Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Projectile Points

Projectile points preserve thousands of years of Indigenous skill, hunting technology, stone knowledge, movement, and exchange. Many pointed stone tools commonly called arrowheads were made for spears or atlatl darts rather than arrows. Projectile points are evidence of Indigenous engineering and knowledge across many generations. Reading them carefully avoids collapsing thousands of years of changing technology into the single modern label “arrowhead.” Projectile points preserve thousands of years of Indigenous skill, hunting technology, stone knowledge, movement, and exchange. Many pointed stone tools commonly called arrowheads...