Artifacts
by Jonathan D. Till and Scott G. Ortman
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Table 54. Specific Debitage Material Types, Sand Canyon Locality Sites
Site Local Materials Semilocal Materials Nonlocal Materials Unknown Materials Total
Dakota Chert/
Siltstone
Dakota Quartzite Morrison Chert/
Siltstone
Morrison Quartzite Igneous Conglomerate Quartz Sandstone Slate/
Shale
Local Agate/
Chalcedony
Petrified Wood Obsidian Washington Pass Chert Jet Nonlocal Chert/
Siltstone
Nonlocal Unknown Chert/
Siltstone
Unknown Quartzite Unknown Stone
N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N
Lester's Site     145 7.10 37 1.81 1,702 83.31     1 0.05     46 2.25         5 0.24         5 0.24             18 0.88 38 1.86 46 2.25 2,043
Lookout House     97 5.83 67 4.03 1,456 87.55 1 0.06 2 0.12     18 1.08         4 0.24     1 0.06 3 0.18     9 0.54     3 0.18 1 0.06 1 0.06 1,663
Stanton's Site     974 33.36 147 5.03 1,563 53.53 5 0.17 7 0.24     96 3.29         38 1.30     24 0.82     1 0.03 28 0.96     31 1.06 5 0.17 1 0.03 2,920
G & G Hamlet*     633 21.23 359 12.04 1,674 56.16 29 0.97         46 1.54 1 0.03     6 0.20 16 0.54 55 1.85 2 0.07     25 0.84     101 3.39 34 1.14     2,981
Mad Dog Tower     407 39.10 74 7.11 496 47.65 2 0.19         19 1.83         13 1.25             1 0.10         26 2.50 3 0.29     1,041
Saddlehorn Hamlet     53 6.39 9 1.09 733 88.42 8 0.97         5 0.60         6 0.72                 4 0.48     5 0.60 4 0.48 2 0.24 829
Shorlene's Site**     253 13.28 104 5.46 1,440 75.59 57 2.99         12 0.63     8 0.42 11 0.58     2 0.10 1 0.05     5 0.26 2 0.10 1 0.05 1 0.05 8 0.42 1,905
Roy's Ruin***     157 6.89 89 3.90 1,994 87.46 13 0.57 1 0.04     4 0.18     4 0.18 4 0.18         1 0.04     4 0.18     3 0.13 1 0.04 5 0.22 2,280
Lillian's Site***     88 4.42 200 10.04 1,651 82.84 24 1.20         12 0.60     4 0.20 2 0.10 1 0.05             6 0.30     3 0.15     2 0.10 1,993
Troy's Tower     204 19.92 130 12.70 582 56.84 19 1.86 2 0.20     41 4.00     20 1.95 8 0.78     2 0.20         5 0.49         1 0.10 10 0.98 1,024
Catherine's Site     1,202 27.63 255 5.86 2,671 61.40 3 0.07 35 0.80     74 1.70     3 0.07 30 0.69         1 0.02     23 0.53 6 0.14 2 0.05     45 1.03 4,350
Kenzie Dawn Hamlet****     459 7.90 637 10.97 4,581 78.89 6 0.10 12 0.21 6 0.10 48 0.83 1 0.02     23 0.40     2 0.03 2 0.03     7 0.12     20 0.34 3 0.05     5,807
Castle Rock Pueblo 1 0.01 904 10.19 1,917 21.60 5,170 58.25 282 3.18 67 0.75     103 1.16 2 0.02     71 0.80 5 0.06 6 0.07 1 0.01 1 0.01 21 0.24     244 2.75 79 0.89 1 0.01 8,875
Sand Canyon Pueblo 1 0.00 2,451 10.17 3,842 15.94 16,750 69.48 180 0.75 3 0.01 1 0.00 181 0.75 1 0.00 14 0.06 61 0.25 8 0.03 6 0.02 7 0.03     81 0.34 10 0.04 306 1.27 30 0.12 174 0.72 24,107
NOTE: Sites whose names are not marked with an asterisk date from the late Pueblo III period. Sites distinguished with asterisks are multicomponent, as follows:
* Late Pueblo II and early Pueblo III
** Basketmaker III, late Pueblo II, and late Pueblo III
*** Late Pueblo II and late Pueblo III
**** Basketmaker III, late Pueblo II, and early Pueblo III

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