Questioning Clovis in Southeast Utah: Late in the Game or Transitional?

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Paleoindian Southwest" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This presentation provides a summary of what is currently known for the Lime Ridge Clovis site, as well as more recent data on Clovis sites, or components thereof, from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah. The data are fleeting, but suggest a trend comparable to the adjacent Nevada and Arizona regions for diminished size and boldness in blade manufacture, knapping style, and the resulting tools, which raises the question of at which point do we no longer call these Clovis. Included are discussions of raw stone material sources, potential diagnostics in the absence of finished points, knapping technology, including approaches to fluting points, and patterns of landscape use. The combined data potentially suggest a migration to upland locations within the Glen Canyon region at the end of the Clovis era, and a population sustained long enough in that location to have certain knapping characteristics show with regularity into succeeding periods, but direct dating is still needed to verify.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• The Paleoindian Southwest

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Abstract Id(s): 23437