Kinlock Arrowhead

Kinlock Arrowhead
Photo by Kenny Billings

May 14, 2009

This arrowhead is one of many prehistoric artifacts discovered by about 15 undergraduate and graduate students spending two weeks in the Mississippi Delta community of Kinlock as part of a summer archaeology field study course. The artifact-rich site, located along the Sunflower River, is from the archaic period and has a variety of relics thought to date back more than 2,500 years. Relics found include pottery shards, animal bones, and human and animal teeth.