GENERAL DESCRIPTION:  This medium to large point has a rectangular stem with long parallel - sided blade. It's widest at the shoulders, which are narrow and angular, to rounded. T stem is long ; the side edges are ground. flaking may be random or parallel transverse. The Alberta point was named by Marie Wormington { 1957 :134 } for examples found in the province of Alberta, Canada. The Alberta point is related to and a variant of Eden /Scottsbluff points.  

AGE AND CULTURE :  Early Archaic, contemporary with Scottsbluff points.

DISTRIBUTION :  The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and parts of Idaho, Montana , North and South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska.

 

 

ALBERTA