Benton Points, Turkey Tails, and Cache Blades: Middle Archaic Exchange in the Midsouth

Abstract

One of the earliest and most extensive distribution systems in the Southeast centers on the Tennessee River Valley during the Middle Archaic. The high quality tabular chert which is exposed in the shoals and slopes of the middle Tennessee River in northern Alabama was transformed into a distinctive stemmed biface, a preform type that appears to have been made for export and large, extremely well made bifaces which were probably never intended to be utilitarian. This paper traces the distribution of artifacts and raw material from the extensive source area quarry sites south into the Coastal Plain and discusses coincident

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