Brooks River Falls Phase, Based on this distinctive shape, it dates from 1350-900 BP.