Archaic Projectile Point

The point was collected during archeological monitoring during construction of a utility line. The point style is from the Late Archaic (1200 B.C.E to 200/900 A.D.) Guadalupe Mountains National Park lies in the Trans-Pecos region of west Texas. During the Late Archaic, increased settlement and use of the area by people occurred in the west portion of the park. Artifacts like this projectile point can tell scientist when people live here, what they hunted, where they hunted, and where they gathered the raw materials, the stone, to make their tools. This point can tell a story about the past and the artist who fashioned it.