| This frame of points and knives illustrates several of the major cultural
typologies representing the Transitional Paleo through Early Archaic Periods
in Will County, IL.
Of particular note is the Thebes Blunt—a point either broken and reworked
to this configuration, or deliberately formed in this manner. Blunts, often
(and mistakenly) assumed to have been used as ‘stunning points’, are in
fact scrapers and knives used to fashion wood, bone and hide into more
usable forms. |
