ABSTRACT
A method is developed that allows for recording non-traditional size variables for hafted bifaces using computer technology. Application of the method is demonstrated using a sample of hafted bifaces with bifurcated bases which were recovered from several sites excavated as part of the Tellico Archaeological Project. These quantitative measures are used to define a series of shape related variables. This combination of size and shape data are used in the examination of both typological and morphological aspects of the sample. Our analysis suggests that the traditional subdivisions of bifurcate-base hafted biface types are not as distinctive as previously suggested. The specimens examined appear to lie along a continuum of morphological change. An examination of blade symmetry also revealed differences in the types which suggests some were used more often as knives than projectile points. This investigation of morphology, technology, and resharpening would have been difficult, if not impossible, without the use of computer technology.
