Stone Age New York

          Perhaps the largest artifacts ever made (on a regular basis), by Native Americans are the Paleo Indian giant points. These huge stone sculptures were large versions of everyday stone tools used by Clovis and later generations of Paleo Indians. Why did they make them so big? Perhaps they were religious objects used in ceremonies. Another possibility could be that they were markers to tell the people that a certain location was special, for instance the entrance to a village, or the home of a chief, a priest or some other individual of high rank in a clan. There is also a chance that they were created to show the world that there was nothing that their masons couldn't do when it came to stonework. The sheer size and incredible detail of workmanship that was put into these megaliths would have been very impressive to anyone, a clan local or outsider that was viewing these objects for the first time. Potential enemies would have thought twice before starting a war with a people that could build and manage stone weapons and tools on this scale, and thus these great artifacts served as symbols of power.

Photo 1. Sunset over Genesee country.

Photo 2. Giant flared ear point. Point now serves as a memorial to the brave volunteer firefighters of Friendship, NY.

Photo 3. Artifact rotated 90 degrees to show similarity to smaller point.

Photo 4. Normal size of flared ear point.

Photo 5. Front of Friendship Volunteer Firefighters Memorial

Photo 6. Very large fluted tip point. Located in Cuba, NY.

Photo 7. Normal size of fluted tip point. This point is from western British Columbia.

Photo 8. Very large fluted tip point is located in parking lot of Nautical Research Guild, Cuba, NY.