SUBTRIANGULAR POINT This Subtriangular point represents one of two different styles of Nenana complex projectile points. Chindadn points have rounded or tear-drop shaped bases, this example has a very straight base. Moose Creek is the first site in the Nenana Valley to produce both the tear-drop and triangular style of Nenana complex projectile points. This point was manufactured on a smooth flake of basalt that was pressure flaked along the edges into shape. It measures 1 1/16 inches (2.6 cm) long, 11/16 inch (1.7 cm) wide and 2 mm thick. |
THE MOOSE CREEK The Moose Creek site was discovered in 1978 by J.F. Hoffecker and C.R. Waythomas during the North Alaska Range Early Man Project. The site was re-excavated in 1996 by Georges A. Pearson (University of Kansas). Moose Creek is a Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene multi-component site that contains a Nenana complex occupation overlaid by two superimposed Denali complex components. |
"REFERENCES"
1991,
"Clovis Origins and Adaptations," "The Nenana Complex of
Alaska and Clovis Origins," by Ted Goebel, Roger Powers and Nancy
Bigelow, pp 49-76. |