Site Recording Form -- Point Features and Terminology -- Early Paleo Fluted Spear Points -- Clovis -- Folsom/Midland -- Eastern Fluted (Gainey) -- Late Paleo Lanceolate Points -- Plainview -- Agate Basin -- Hell Gap -- Frederick/Allen/Browns Valley -- Eden/Scottsbluff -- Dalton/Quad -- Hi-Lo/Price Stemmed/Chesrow --Early Archaic Stemmed and Corner-Notched Points -- Hardin Barbed -- Thebes -- St. Charles -- Kessell Side-Notched -- Kirk Corner-Notched -- Middle Archaic Stemmed and Side-Notched Points -- Matanzas -- Raddatz Side-Notched/Osceola -- Late Archaic Stemmed and Corner-Notched Points -- Preston Corner-Notched -- Durst Stemmed -- Early Woodland Stemmed Points -- Kramer -- Waubesa Contracting Stem/Dickson Broad Blade -- Middle Woodland Broad Corner-Notched Points -- Snyders Corner-Notched/Manker Corner-Notched -- Steuben Expanded Stemmed/McCoy Corner-Notched/Monona Stemmed -- Late Prehistoric Woodland and Oneota Arrowheads -- Honey Creek Corner-Notched -- Cahokia/Grant Side-Notched -- Madison Triangular
Summary
The most common relics of the 12,000-year occupancy of the Upper Mississippi River Valley may be the chipped stone projectile points that Native Americans fastened to the ends of their spears, darts, and arrow shafts. This useful guide provides a key to identifying the various styles of points found along the Upper Mississippi River in the Driftless region stretching roughly from Dubuque, Iowa, to Red Wing, Minnesota, but framed within a somewhat larger area extending from the Rock Island Rapids at the modern Moline-Rock Island area to the Falls of St. Anthony at Minneapolis-St. Paul
