Chipped Projectile Points
The tools hunters made and used during the Archaic Period became increasingly specialized. Lance and spear points, as well as knives, were fashioned by chipping stone with glass-like properties. These tools were tied to wooden shafts in new ways, by using notches and stems. The shape of projectile points was varied for stylistic, and perhaps functional, reasons. Since these innovations were introduced gradually, archaeologists can use the shapes of projectile points as time markers for particular centuries or millennia.
 | Notched projectile point
Morrison's Island, Quebec
(near Pembroke, Ontario)
5,000 years old
Length: 4 cm
Gift of Clyde Kennedy, 1994
CMC BkGg-12:6615 |  | Notched projectile point
Baie Mooney, Ottawa
5,000 years old
Length: 4 cm
Gift of Clyde Kennedy, 1994
CMC BkGg-12:5604 |  | Lanceolate projectile point
Morrison's Island, Quebec
(near Pembroke, Ontario)
5,000 years old
Length: 6.5 cm
Don de Clyde Kennedy, 1994
CMC BkGg-12:7872 |
 | Notched projectile point
Marshall Bay, near Arnprior, Ontario
2,500-5,000 years old
Length: 6 cm
Gift of George Bleakney, 1940
CMC VIIIF-26748 |  | Stemmed projectile point
Driscoll site, Rideau Lakes, Ontario
2,500-5,000 years old
Length: 5 cm
Gift of Gordon D. Watson
CMC BfGa-24-54-101-1 |  | Stemmed projectile point
Ottawa
2,500-5,000 years old
Length: 10 cm
Gift of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society, 1884
CMC VIIIF-15075 |
 | Stemmed projectile point
Ottawa
2,500-5,000 years old
Length: 10 cm
Gift of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society, 1884
CMC VIIIF-15074 |  | Notched projectile point
Ottawa
2,500-5,000 years old
Length: 6 cm
Gift of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society, 1884
CMC VIIIF-15084 | | |
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