Regional Influences on Cliff Phase Ground Stone in the Upper Gila Area
Author(s): Jonathan Schaefer; Leslie Aragon
Year: 2018
Summary
Regional Influences on Cliff Phase Ground Stone in the Upper Gila Area
Jonathan Schaefer and Leslie Aragon
Ground stone tools are a productive means of studying subsistence and technology practices in the American Southwest. Excavations at the Gila River Farm Site and other nearby settlements have provided a large collection of ground stone objects used for various tasks. Here, we evaluate the use of the tools from these sites and compare their morphology to tools recovered elsewhere in the Kayenta and Mogollon areas. Regional and temporal variations in ground stone characteristics provide insights into how earlier archaeological traditions influenced ground stone tool morphology in the Cliff phase in southwest New Mexico.
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Regional Influences on Cliff Phase Ground Stone in the Upper Gila Area. Jonathan Schaefer, Leslie Aragon. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444777)
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Keywords
General
Lithic Analysis
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Material Culture and Technology
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Mogollon
Geographic Keywords
North America: Southwest United States
Spatial Coverage
min long: -124.365; min lat: 25.958 ; max long: -93.428; max lat: 41.902 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 21617