Calgary & Southern Alberta
Weapons and Other Tools
Used in Pre-European Contact Time
Atlalt: used as an extention of the arm to lauch a shafted projectile known as a dart.
Used as early as 7000 B.P.
The bow and fletched arrow used after 2000 B.P.
The binding of projectile points.
A. Agate Basin Point
B. Scotsbluff Point
C. Eden Point
D. Alberta Point
Clovis projectile point: "flute" style 11,800 B.P. to 10,000 B.P.
Used by big-game hunters.
Oxbow arrowhead: for use with the bow and arrow 2000 B.P. until historical contact.
Images courtesy of the
Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba and Knappers Anonymous
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