Projectile Point

Noatak National Preserve lies above the Arctic Circle and has been home to people for well over 11,000 years. The Inupiaq peoples of the upper Noatak region have provided opportunities to study the cultural ecology of the Nuataaqmiut homeland and the development of some of the earliest New World cultural adaptations. This brown chert stemmed projectile point from the Lake Kaiyak area is a fine example of the archeological material collected in the preserve.