Using Contracting Stem Projectile Points to Inform Human Mobility in the Great Basin and Greater American Southwest

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This poster presents the results of an investigation of differences in contracting stem point shape across the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and greater American Southwest. Contracting stem points from 17 locations or areas consisting of both excavated sites and surface collections were used. By comparing the occurrences of tightly constrained projectile point shape; i.e., variations in shape of less than 6%, defined by 13 measurements, patterns of occurrences of the point shapes are seen that may inform the movement of groups and possible interactions between groups in the study area.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

Keywords

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 51015