This remarkable fluted point, radiocarbon-dated to 12,350 +/- 50 calendar years before present, was excavated in September, 2013 at the Sugarloaf habitation site, Franklin County, Massachusetts. Covering four acres, the Sugarloaf Paleo-American site is perhaps the largest encampment of its era in northern North America.
   It is hypothesized that Sugarloaf occupants intercepted caribou herds moving south for the winter from calving grounds in southern Vermont and New Hampshire. This large fluted point may have been intended for tipping a lance used to spear caribou.
   This point is restored from two fragments (SLF-76 and SLF-79) and was broken during final manufacture. Its basal edges are unground proving that it had not yet been hafted. The "reversed" flake emanating from the break-line is an unique feature. The raw material is Normanskill chert from sources in the Hudson River Valley, 100-150 km to the west.
   Multiple channel-flaking - the scars being adjacent to one another - was commonly performed by descendant Clovis knappers in New England and thousands of kilometers to the west in northern and central Alaska. For both of these widely-separated populations caribou may have been their economic mainstay. This point measures 12.7 cm (5 inches) long.