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TheBare Island projectile point is a stoneprojectile point of prehistoricindigenous peoples of North America. It was named by Fred Kinsey in 1959 for examples recovered at the Kent-Halley site on Bare Island inPennsylvania.
Area of distribution covers most of the upper Eastern Seaboard. The type was used during the lateArchaic throughWoodland periods. These points are generally found in theLower Susquehanna River Valley inMaryland, but are also found to the north in New Jersey, and to the northwest in southern and eastern New York and western Pennsylvania.[1]
The type was used during the lateArchaic throughWoodland period. They have mostly been dated to the lateArchaic period in North America, 3000-1000 BCE.[1]
The point is a medium to large sized, narrow, thick stemmed projectile or knife with tapered shoulders. One shoulder is higher than the other and the blade is convex to straight. The stem is parallel to expanding. It is similar to the Little Bear Creek point in the southeast.
Bare Island points sizes range from 1.2 in length to 3.8 inches with an average of somewhat over 2 inches in length. They have straight stems and straight bases, and are generally 2 to 3 times longer than they are wide.[1]