A Brief Description of Helen Lookingbill's Southern Sublette County Collection

Summary

The Southern Sublette collection represents an array of characteristics within the Scottsbluff and Eden styles of the Cody Complex. There is also clear evidence of individual knapping styles within the identified cultural styles which can be attributed to the idiosyncratic behavior and technological constraints of the flint knapper and that person’s own level of expertise and choice of material. Because of the surface nature of each individual artifact found, lack of geologic context or available stratigraphy (and the lack of related cultural, floral or faunal material for interpretation), there exists the inability to make any geologic or spatial analyses of the collection. Because each artifact was a separate surface find, this leaves room only for descriptive analyses and categorization of morphological traits, as presented here. The most significant observation comes from the wide range of variation represented in the projectile point morphology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Wyoming Archaeologist 2000

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Contact(s): Marcia Peterson

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