Bakers Creek

Name: James Cambron named the Bakers Creek from examples recovered at the type site near the mouth of Bakers Creek in Morgan County, Alabama.Ripley Bullen named smaller examples of this type Taylor points and larger examples (like figures 4,5, &6) Broward points in Florida.

Age: A total of 359 examples were recovered from the Swift Creek site (9Bi3) near Macon, Georgia in association with Deptford and Swift Creek ceramics.Associated dates ranged between 150 and 175 AD.Dates from the Manderville site in Clay county fell between 1500 and 2000 BP where they were also recovered with Deptford and Swift Creek ceramics.Pluckhahn reported dates between 1650 and 1550 BP at Kolomoki (Whatley 2002:18).Cambron suggested a slightly wider Middle Woodland range of dates (Cambron & Hulse 1990:6).

Description: The Bakers Creek is a medium size point ranging between 29-55 mm (1 and 2.25 inches) in length.The blade is triangular with straight to slightly excurvate edges and an acute distal end.The cross section is lenticular.Shoulders are square and only slightly wider than the stem.The stem is expanding to a flat basal edge.

Distribution: The type is widely distributed across Georgia from below the Fall Line to the extreme north-western counties. Snow indicated that these points were replaced by spike forms in Swift Creek sites in southern Georgia (Snow 1977).

Information for this article was derived from James W. Cambron and David C. Hulse, Handbook of Alabama Archaeology, Alabama Archaeological Society

Maps were developed by Lloyd Schroder