Sourcing the Obsidian Haskett Projectile Points recovered from the Haskett Type Site (10PR37) in Lake Channel, Idaho

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From Channel Flakes to Bison Jumps: Current Investigations of the Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Archaeological Record in Southern Idaho" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Ten Haskett-style obsidian projectile points from the Haskett Family’s collection associated with 10PR37, including specimens assigned as Butler’s Type 1 and Type 2, were recently analyzed via X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Cultural Resource Management Office (CRMO). These efforts were performed to identify and assign geologic sources to a significant assemblage of projectile points that have not been subjected to XRF before now. Results of the analysis will be integrated with other Haskett sourcing data from the Desert West to gain a better understanding of obsidian conveyance during the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene, as well provide insights into ancestral Shoshone and Bannock lifeways and mobility.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• From Channel Flakes to Bison Jumps: Current Investigations of the Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Archaeological Record in Southern Idaho

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Abstract Id(s): 53179