Artifacts
by Jonathan D. Till and Scott G. Ortman |
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Table 44. Grouped Chipped-Stone Tools and Debitage, by Material Type, Sand Canyon Pueblo | ||||||||
Formal Toolsa | Cores and Core Toolsb | Expedient Toolsc | Debitage | |||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Local Materials | ||||||||
Dakota chert/siltstone | 1 | 0.0 | ||||||
Dakota quartzite | 121 | 51.1 | 58 | 7.6 | 71 | 13.9 | 2,451 | 10.2 |
Morrison chert/siltstone | 26 | 11.0 | 283 | 37.2 | 230 | 45.0 | 3,842 | 15.9 |
Morrison quartzite | 10 | 4.2 | 379 | 49.8 | 171 | 33.5 | 16,749 | 69.5 |
Igneous | 2 | 0.3 | 180 | 0.7 | ||||
Conglomerate | 3 | 0.0 | ||||||
Quartz | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
Sandstone | 181 | 0.8 | ||||||
Slate/shale | 1 | 0.0 | ||||||
Local | 14 | 0.1 | ||||||
Semilocal Materials | ||||||||
Agate/chalcedony | 30 | 12.7 | 2 | 0.3 | 4 | 0.8 | 61 | 0.3 |
Petrified wood | 7 | 3.0 | 5 | 1.0 | 8 | 0.0 | ||
Nonlocal Materials | ||||||||
Obsidian | 4 | 1.7 | 6 | 0.0 | ||||
Washington Pass chert | 2 | 0.8 | 2 | 0.4 | 7 | 0.0 | ||
Nonlocal chert/siltstone | 11 | 4.6 | 1 | 0.1 | 6 | 1.2 | 81 | 0.3 |
Nonlocal | 10 | 0.0 | ||||||
Unknown Materials | ||||||||
Unknown chert/siltstone | 24 | 10.1 | 24 | 3.2 | 20 | 3.9 | 306 | 1.3 |
Unknown quartzite | 2 | 0.8 | 9 | 1.2 | 2 | 0.4 | 30 | 0.1 |
Unknown stone | 2 | 0.3 | 174 | 0.7 | ||||
TOTAL | 237 | 100.0 | 761 | 100.0 | 511 | 100.0 | 24,106 | 100.0 |
a Projectile points, bifaces, and drills. b Cores, modified cores, and peckingstones. c Modified flakes and "other chipped-stone tools." |
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