Ground Stone as a Migration Marker: Using Finger-Grooved Manos and Fully Grooved Axe-Heads to Trace Kayenta Influence at Salado Sites.

Summary

The Salado phenomenon in southern New Mexico and Arizona includes a set of cultural traits that are believed to have been stimulated by the arrival of Kayenta migrants in the late 1200s from northern Arizona and southeastern Utah. Identifying the influence of these northern migrants at Salado sites has been one of the ongoing goals of Archaeology Southwest’s field excavations. In addition to perforated plates and certain architectural features, the presence of particular ground stone tools at Salado sites may serve as markers of Kayenta influence. Manos possessing finger grooves and axe-heads displaying a full groove are tool styles associated with Ancestral Pueblo peoples. The presence of these tools at the Dinwiddie site is further evidence of Kayenta influence in Cliff phase communities. Further analysis of the distribution of finger grooved manos and fully grooved axes among Cliff phase ground stone assemblages may lead to a better understanding of the dispersal of migrants and cultural influences associated with the rise of the Salado phenomenon.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New Perspectives on Salado   •
• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

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