How 'bout a glossary of terms/names of heads/ etc. .....

[bassflyer]

.... for some of us newbies.

Or is there one that I'm missing.

[rmartin]

The gallery has a very good representaion of point types. Ray.

[Aboman]

Here is Rowe's Glossary of Archaeological Terms-
glossary
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It was published last year as a part of Bennett's "Ancient Indian Artifacts Volume 1".

[rmartin]

Thanks for that Aboman. I had not seen this before. It is very informative. Ray.

[bassflyer]

Neat list ..... although I'm still looking for the meaning of "preform".

[arrow719]

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[bassflyer]

A preform is simply an unfinished artifact.

Thanks! That was my guess.

[TeamHenry]

Thanks Aboman and arrow. Good info there.

[uniface]

It's also sometimes a catch-all term for an artifact that could have been made into any of several different things depending on how it was worked further. An example would be an earlier stage biface, maybe used as a hand-held knife and a flake core, that could have been refined into a hafted point or a hafted knife, but wasn't.