CAST #P-76

EDEN POINT
FINLEY SITE
EDEN, WYOMING

PRIVATE COLLECTION
COPYRIGHT AUGUST 31, 2008 PETER A. BOSTROM
Cast of a small Eden point from the Finley site.
CAST ILLUSTRATED
CAST #P-76
EDEN POINT
FINLEY SITE
EDEN, WYOMING

PRIVATE COLLECTION

   This Eden point was found many years ago on the Finley site near Eden, Wyoming. The Finley site is a bison kill site and some evidence for this can be seen on the tip of this point in the form of an impact fracture. This small Eden point may have been resharpened one or more times. It measures 1 9 /16 inches (4 cm) long.
 
  Eden points were first found in Yuma County, Colorado blow-outs during the 1930's but none were found in situ until the spring of 1940 when Harold J. Cook spent several days digging on a site discovered by O. M. Finley. The Eden point type was named by H. M. Wormington after the town of Eden, Wyoming near where the type site is located. The Eden type site was named in honor of O. M. Finley who discovered the site (Wormington 1957: 124).
   Eden points are one component  of the Cody Complex for which Irwin (1971) gives a time span of 7,000 to 6,500 B.C. and a geographical range of from southwest Texas to north west Wisconsin to eastern British Columbia. Eden points are famous for their exquisite workmanship. Though the Cody Complex is usually referred to as Paleo-Indian, available evidence indicates they were hunting the same animals in exactly the same manner as their descendants were until the introduction of the bow.

Impact fracture on the tip of Finley site Eden point.

EDEN POINT TIP
FINLEY SITE, EDEN WYOMING

    Picture shows impact fracture on the tip of this Finley site Eden point.

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