October 2018 Program: A GROUND SLATE POINT FOUND ON THE HUDSON RIVER ESTUARY

Program following the October 2018 Chapter meeting:

A GROUND SLATE POINT FOUND ON THE HUDSON RIVER ESTUARY

by

John Phillips 

In October 2016 a polished, notched slate biface was found by the author on the east shore of the Hudson River, 25 miles north of Manhattan.

Subsequent inquiries about this anomalous find led to a re-examination of slate as a tool stone, the manufacture and physical properties of slate bifaces, the distribution of slate projectile points and blades in Northeastern North America, and theories about the technology’s origin.