Description

Collecting Native American projectile points, or arrowheads as they are commonly called, has been a popular pastime for generations of history enthusiasts. In prehistoric North America, projectile points were designed to be fastened to the ends of spears, darts, and arrow shafts. While points were made from antler, bone, and copper, most—at least most that have been preserved—were made from stone.

Tallahatta Quartz is associated with the Basic City Member of the Tallahatta Formation, Clairbourne Group primarily occurring as beds with outcroppings occurring from Neshoba County, Mississippi into Alabama, along the Chunky River and its tributaries in Lauderdale County, Mississippi and into Louisiana, southwestern Georgia, and northwestern Florida. May be found as cobble in rivers and creeks in this area.

Stone tools play a privileged role in archaeology as they are extremely durable, and they survive through most circumstances. Palaeolithic tools have survived for hundreds of thousands of years, enduring repeated Ice Ages and being washed down rivers, but we can still pick them up, see how were made and say things about their makers. Even for more recent periods, the effects of weather and ploughing over thousands of years means more often than not stone tools are the only surviving evidence for where people were living and what they were doing.