A Barbed Bone Projectile Point from Utah

• Published in: American Antiquity
• Main Author: Gillin, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1940
• Subjects: Museology; Archeology; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); History; Arctic; Ephraim
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/275837; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600036155

In view of the fact that barbed bone “projectile” points are extremely rare in the Southwestern archaeological area and because such artifacts have a generally northern and arctic distribution in North America, the present specimen from Utah is offered in the hope that other material of a similar nature from the Southwest may be published and that, perhaps, someone may be attracted to the elucidation of the problems implied. The present writer is unaware of other published specimens of bone projectile points from this area, although, of course, bone artifacts of several other types are fairly numerous. The present specimen was recovered in the summer of 1937 by the Peabody Museum-University of Utah joint expedition, of which the writer was field director. The point was found at a site, near Ephraim, Utah, locally known as Witch's Knoll.