Boggy Branch
Age and Culture: Early to Middle Archaic 9,000 - 6000 B.P.
Distribution: Southeastern States
Description: Once thought to be an Alabama type that may belong to the late
Dalton,
early archaic periods. (Son Anderson 1987) , The range of this
point type
is ever expanding. Now known to be found in Alabama, Georgia,
Florida
and maybe even South Carolina. Made of raw coastal plain chert
the boggy
branch in found in subtype one and subtype two. Subtype one has
an elongated rounded base that maybe you could call a stem,
subtype two has
a shorter stem or base that is more squared off or straight
across the
stem basal edge.
Both exhibit a long serrated blade, usually
narrow or
more narrow than the base with a suggestion of small shoulders or
barbs
at the beginning of the stem. The way it got its name, sometime
in 1987
an old time collector named Mr. Ralph Allen approached Son
Anderson at a
Rebel States show (Al.) with a case of boggy branch points and
asked
what he thought they were.
When told they were a type that had never been named Mr. Allen asked Anderson if he would include them in a book he was in process of publishing on American Indian Point Types of North Florida, South Alabama and South Georgia. Anderson asked where most of them were found and Mr. Allen replied, along boggy branch in Henry co. Al., bingo the name stuck.
Subtype two was mentioned at that time but Mr. Allen wouldn't agree until about a year later.
Found in the Flint River, Mitchell Co Ga, Coastal Plains Chert
Text provided by member Son Anderson
Picture(s) provided by Kevin Dowdy