Native American, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, Early Archaic to Mississippian Periods, ca. 7500 BCE to 1700 CE (9,500 to 300 BP). A lovely gathering of 16 hand-knapped stone arrowheads in hues of ash and charcoal grey, cream, and toffee and presenting a wide variety of forms, such as triangular, triangular corner notch, triangular basal notch, triangular expanding stem, triangular side notch, ovoid, triangular stemmed, corner notch, lanceolate expanding stem, and triangular bifurcated. These wonderful projectile points can be classified into the types of Neuberger, Petit Jean River, Madison, Young, Mehlville, Table Rock, Matanzas, Neosho, Nodena, Limestone, Fairland, Williams, Stone, Rice Lobed, and Cupp. Size of largest: 1.75" W x 4.5" H (4.4 cm x 11.4 cm); Size of frame: 10.5" W x 12.125" H (26.7 cm x 30.8 cm)

Knapped lithics, like these examples, are made using percussion, striking them with other stones; the process required to get them the correct shape requires training and skill.

Provenance: private Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA collection; ex-Charles (Charlie) Meyer collection, noted collector and famed illustrator for Greg Perino, famed authenticator and writer

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Losses to tips of two and stem of one. Nicks/chips to peripheries, commensurate with age and use. Otherwise, excellent.