By identifying the point types found in association with burials or in the layers of sediment overlying a site, archaeologists can often assign a rough age to a deposit even before radiocarbon dates are available.

The projectile point assemblages from Bering Sinkhole and other Early Archaic Texas sites show the forms that have been dated elsewhere to the early Holocene — the time just after the great Pleistocene extinctions, when the people of the Texas region were making the transition from the megafauna-hunting lifestyles of the Paleoindian period to the diversified subsistence economies of the Archaic.

These stone tools were not merely practical objects.

They were the products of considerable skill.