Stanly Stemmed

This stone projectile point is known as a Stanly Stemmed, and it was found at a multi-component site (31WA2199) in eastern Wake County, NC. This type of artifact was used as a spear or dart point and may have been secondarily used as a knife and/or scraping tool. Stanly points have been recovered archaeologically at several deeply buried sites, including the important Doerschuk site, where it was found stratigraphically below Morrow Mountain and Guilford type points indicating it dates to the first part of the Middle Archaic period (c. 6000-3000 BC). This artifact is made from a metavolcanic stone commonly called rhyolite and measures 5.35 cm long, 4.3 cm wide, and 1.1 cm thick. This model was constructed by David Cranford with 50 photos using the Agisoft Metashape software. (Credit: NCDNCR/OSA) Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab