NATIVE AMERICAN PROJECTILE POINT CLASSIFICATION GUIDE
Jay F. Custer's A Guide to Prehistoric Arrowheads and Spear Points is available for $5.00 plus $0.75 shipping and handling.
For your copy write to:
Delaware State Visitors Center
406 Federal Street
Dover, DE 19901
or call (302)739-4266
This guide provides a wealth of information for anyone who wants to identify what is in his or her artifact collection. The introduction has a fascinating discussion on what is a projectile point and what makes it effective. The heart of the guide is the classification questionnaire that helps you pick out the features that best identify a point. This is followed by a section with a page of description on each point type with illustrations and notes about dating and raw material. Other useful items include charts on rare and common types of points and their chronology, an outline of what archaeologists currently know about Delaware’s prehistory, and a glossary of the common rock types used to make points.
