No Stone Unturned: Rock Technology from the Basketmaker Communities Project

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The stone artifacts recovered from the Basketmaker Communities Project study area in southwestern Colorado resemble broader technological and social trends documented in the San Juan region during the Basketmaker III time period on the Colorado Plateau. Do the residents of the BCP study area represent a convergence of Western and Eastern Basketmaker II populations? In this paper, we examine the variation in chipped and ground stone technologies from the BCP and use these data to attempt some clarity on the origins of the residents of the study area. Lithic materials recovered from the Dillard community center and smaller Basketmaker sites represent not only adaptation to local resources but suggest interactions and social connections with the greater Southwest. Stone technologies represented at these sites suggest some continuity with Basketmaker II populations in the area and the beginnings of Pueblo social and material culture.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24878