Whence Windust: Updates on the Distribution and Chronology of Square Base Stemmed Projectile Points in the Northern Great Basin

Summary

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

The Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) is the predominant late Pleistocene and early Holocene lithic tradition in the Great Basin. It features long- and short-stemmed projectile point types including Haskett, Cougar Mountain, and Parman. Square base Windust points are often assigned to the WST, but it remains unclear if and how they are related to these other point forms. In this paper, I review the age and distribution of square base Windust points in northern Nevada and southeastern Oregon, where extensive archaeological survey and excavations offer an opportunity to evaluate current models of when and from where the technology originated. My results shed new light on the place of square base points in the WST and as a proxy for relationships between Great Basin people and neighboring groups.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

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

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Abstract Id(s): 53242