A Previously Unreported Clovis Point from Michigan	by William Moody
Central States Archaeological Societies 2023 April Journal	West Tisbury, Massachusetts

Figure 1. Mike Hollar is shown with the entire cache he found on the floor in front of him in the April 1972 issue of Artifacts.

Over 30 years ago, the author was visiting a close friend in Michigan who is an ardent bowhunter and an occasional collector of prehistoric artifacts. Alfred Gemrich lives in the countryside in south-central Michigan on a farm of some 200 acres that has been gradually reforested under his care. His property borders Cedar Creek, and from time to time the land has given up a random projectile point when bare ground was exposed.

Many of Gemrich’s neighbors in years past had active farms in the immediate area, and the Leinaar family farm just to his west included two members of the family who actively collected artifacts on their properties. Boyd Leinaar eventually gifted to Gemrich a small box of artifacts he had personally recovered. Included among these was the Clovis point pictured in Figures 1 and 2.

This fluted biface is ...

 

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Figure 2. The largest blade of the cache shown full size. Collection of the Author