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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