This process produced a partial reconstruction — not a complete original object, since not all of the tip had remained in the wound channel, but enough of it to characterize the shape.

And the shape that emerged was unmistakable to anyone familiar with North American projectile point technology.

The reconstructed fragments formed the tip of an osseous projectile point — a bone weapon tip that had been deliberately shaped and worked to produce a functional hunting implement.

The tip was pointed, with a geometry consistent with the kind of penetrating tip used on hafted projectile points — the portion of the weapon that strikes the animal first and is designed to pierce hide and tissue.

The edges showed modification: the bone had been worked, not simply broken into a convenient shape, but intentionally ground or scraped to produce the specific taper and edge geometry that a functional weapon tip requires.