Paleoindian Settlement and Mobility in the Northern Jornada del Muerto

Summary

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

The Northern Jornada del Muerto in Socorro County, New Mexico has long been known for its extensive Clovis and Folsom occupations. In addition to early Paleoindian techno-complexes, the Plainview/Goshen/Belen and Cody complexes are also well represented. This is mostly due to the work of Robert H. Weber, Ph.D. geologist and avocational archaeologist. For fifty years he discovered, mapped, documented, and collected artifacts from sites across Socorro and Catron Counties, and in 2008 the artifacts, notes, and maps in his collection were donated to the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe. The assemblage of over 750 Paleoindian projectile points and preforms from dozens of sites across the Northern Jornada del Muerto basin provides an excellent opportunity to examine diachronic change in a broad range of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene hunter-gatherer behaviors. After providing an overview of the Weber Collection this presentation will discuss variation in settlement and mobility patterns across Paleoindian techno-complexes.

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): 24888