The Sterling Site: A Preliminary Study of the Lithic Assemblage of a Bonito Phase Pueblo Community

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Social Interaction and Networks at the Intersection of Central Mesa Verde and Chaco/Cibola Culture Areas in the Middle San Juan River Valley" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Sterling Site is an Ancestral Puebloan structure with related features located in the San Juan River watershed near Farmington, New Mexico. The site was excavated in the early 1970's by the Archaeological Society of New Mexico under the direction of Dr. Cynthia Irwin-Williams. The focus of this paper is the lithic assemblage recovered from the excavated rooms and other features of the site. The general composition of the assemblage will be discussed in relation to lithic materials and their sources, technological characteristics of the assemblage and character of the tools present. Comparisons will be made with other nearby sites of the same general Classic Bonito phase in this part of the San Juan basin.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Social Interaction and Networks at the Intersection of Central Mesa Verde and Chaco/Cibola Culture Areas in the Middle San Juan River Valley   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25014