Hafting element

The base of a point shaped to fit a shaft or handle: the notches, stem, basal ears and grinding. Typologies classify chiefly by the haft because it changed with fashion while the blade changed with resharpening.

Sources

Justice, N. D. (1987). Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Midcontinental and Eastern United States. Indiana
Projectile Points of the Americas — type database (link only)

Cite this article

Stratum Strata. "Hafting element" (Glossary). Stratum Strata pack 2026.09, as of 2026-09-16. https://stratum.black/strata/glossary/haft. Accessed 2026-09-21.

BibTeX · CSL-JSON

@misc{stratum-haft,
  title        = {Hafting element},
  author       = {{Stratum Strata}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://stratum.black/strata/glossary/haft}},
  year         = {2026},
  note         = {Glossary article, Stratum Strata pack 2026.09, as of 2026-09-16; sources: stratum. Accessed 2026-09-21.}
}

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