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MIDLAND POINT
BLACKWATER DRAW SITE
(AVAILABLE CAST)
A PALEO-INDIAN MAMMOTH & BISON KILL SITE
CURRY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO
EST. 11,500 years
ago
COPYRIGHT
OCTOBER 31, 2003 PETER A. BOSTROM
CAST
#P-42
MIDLAND POINT (ORIGINAL)
CURRY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO
BLACKWATER SITE
FOREST FENN COLLECTION
This Midland point was found
sometime in the 1930's at the Clovis Gravel Pit in Curry County, New
Mexico before it was named the Blackwater Draw site by archaeologists.
Blackwater Draw was a Paleo-Indian mammoth and bison kill site.
Midland points were named after the town of Midland,
Texas from examples found on the Scharbauer site located nearby. Some
archaeologists believed that Midland points are unfluted versions of
Folsom points. Some of them may be Folsom points that were to thin to
flute. But Midland points do seem to be an independent point type because
some sites only produce this style of projectile point.
This Midland point was originally in the Charles Rhoton
collection. It's made of a blue-gray chert of good quality and
measures 2 1/4 inches (5.6cm) long.
MIDLAND AND FOLSOM POINT COMPARISON
BLACKWATER DRAW SITE
CURRY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO
FORREST FENN COLLECTION
Both of these spear points were found on the Blackwater Draw site sometime
in the 1930's. The Folsom point on the right is available as cast number P-21.
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