Abstract

The gravely clay layer at the Hiscock site is dated to between ca. 11,000 and 10,200 B.P. In addition to the remains of fauna such as mastodon, peccary and California condor, that layer has yielded nine Paleo-Indian artifacts made mainly on local New York raw materials and including at least five fluted points. This paper focuses on the typological relationships of the points. As a whole, the points are morphologically homogeneous and fall within a general category of wider, thicker, more parallel-sided forms reported from several sites in the Northeast/Great Lakes. Detailed comparisons with other regional assemblages of a wide range of characteristics indicate the Hiscock points are different from named types in that general category such as Gainey in that they are relatively narrow at the base, have shallow basal concavities and debatably, are short-fluted. As a whole, they most closely resemble the finds reported from sites like Shoop, Pennsylvania and Paleo Crossing, Ohio.