American Arrowheads - Paperback

by Wm Jack Hranicky (Author)

This is a 500 -page black-and-white listing of over 2000 projectile point types in the U.S. It contains 1000+ photographs, description, time periods, and references. It makes a great "look-up" book for arrowheads. It is the most complete sources for arrowheads ever published. It is arranged from "A" to "Z" and contains listings for comparative point types. The archaeology goes from Paleoindian to the European Contact - 13,000 years.

Author Biography

Wm Jack Hranicky is a retired U.S. Government contractor, but has been involved with archaeology as a full-time passion for over 40 years. His main interest is the Paleo-Indian period; however, he has worked in all facets of American archaeology. He has published over 200 papers and over 40 books in archaeology with one being a two-volume, 800-page, 10,000 artifacts book on the material culture of Virginia. In Virginia, he is considered an expert on prehistoric stone tools and rockart. He has served as president of the Archeological Society of Virginia (ASV) and Eastern States Archeological Federation (ESAF), and been past chairman of the Alexandria Archaeology Commission. He is director of the Virginia Rockart Survey and (formerly) the McCary Fluted Point Survey. And, he is former president of the Alexandria Radio Club. He is a past president of the ASV's Northern Virginia Chapter. His most recent completed archaeological investigation and excavation was the Spout Run solar observatory site in Clarke County, Virginia. He established it as a solstice ceremonial site which has a date of 10,470 years ago. It is the oldest above ground prehistoric site in North America. He excavated the Arkfeld site in Frederick County, Virginia, which is a Pleistocene site. He did his undergraduate work at Virginia Commonwealth University and graduate studies at the University of Oklahoma and American University. And, only writes with a fountain pen.