Spoke with a professor in San Angelo about a point I'd found. He indicted that "generally speaking," crude points were newer in age than really artistically made points. His reasoning was that in native American cultures, there might only be one or two really good knappers in a village and the rest of the village traded meat and goods for his points. Once steel became available from trade with whites, knapping sort of went by the wayside and the really crude looking points were cobbled together by hunters who weren't really good at it, but needed something to put at the end of an arrow in a hurry. He also suggested that often times really crude looking points were burial artifacts. They were rough shaped with the belief that the brave would need something quick in the afterlife. They didn't take the time to spruce up the points and knives they left for him.
Don't know if his theory is correct or not.
"It's a source of great pride, that when I google my name, I find book titles and not mug shots." Daniel C. Chamberlain
