This stone projectile point is known as a Hardaway Side-Notched and it is typically identified by its recurved base and U-shaped side notches that create its distinctive “horned appearance”. The Hardaway Side-Notched point type is associated with the transitional Late Paleoindian/Early Archaic Period (c. 8000-7500 BC) and was first described by Joffre Coe from specimens excavated at the famous Hardaway site (31ST4) in Stanly County, NC. This type of artifact was used as a spear or dart point and likely was secondarily used as a knife and/or scraping tool. This particular point is made from a metavolcanic stone commonly called rhyolite and has been re-sharpened many times. It was found at a site (31WA1844) in Wake County, NC and donated to the Office of State Archaeology (Accession no. 2013.0867a1). It measures 30.5 mm long, 27.5 mm wide, and 5.0 mm thick. This model was constructed by David Cranford with 50 photos using Agisoft Metashape software. (Credit: NCDNCR/OSA)
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