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Oxbow points (Top) Besant points (Bottom) |
Last week I knapped reproductions of a couple styles of projectile points found on the prairies; Oxbow and Besant. Oxbow points are the earlier form and according to
Record in Stone: Familiar Projectile Points From Alberta they date from 4500-4100 BP. They were named for the town of Oxbow in Saskatchewan and have very distinctive ears that result from side notches with a deep concave base. Besant points are found a little later (2500-1350 BP) and have a few more regional and temporal variants, but they all tend to have wide side-notches or an expanding stem. Both Oxbow and Besant points were likely used on darts that were launched with atlatls. I made these for a friend who is building a point typology collection assembled with reproductions made by his knapping buddies.
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A page from Record in Stone, showing a variety of Oxbow points. My reproductions are the two at the bottom corners of the page. |
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The Besant page from Record in Stone, with my reproductions laying in the lower left and right corners. The lower right hand corner is made from Knife River Flint. I don't have access to a lot of common knapping stones from the prairies, but somewhere along the way, someone gave me some KRF to try out. |
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Read to ship. |
Photo Credits: Tim Rast
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