Governor Martin
O'Malley has proclaimed April Maryland Archeology Month, and the Maryland
Historical Trust is pleased to be leading the celebration! With its many
treasured sites, including Fort Frederick, the U.S.S. Scorpion, St. Mary's
City, Piscataway Park, and the recently located Zekiah Fort, Maryland is truly
rich archeologically.
This year's Maryland
Archeology Month theme, Points
in Time: Formal Biface Typology in Maryland, focuses attention on
certain artifacts rather than the sites on which they are found. Of all the
bits of antiquity strewn across Maryland over the past 13 millennia perhaps
none is more iconic that the arrowhead. Yet only a tiny fraction of the items
popularly termed "arrowhead" ever tipped a bow-shot arrow. Most were
spear points, and many were hafted knives. While differing in function, all
projectile points (as archeologists commonly refer to them) have something
important in common; each reflects a style that was used for a restricted
period of time, ranging from several thousand to several hundred years. As a
result, the classification of these artifacts has been a favorite endeavor of
archeologists for many decades.
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