Bidspirit auction | Indigenous North American Prehistoric Lithic

Indigenous North American Prehistoric Lithic Set - This collection consists of approximately 29 prehistoric lithic artifacts representing various Indigenous North American stone tool technologies. The grouping features a range of diagnostic projectile point forms, including side-notched, corner-notched, and stemmed types. These specimens are hand-knapped through lithic reduction techniques, displaying percussion and pressure flaking scars, marginal retouching, and bifacial thinning. The materials comprise various silicate minerals such as chert, flint, jasper, and chalcedony in colors ranging from gray and black to tan, white, and reddish-brown. Tool types identified include arrowheads, spear tips, scrapers, and bifacial fragments. Notable within the group is a small biface shaped into a fish-form eccentric. Surface characteristics include varying degrees of patina and mineral staining. These typologies are characteristic of the Archaic through Woodland periods of North American prehistory.