Novaculite

Tools and production debris, stone; Caddo (Archaic-Woodland periods), 10,500 BC – AD 1000; 3HS1 and provenience unknown, Hodges 77-1/74, 77-1/X.

Projectile points made from novaculite.

For further information about novaculite, visit the “Arkansas Novaculite: A Virtual Comparative Collection” website. To read about a novaculite ornament from southeastern Arkansas, see “Green Novaculite Carved Pendant”.

Text by Andrew Powell and Mary Beth Trubitt; photographs by Mary Beth Trubitt and Kate Wright.