The Paleoecology of the Mockingbird Gap Clovis site, New Mexico and Surrounding Region

Author(s): Marcus Hamilton

Year: 2019

Summary

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

In this paper I discuss recent work at the Mockingbird Gap Clovis site, New Mexico, and the surrounding region. Our goal was to understand how Clovis hunter-gatherers utilized and adapted to the regional landscape and its available resources. Focusing on lithic raw material use, I show that the Clovis occupants of Mockingbird Gap had access to a wide diversity of high quality raw materials from a large area of the Southwest. Moreover, Clovis raw material network analysis across the continent suggests that Mockingbird Gap was an important link between the Southwest and Southern Highs Plains. This work shows that Clovis people in this region of the Southwest had an extensive and specific knowledge of the landscapes around them, and may well have had connections to other Clovis peoples in neighboring regions.

Cite this Record

The Paleoecology of the Mockingbird Gap Clovis site, New Mexico and Surrounding Region. Marcus Hamilton. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 451370)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -123.97; min lat: 25.958 ; max long: -92.549; max lat: 37.996 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 25755