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- Stone Knife
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Bifacial stone knife. Dimensions: 2 L x 13/16 W (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 233). - Scraper
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Endscraper made from gray petrified wood. Dimensions: 75 mm long. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument; on loan from Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Catalog No. 15448). - Projectile Point or Drill
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan (Pueblo II) Description: Large Pueblo II (PII)chert projectile point manufactured on a curved flake. Deeply side-notched with a convex base and a slightly compressed tip, the latter of which may have been reworked as a drill. Dimensions: 1 11/32 x 19/32 x 1/8 (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 2383). - Projectile Point
Cultural Period: Probably Archaic Description: Corner-notched point. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument. - Probable Rose Spring Point
Cultural Period: Early Ceramic Description: Probably Rose Spring Corner-notched point. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument. - Probable Rose Spring Point
Cultural Period: Early Ceramic Description: Probably Rose Spring Corner-notched point. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument. - Point Preform
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan (Pueblo II) Description: Chert/chalcedony Pueblo II (PII) middle-stage preform (a projectile point prior to side-notching). Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 937). - Expended Drill
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Expended chalcedony drill. Dimensions: 1 1/4 L x 5/8 W (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 244). - Eastgate Projectile Point
Cultural Period: Archaic Description: Red, gray, and white agate projectile point with one broken barb, tentatively identified as an Eastgate point. Dimensions: 2 L x 3/4 W (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 180). - Drill Fashioned from a Point
Cultural Period: Archaic/Ancestral Puebloan Description: This drill was knapped into the end of a chert Elko Corner-notched/San Pedro projectile point. This point style has a vast age range, but is typically considered Middle to Late Archaic. However, the drill could have been fashioned on an older point, so dating this particular artifact without contextual information, such as site location and stratigraphic positioning, would be very difficult, if not impossible. Dimensions: 1 3/8 L x 13/16 W x 3/16 T (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 35). - Drill
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Drill. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument. - Corner-notched Projectile Point
Cultural Period: Archaic Description: White/pink/orange chalcedony projectile point, Archaic in age, and identified as San Pedro/Elko Corner-notch. The tip has been repaired with glue. Dimensions: 2 3/4 L x 7/8 W (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 234). - Chert Biface or Point Fragment
Description: Chert biface or point fragment. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument. - Brown Chert Projectile Point
Cultural Period: Archaic Description: San Pedro/Elko Corner-notched brown chert point with serrated edges. Dimensions: 1 5/8 L x 13/16 W (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 235). - Bifacial Knife
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Bifacial brown chert knife. Dimensions: 3 L x 1 1/4 W (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 229).