Perishable Artifacts from Rockshelters and Caves in the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico and Texas: Dating and Stylistic Study of Sandals, Baskets, Matting, and Cordage from Early Twentieth-Century Excavations

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Office of Contract Archeology at the University of New Mexico is performing investigations of organic artifacts from two caves and seven rockshelters in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas. These caves (Burnet Cave, LA 101435, and Hermit’s Cave, LA 4992) and rockshelters were excavated in the early twentieth century, and minimal stratigraphic information was recorded for these stratified deposits. Additionally, no chronometric dating has previously been performed on sites that include potential Paleoindian and Early Archaic occupations as the earliest uses of these shelters. OCA reports AMS dates for samples of organic artifacts from these locations curated at multiple museums and facilities that include sandals, baskets, matting, cordage, quids, raw material bundles, and several kinds of wooden artifacts. OCA has also recorded updated descriptive data on these items that include raw materials, production techniques, and conservative functional inferences. These data are presented to help provide chronological data about these shelters, to update information about this regional sample of organic artifacts, and to address stylistic variation in weaving methods for the large sample of sandals and basketry fragments.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 41681.0