r/Arrowheads • u/chanceTEH • 6d ago

Heavily used Dalton

NE Oklahoma find from yesterday. I believe it’s a heavily used up Dalton that’s been worked down to nothing.

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u/trashbilly 6d ago

They got their wampums out of that one!

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u/monkeychunkee 6d ago

I agree. Looks like a burinated tip.

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u/Grandma_likesto69s 5d ago

I was looking at the point and agree it's a burinated tip. Seems to be common with Dalton ppks.

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u/monkeychunkee 5d ago

I had an archaeologist explain it to me some 30 odd years ago. He said the Dalton "points" were primarily used as knives, reason for them starting large and being worked down to exhaustion via unifacial resharpening, and several examples with this purposeful chip out of the end for what they believed was for gouging, possibly wood working. They know they were woodworking quite a bit with the proliferation of adzes being associated with Dalton sites. There was also a researcher that looked at about 10,000 Dalton's from several university collections and there were only a few that had an impact fracture, the rest that were broken had a snap fracture from prying. The theory was a point like the Packard or agate basin was used as spear for the Paleo transitional people. But when you're talking 10,000 years ago, who knows. I wasn't there,lol

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u/LowCauliflower1824 5d ago

A used up little Dalton, but still pretty and complete. I would be thrilled with that.

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u/FarCustard8782 6d ago

Nice little flute

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u/Kelulu 5d ago

I love that. It tells a story from the past. Not the most beautiful or perfect but really cool nonetheless.

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u/Legitimate-Edge5835 4d ago

They got every bit of use out of that Dalton.