GENERAL DESCRIPTION: This medium-size point has straight to convex sides and an expanded stem.  The blade is triangular, having straight to convex edges.  Shoulders are weak and angular; the stem is broad and expanded.  The basal edge is straight.  This point was named by Olaf Prufer (1967:21) for examples found at Chesser Cave in southwestern Ohio.

 

 AGE AND CULTURE: A late or terminal Hopewell-early Late Woodland point dating between A.D. 400 and A.D. 770.

 

 DISTRIBUTION:  Reported from Ohio but it is expected to extend into Pennsylvania and Michigan.

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