The Dalton Period occurred during the transition from the last ice age to the beginning of the Holocene (Recent) age. Studies of stone tools from Arkansas’s Dalton sites have provided many insights into the lives of these hunter-gatherers during the transition from the last ice age to the modern era. The internationally famous Sloan site in Greene County is a Dalton Period cemetery and the oldest documented cemetery in the western hemisphere. Excavations at the Brand and Sloan sites and surface collections of many other sites in northeast Arkansas provide a wealth of information about the Dalton culture in northeast Arkansas. As Dalton points were found in different regions of the mid-continent, they were given different names, such as Holland, Meserve, Greenbrier, Colbert, Hardaway, and Breckenridge. Evidence of the Dalton culture has been found throughout the Mississippi River Valley. The Dalton point was named after Judge Sidna Poage Dalton, who had found numerous Dalton sites in central Missouri. The name “Dalton” was first used in 1948 to refer to a style of chipped stone projectile point/knife. The Dalton Period extends from 10,500 to 9,900 radiocarbon years ago (circa 8500 to 7900 BC), during which there existed a culture of ancient Native American hunter-gatherers (referred to as the Dalton people) who made a distinctive set of stone tools that are today found at sites across the middle of the United States.
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