MOTLEY, Haag (Ford, Phillips and Haag, 1955): A-109
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The Motley point is a medium sized, expanded stem point with broad side or corner notches and straight blade edges.
MEASUREMENTS: Eight examples, including the illustrated specimen, from North Alabama and the southern part of Tennessee provided the following measurements and features: length—maximum, 71 mm.; minimum, 50 mm.; average, 60 mm.: shoulder width—maximum, 32 mm.; minimum, 27 mm.; average, 29 mm.: stem width at base—maximum, 26 mm.; minimum, 18 mm.; average, 22 mm.: stem width at narrowest point—maximum, 14 mm.; minimum, 11 mm.; average, 12 mm.: stem length—maximum, 17 mm.; minimum, 14 mm.; average, 15 mm.: thickness—maximum, 10 mm.; minimum, 7 mm.; average, 8 mm.
FORM: The cross-section may be biconvex or flattened. Shoulders may be horizontal, tapered, or inversely tapered. Blade edges are more apt to be straight but may be slightly excurvate, or one edge may be straight and the other excurvate. The distal end is acute. The stem is expanded and formed by broad deep side or corner notches. Several examples have one corner notch and one side notch. The side edges of the stem are incurvate and the base is usually straight. It is usually thinned, but rarely ground.
FLAKING: Shallow to deep random flaking was used to shape the faces. The blade edges are usually retouched by removal of short and fairly deep flakes. Large deep flakes were removed to form the notches, usually followed by secondary flaking along the stem and shoulder edges. Local materials were used.
COMMENTS: The Motley point was named from the Motley Place in northeastern Louisiana. The illustrated example is from Cambron Site 301 in Limestone County, Alabama. Bell (1958) states, "The type is best represented from the Poverty Point Culture in the lower Mississippi Valley" where radiocarbon dates range from about 1300 B. C. up to 200 B. C. It is also present in the Archaic sites of Kentucky, Alabama, and Illinois. It is similar to Normanskill points of New York (Ritchie, 1961). The type has been referred to locally as Sugar Creek. At Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter (DeJarnette, Kurjack and Cambron, 1962), five examples were recovered from the top three levels and one from Level 6. At the University of Alabama Site Ms 201 in Marshall County, Alabama, one example each was recovered from Levels 3 and 4. At Flint River Mound (Webb and DeJarnette, 1948a) two examples were taken from Zone A (Woodland), five from Zone B (Woodland) and one from Zone C (Archaic). This evidence indicates a strong early Woodland association with a beginning in Archaic times.
MOUNTAIN FORK, Cambron (This Paper): A-114
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: This is a small, narrow, thick, stemmed point.