A Messenger From the Past This small and beautiful projectile point was found near present day Port Alsworth. Learn more about work at the site on our blog, Our Stories and Perspectives, Archaeology at the Mount Air Historic Site. Projectile point, around 5 cm long and 2 cm wide at widest point. Because of this discovery, we can begin to tell a more complete story about the park and the people who lived there throughout its history.įishtail Point Recovered by FCPA Archaeologists. These types of points are known to have been made by Native Americans in Virginia during the Early Woodland period, between 1200 and 500 BCE. Projectile weapons allow their user to inflict a lethal wound from a safe distance. The archaeologists discovered Piscataway and Fishtail projectile points. Throughout the 9,000-year span of the Archaic era, hunters used stemmed projectile points of varying styles, sizes, and forms to tip their weapons.The rather radical change in weaponry style from the more-streamlined lanceolate points used throughout most of the preceding Paleoindian era marks a distinctive technological shift. In one location, the archaeologists identified deposits much older than those for which the property is best known. Unfortunately, prior to it becoming a park, the manor house burned.Īrchaeology and Collection Branch archaeologists recently conducted excavations on the Mount Air property to better understand the site, recovering artifacts from the 1700s through modern times. Ancient projectile points have been well known in Midwestern America since we began to plow them up from beneath our farm fields nearly 200 years ago. It passed down through generations, was only sold outside the family once, and then acquired by the Fairfax County Park Authority. The Mount Air mansion was built by the prominent McCarty family in the mid-1700s. Morphological typologies of projectile points in North America have often been employed a prehistoric cultural markers. The Mount Air Historic Site is best known for its former mansion, but a recent discovery is providing insight into a far distant past. Piscataway Point Recovered by FCPA Archaeologists.
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