The Saskatchewan Archaeological Society has published a new guide to arrowheads and other projectile points in Saskatchewan.
But, she added, it’s not uncommon to stumble across artifacts like arrowheads, spear points or even dart tips in Saskatchewan, especially on the prairies.“People have these personal collections,” said Playford. “It was a fairly popular pastime in the past.”
Saskatchewan’s plains have the most thoroughly documented historical chronology, but there is also a number of types of points discovered in the province’s northern Boreal forests — a region less studied in this corner of archeology, in part because of the terrain, but equally as important.Article content
The SAS laboured to make sure to include the entire breadth of documented points in the guide, said Playford, in the interest of being the most comprehensive resource possible. Artist and academic Audrey Dreaver talks about projectile points as works of art, and “how colonization really impacted the artistry and denigrated Indigenous art as primitive art.”digs into the details of creating projectile points, from strike physics to material selection.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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