Haskett Chronology and Its Relationship to Other North American Technocomplexes

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Haskett projectile points are well known in the Great Basin, but until recently their precise age has been considered poorly understood. Outside of the Great Basin, few researchers know of Haskett or consider it an important facet of the late Pleistocene cultural landscape. Archaeologists outside the Far West have recently used Bayesian chronological modeling to create high-resolution estimates for the beginnings, ends, durations, and overlap of times when people made Clovis and Folsom points. In this paper I take a similar approach to modeling the age of the Haskett technocomplex. I compile and evaluate existing radiocarbon dates at Haskett sites and obtain new dates from multiple components and sites, all of which is then modeled in a Bayesian framework. Finally, I compare my Haskett chronology with a compilation of other radiocarbon dated technocomplexes to provide a more encompassing picture of cultural and lithic diversity across North America during the Pleistocene. My model indicates Haskett is a Folsom contemporary and likely appeared during Clovis times. It is also the oldest of all shoulderless stemmed points in North America and may represent the antecedent to all other forms, as suggested by the age and geographic distribution of Haskett and other complexes.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35868.0