A Large Collection of North American Lithic...

Artifacts and Stone Tools. This lot consists of an assortment of North American lithic artifacts and natural stones. The collection includes various projectile point styles, featuring stemmed, side-notched, corner-notched, and lanceolate forms. Also present are several large bifaces, scrapers, preforms, and pieces of debitage. The artifacts are manufactured from a range of materials including multicolored chert, flint, quartz, and a dark vitreous stone. Construction techniques visible across the collection range from primary percussion flaking on larger preforms to fine secondary pressure flaking on the margins of more finished projectile points. The lot also includes several natural, water-worn river stones that show no clear signs of anthropogenic modification. The typologies represented...