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Flakescarred4life:
Hello everyone! So i'm new. I've been knapping for 2 years now and found someone who likes my work. I am by no means an expert in knapping,Native Americans, or identifying points. So when my potential first client requested that i make him a bunch of Apache style arrowheads, knife blades, spearheads, and atlatl points, I said "no problem". Except there is a problem... I can't find any tribe specific points. no matter what i type into google, it always gives me regional point styles. So, if anyone can help with this dilemma of mine, it would be greatly appreciated. 

Zuma:
There is very little tribal information on point type/style.
Archaeologically, most point types are done by  culture.
Paleo, Archaic ,Woodland, with some transitional aspects.
Up and until the advent of ceramics and farming most point
styles were very, very similar across America.
After that they became more regional.
Zuma

turbo:
If he said Apache arrows then you would have a lot to draw from; bow, arrows, quivers and all.

nclonghunter:
I believe the problem is putting it in a time frame. As Zuma said the different time periods for paleo, archaic, woodland will have stone tool manufacture but when you say Apache then you are past woodland and into modern native tribes that are greatly influenced by white mans trade. The Apache I would suspect is a more current name. Still old but not likely evn woodland period. Therefore the use of metal points and metal tools including copper wouls be appropiate. A study of Apache ancestral connection to the woodland period may help. Where did they come from? Having said that, I believe obsidian would be appropiate as well as metal points. I have not studied this and offer opinion just to help. Good luck on your search.

Chippintuff:
My understanding of the history of the Native Americans is that the arrival of European explorers a few hundred years ago brought European diseases. Those diseases almost wiped out the Native American population. The tribes and types of Native Americans we are familiar are the result of survivors getting together and establishing the new identities we are familiar with. As an example, mound "Indians" were found in much of the eastern US when the explorers arrived, but by pioneer days the Native Americans who lived in those places had little or no knowledge of the Mound folks. There are some exceptions to this such as the Anasazi Indians. They had some recollections.

Edit: My shallow knowledge of the matter has left me wondering why point types were regional when there were so many different types (appearances) of Native Americans. Did they associate by regions more than by ancestry? Did they have sprawling governments that dictated point types and probably other things over regions that had some diversity?

WA

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