CAST #P-18

PROJECTILE POINT
SIBERIA
USHKI I SITE---LEVEL VII
11,000 TO 12,000 B.C.

    The Ushki I site is located in the central Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia. Several levels of occupation are recognized from excavations there. Level 7 is the earliest and carbon dates indicate that it could be 14,000 years old. Upper levels date to approximately 10,350 years ago.
   Excavations at Ushki I level 7 produced bifacially flaked stemmed projectile points and end scrapers. No wedge-shaped cores or micro-blades were found.

CAST #OW-1
PROJECTILE POINT
SIBERIA
USHKI I SITE---LEVEL VII
11,000 TO 12,000 B.C.

    This stemmed bifacially flaked projectile point was excavated several years ago on the Ushki I site in the central Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia. It represents the earliest example of a projectile point from the lowest level of excavation. It was made from an opaque black material that looks like basalt and measures 2 1/4 inches long (55mm). This point may have been used on the tip of a spear and propelled through the air with a spear thrower.
   This stemmed projectile point, if the radio carbon dates are correct, is about the same age as Clovis. The early material from Ushki is sometimes compared to material from Alaska's Nenana complex which is also about the same age. The artifact assemblages from these cultural complexes and traditions have been used to theorize a possible "Late Entry"  model of emigration into North America by people coming from Siberia. Another model theorizes an "Early Entry" into North America which would mean these artifact assemblages were preceded by a much earlier peopling event.

References:

1991, "Clovis: Origins and Adaptations", Ted, Goebel, Roger Powers & Nancy Bigelow, pp. 75.

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