Kirk Serrated

Name: Joffre L. Coe named the Kirk Serrated point from some 298 specimens recovered at the Hardaway site in North Carolina.

 Age: Coe estimated that these blades occurred slightly after the Kirk Corner Notched point at about 7000 to 8000 BP. Further research has placed them between 8000 and 8900 BP, generally marking the transition from corner notching to stemmed points.

 Description: The Kirk Serrated is a medium to large sized knife form ranging in length from 1.75 to 4 inches. The blade is normally heavy and is developed with broad flaking and finished with deep serration flakes along the edges. The blade edges are straight, convex or occasionally recurved and meet at an acute distal end. A bifacial flaking technique was used to form the serration during manufacture. The stem is straight and square with a flat or slightly incurvate basal edge. The basal edge may also be bifurcated. John Whatley noted that the basal edge may be slightly smoothed.

 Distribution: The Kirk Serrated type is distributed along Georgia’s Fall Line from Early to Burke counties northward into the Piedmont area.