Maritime archaic spearpoints : a new examination of their context and chronology

• Main Author: Garbellano, John Michael
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholars Archive 2018
• Subjects: Archaic; Lithic Analysis; Maritime Archaic; Material culture; Northeast; Technology; Projectile points; Spears; Stone implements; Indians of North America; History of Art; Architecture; and Archaeology; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/legacy-etd/2059; https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/context/legacy-etd/article/3058/viewcontent/Garbellano_APYo49eY5dEbr4RFJBEWeC.pdf

This research focuses on the morphology, chronology and provenience of nipple-based spearpoints found in Newfoundland and Labrador and their relationship to larger-scale cultural processes during the Archaic period of that Province. Nipple-based points are primarily thought to date between 7500-6000 B.P. and are associated with the early Maritime Archaic tradition, the earliest inhabitants of Newfoundland and Labrador. A recent find of a nipple-based point at the Stock Cove site (CkA1-3) in eastern Newfoundland could mean that part of the island was colonized earlier than previously thought. Lithic analysis of the Stock Cove artifact will be discussed, and the results will be put into the larger cultural context of the Maritime Archaic lithic technology and what it suggests about the broader colonization process of Newfoundland.