Chesser Notched Point   Save
Clifford Anderson Collection
Description: This Chesser Notched point is made of flint that is mostly dark gray, but with hints of very dark gray, pinkish gray, brown, light gray, and red. The triangular blade has an off-center tip, indicating that the blade has probably been reworked on one side. The stem is widest at the base, the edges of which have been ground smooth. The corner notches are wide and smooth and there are small chips on the blade and the base. This piece comes from Hopewell Culture. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large - the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A2121_000332_004
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders; Projectile points
Places: Clifford Anderson Collection