VERMONT NORTHLAND JOURNAL, Volume 3, Number 5, Issue 29, August 2004, by Scott Wheeler, pages 9-13: 1998 Paleoindian Spear Point Found in Derby, VT Estimated at about 10,000 Years Old A spear point found by two young Derby [Vermont] girls this summer may help archaeologists write a new chapter in the history of Native Americans in Vermont. Celie Dagesse, age eight, and Emily Wheeler, seven, were sifting through rocks in Lake Salem when they found what state archeologists with the Division of Historic Preservation have identified as a clovis-like fluted projectile point from the Paleoindian Period. The stone point is between 9,000 and 10,000 years old, and possibly older. <precept> Bea Nelson, a member of the Alnobak Nebesakiak Abenaki community based in Derby, Vermont, ... said, 'Lake Salem is referred to as Lake Abenaki in some local history books.' <precept> Mr. Scott Dillon, a state survey archaeologist said, 'it could have been used to hunt caribou. It was either thrown as a spear of with an atlatl, a stick used to propel a short spear through the air to its intended target. The point was made of chert, a shale based rock, that is native to only such far away places as Maine and Pennsylvania.' <precept> Ms. Giovanna Peebles, the state's archaeologist may be contacted at (802) 828-3050. Transcribed by Jan Jordan