Cove Creek Clovis? Exploring Fluted-Point Assemblages in the Eastern Great Basin

Summary

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

Despite its prominence in Paleoindian archaeology throughout much of North America, Clovis has long been overshadowed in the Great Basin by the potentially contemporary, and locally more prolific, Western Stemmed Tradition. Despite decades of research, the relationship between the two distinct techno-complexes remains unclear. Largely due to difficulties related to dating and the general rarity of buried sites, the nature of Clovis in the region is particularly poorly understood. In 2021 and 2022, a reinvestigation was conducted in Cove Creek, Utah, at a rare concentration of sites (42MD1341, 42MD1404, 42MD2502, 42MD2535, 42MD2604, 42MD2645, and 42MD3117), where original investigators reported surficial Clovis and/or Western Stemmed diagnostic materials and noted the potential for buried deposits. Over two years, approximately 3,000 artifacts were collected from surface surveys at six sites and an additional 100 from test pits excavated at three sites. Here, the preliminary results of the surface surveys, test excavations, and material analyses are reported.

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): 41485.0