Folsom Technological Organization at the Martin Site, Central New Mexico

Summary

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

The Martin site is a Folsom encampment located in the Estancia Basin, New Mexico. It was briefly described in a 1967 dissertation, and the resulting assemblage was later re-analyzed in the early 2000s. Previous studies have noted a preponderance of Edwards chert in the assemblage, sourced to over 600 km away in west central Texas, as well as an emphasis on projectile point production. This paper presents data from a formerly unexamined assemblage derived from University of New Mexico field school excavations in 2011. Paired with previous data, new analyses can help to better situate the Martin site within current models of Folsom technological organization. These results are then compared to other Folsom sites in central New Mexico to understand flexibility in Folsom mobility strategies throughout the basin and range province during the Late Pleistocene.

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): 23258