This article presents an analysis of a single find of an Early Archaic Virginia toolkit containing Nottoway River point types and associated tools. The toolkit offers an excellent opportunity to examine a probable single-user toolkit as well as to determine what tools constitute the toolkit make-up. The toolkit is described and illustrated. The single-user aspects and implications for an analysis of an individual in prehistory are examined.
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