Evaluation of Occupation History using Comparative Lithic Analysis at the Point Pueblo LA 8619, San Juan County, New Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Point Site, LA 8619, is located along the San Juan River in San Juan County, New Mexico. LA 8619 is a multicomponent site within the Point Community of the Middle San Juan Tradition. Based upon preliminary ceramic analysis, the occupation at the Point Pueblo dates from the AD 900s to abandonment in AD 1300, by Totah, Chaco, and Mesa Verde cultural horizons. Recent San Juan College field school excavations focusing on four large multistory rooms in the Great House, have yielded a quantity of lithic materials including projectile points, axes, ground stone, cores, formal and informal tools, debitage, and exotic artifacts. Multicomponent analysis of the lithic artifacts from the Great House seeks to establish the presence and duration of the three cultural occupations, each with distinctive lithic traditions. This multicomponent analysis provides analysis of the Great House lithic assemblage, complemented by independent analysis of ceramic artifacts from the Point Pueblo. The results of the analysis are then compared with the contemporaneous Tommy Site and Sterling Pueblo sites, in order to evaluate the extent of the Totah, Chacoan, and Mesa Verde occupations in the Middle San Juan area.

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• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 32741