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DALTON POINT
BASE
OLIVE BRANCH SITE
ALEXANDER COUNTY, ILLINOIS
PRIVATE COLLECTION
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This broken Dalton point, from the Olive Branch site,
illustrates one
of the more typical basal thinning techniques
that Dalton knappers
used to make their points. Instead of
one large channel flake this
example was basally thinned by
removing multiple flakes by pressure flaking.
It's possible that this Dalton point was actually
fluted during
its early phase of preform development. Late stage
pressure
flaking may have removed all traces of a channel flake.
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