A New Look at Flaked Stone Projectiles from the Mixter Site (33-ER-4), Erie County, Ohio, USA

ABSTRACT

The Mixter site (33-ME-4), Erie County, Ohio, is a multicomponent site first reported in 1967. We re-examined the Mixter site projectile point assemblage to understand which types were present, whether there were Paleoindian points at the site, and whether the projectile points can reveal anything about site use through time. Our assessment revealed an occupation spanning the entire Holocene, a possible Clovis component, and that artifact breakage and discard pattern did not change over time at the site. Given that our new look at the projectile point assemblage differed significantly from Shane’s (1967, The Mixter Site: a Multicomponent Hunting Station in Erie County, Ohio. In O. Prufer & D. McKenzie (Eds.), Studies in Ohio Archaeology (pp. 121–186). Cleveland: The Press of Western Reserve University) original report, we conclude our study with a discussion on reproducibility in archaeological science.

KEYWORDS:

• Projectile points
• Ohio
• reproducibility

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributors

Richard Haythorn completed his B.A. at Kent State University and in Fall 2018 will be an M.A./Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tulsa.

Briggs Buchanan is Associate Professor at the University of Tulsa.

Metin I. Eren is Director of Archaeology and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Kent State University.

ORCID

Metin I. Eren http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3576-6076

Additional information

Funding

MIE is supported by the Kent State University College of Arts and Sciences and MIE and BB are supported by the National Science Foundation (Award IDs: 1649395 and 1649409).