A First Look at Western Stemmed Tradition Lithic Reduction and Procurement Strategies at Connley Cave 4, Oregon

Author(s): Megan Donham; Richard Rosencrance; Katelyn McDonough

Year: 2019

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Western Stemmed Tradition lithic assemblages are typically small at buried, Younger-Dryas aged sites throughout the Great Basin. Recent work at the Connley Caves, in the Fort Rock Basin of south-central Oregon, has uncovered a rich cultural assemblage containing projectile points, scrapers, flake tools, cores, abraders, gravers, and thousands of lithic detritus. This poster presents a debitage analysis of the Western Stemmed Tradition component at Connley Cave 4. Technological strategies are placed within the context of source provenance analysis of both tools and debitage to illuminate broader patterns of lithic reduction, procurement, and landscape use.

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A First Look at Western Stemmed Tradition Lithic Reduction and Procurement Strategies at Connley Cave 4, Oregon. Megan Donham, Richard Rosencrance, Katelyn McDonough. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449490)

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Keywords

General
Lithic Analysis • Material Culture and Technology • Paleoindian and Paleoamerican

Geographic Keywords
North America: California and Great Basin

Spatial Coverage

min long: -124.189; min lat: 31.803 ; max long: -105.469; max lat: 43.58 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 23350