CLOVIS PALEOECOLOGY AND LITHIC TECHNOLOGY IN THE CENTRAL RIO GRANDE RIFT REGION, NEW MEXICO

Marcus J. Hamilton; Briggs Buchanan; Bruce B. Huckell; Vance T. Holliday; M. Steven Shackley; Matthew E. Hill

doi:10.7183/0002-7316.78.2.248

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CLOVIS PALEOECOLOGY AND LITHIC TECHNOLOGY IN THE CENTRAL RIO GRANDE RIFT REGION, NEW MEXICO

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CLOVIS PALEOECOLOGY AND LITHIC TECHNOLOGY IN THE CENTRAL RIO GRANDE RIFT REGION, NEW MEXICO

Marcus J. Hamilton, Briggs Buchanan, Bruce B. Huckell, Vance T. Holliday, M. Steven Shackley and Matthew E. Hill

American antiquity, Vol.78(2), pp.248-265

04/01/2013

DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.78.2.248

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Abstract

Clovis sites occur throughout the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, but are poorly documented in the central Rio Grande rift region. Here, we present data from two relatively unknown Clovis projectile point assemblages from this region: the first is from the Mockingbird Gap Clovis site and the second is from a survey of the surrounding region. Our goals are to reconstruct general features of the paleoecological adaptation of Clovis populations in the region using raw material sourcing and then to compare the point technology in the region to other Clovis assemblages in. the Southwest and across the continent. Our results show that both assemblages were manufactured from similar suites of raw materials that come almost exclusively from the central Rio Grande rift region and the adjacent mountains of New Mexico. Additionally, we show that Clovis projectile points in the study region are significantly smaller than the continental average. Our results suggest that Clovis populations in this region operated within a large, well-known, and relatively high-elevation territory encompassing much of northern and western New Mexico.

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Title: Subtitle: CLOVIS PALEOECOLOGY AND LITHIC TECHNOLOGY IN THE CENTRAL RIO GRANDE RIFT REGION, NEW MEXICO
Creators: Marcus J. Hamilton - Santa Fe Institute
Briggs Buchanan - Simon Fraser University
Bruce B. Huckell - University of New Mexico
Vance T. Holliday - Anthropology, School of
M. Steven Shackley - University of California, Berkeley
Matthew E. Hill - University of Iowa
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: American antiquity, Vol.78(2), pp.248-265
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Press
DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.78.2.248
ISSN: 0002-7316
eISSN: 2325-5064
Number of pages: 18
Language: English
Date published: 04/01/2013
Academic Unit: Anthropology
Record Identifier: 9984271555702771

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