Major patterns of damage location in Hunzicker Folsom replicas, showing concentration on tip and blade (from Hunzicker Reference Hunzicker2005:Figure 7).

Parts and Wholes: Reduction Allometry and Modularity in Experimental Folsom Points

Projectile points are a common subject of archaeological study. In the past decade, landmark-based geometric morphometrics (LGM) has increasingly been used to analyze points as whole objects. LGM and other studies document allometric changes in points—change in shape with change in size—as a product of resharpening. Allometry registers in part because different segments or modules of points…