6 - Projectile Points and Specialized Bifaces from the Horner Site

Abstract

This chapter describes the projectile points and specialized bifaces found at the Horner site. The 1977 and 1978, excavations by the University of Wyoming at the Horner site made it apparent that with the additional data, a more in-depth study should be undertaken, especially as many of the projectile points from the site did not seem to fit into the typological categories that have been described as occurring in the Cody Complex. All the materials recovered from the site since the start of work by a Princeton expedition in 1949 have been assembled. This has enabled a thorough reexamination and reevaluation to be made. The circumstances surrounding the context of many of the projectile points that were recovered from the Horner site before and during the Princeton excavations in 1949 have been extremely difficult to reconstruct. Quite a number of the specimens seem to have been collected from the surface in the general site vicinity and simply added to the collection. Because of this, it was deemed prudent to study only those pieces that undisputedly were recovered in a context indicating association with the site strata.