Remake of Dark Pre-Choctaw Little Bear Creek-Type Projectile Point Arrowhead, 2,500 BC

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This is a remake of "Dark Pre-Choctaw Little Bear Creek-Type Projectile Point Arrowhead, 2,500 BC" by dricketts July 08, 2016 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1664913). Printing the original as a singular piece requires quite a bit of use of supports. I'm not great with supports, so my prints come out with a lot of blemishes I can't fix post-production. This is a shame for such an accurate recreation/rendering of an impressive handmade artifact that could be as old as 4,500 years. To minimize the use of supports, I rotated the rendering slightly to get the cutting edges into approximately the same horizontal plane and sliced it along that plane into two pieces. There are still 2-3 very slight overhangs, but these are now very minimal. I still print with supports, which are now very tiny and very easy to remove with almost no blemishes to the important surfaces. The two pieces glue together to create a singular projectile point. BTW, I inserted a hole at the shaft end for a different application. However, I left it in these files as it provides an excellent reference point when gluing the pieces together. A round toothpick can be inserted to ensure perfect alignment of the shaft end.