"Artifacts," by Scott G. Ortman

Table 46. Counts of Common Artifacts by Architectural Block, Yellow Jacket Pueblo
Architectural Block: 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 2000 2100 2200 2300 2400 2500 2600 3200 3300 3400 Total
Context Groupa : 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 4 1 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 2 3
Artifact/Ecofact Category
Corrugated gray jar sherds 2,212 3,746 3,456 2,606 2,536 2,166 2,311 1,508 2,136 209 708 8,213 655 279 1,223 842 1,269 1,325 1,541 1,220 427 53 40,641
White ware bowl sherds 526 1,003 1,218 705 807 752 680 350 681 76 147 2,170 293 81 235 162 384 390 368 376 141 43 11,588
White ware jar sherds 397 683 746 465 609 520 572 246 582 42 92 1,518 145 89 157 143 228 284 251 356 75 26 8,226
Imported pottery 5 10 20 5 16 14 17 1 24 4 2 11 1 2 1 1 4 2 5 3 1   149
Pottery-production itemsb 2 7 1 8 4 8 3 3 5   1 6     1       1 1     51
Axes             1         2                     3
Bifaces, projectile points 9 12 8 6 8 7 13 2 6   2 26     2 1 2 5 4 14 1 1 129
Cores 6 7 4 8 6 7 16 6 11   3 14 2 1 3   2 3 6 5 1 1 112
Informal chipped-stone toolsc 9 5 11 9 13 11 19 7 13   4 25 1   2 4 7 6 5 20 4   175
Ground-stone toolsd 26 59 38 18 42 23 43 23 27 7 11 113 9 11 7 5 12 15 17 20 1   527
Mauls 1                     2                     3
Peckingstones 5 9 11 3 6 4 10 1 6 2 3 15 1 1   1 1 5   9 1   94
Chipped-stone debris 955 1,310 1,708 1,119 1,111 1,091 1,272 644 916 135 240 1,276 28 123 335 178 443 997 417 963 186 25 15,472
Personal-adornment itemse 4 13 3 5 1 3 8 3 2     4         4 4 1 3     58
Artiodactyl bones 8 10 7 13 16   13         106   1 1 20 2 6 9   5 18 235
Lagomorph bones 58 188 42 85 53 9 132     6 5 396   4 1 69 93 32 159 10 79 64 1,485
Turkey bones 23 43 9 56 31 15 22     2 7 64 1 3 1 25 33 8 70 15 27 45 500
Gizzard stones 11 21 7 23 22 17 23     1 26 16 3 6 1 32 6 4 26 6 10 11 272
Bone toolsf   9 12 2 4 3 9 5 5     20     1   3 3   1 1   78
   TOTAL 4,257 7,135 7,301 5,136 5,285 4,650 5,164 2,799 4,414 484 1,251 13,997 1,139 601 1,971 1,483 2,493 3,089 2,880 3,022 960 287 79,798
aContext group: 1 = Central; 2 = Peripheral Early; 3 = Peripheral Late; 4 = Great Tower. See paragraph 74 for definitions.

bPolishing stones, pottery clay samples, and "other ceramic artifacts."

cModified flakes and "other chipped-stone tools."

dCorn-grinding tools (all types of manos and metates) and abraders.

ePendants, beads, and tubes.

fAwls and needles.
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