Levy

Name: Ripley Bullen named the type for Levy County, Florida.

Age: At the Lake Kanapaha site in Alachua County, Florida, Levy points were recovered at pre-ceramic levels and were estimated by Bullen to date between 7000 and 4000 BP.[1] In Georgia, many researchers agree with John Whatley in classifying these points with the Savannah River point.

Description: Examples measure from 2 to 4.5 inches in length. The blade edges are excurvate with an acute distal end. The barbs are drooping and the shoulders meet the stem with a sweeping curve. The cross-section is lenticular. The stem is tapered with a flat to incurvate basal edge.  The distinguishing points that separate the Levy from the Savannah River is the narrower, tapering stem of the Levy, its drooping barb, and the broad arc of the juncture of the stem and the shoulders of the blade.

Distribution: Levy points are widely distributed throughout Florida and northward across Georgia’s Coastal Plain to the Fall line.

[1] Schroder, Lloyd E, The Anthropology of Florida Points and Blades, CafePress, 2006, page 80