Artifacts
by Jonathan D. Till and Scott G. Ortman

Table 43. Chipped-Stone Tools by Material Type, Sand Canyon Pueblo

Biface

Drill

Projectile Point

Core

Modified Core

Pecking Stone

Chipped-Stone Tool

Modified Flake

Total

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

Local Materials

Dakota quartzite

56

60.9

11

31.4

54

49.1

32

8.8

 

 

26

6.9

7

8.3

64

15.0

250

16.6

Morrison chert/siltstone

9

9.8

8

22.9

9

8.2

202

55.6

11

45.8

70

18.7

35

41.7

195

45.7

539

35.7

Morrison quartzite

3

3.3

1

2.9

6

5.5

99

27.3

13

54.2

267

71.2

30

35.7

141

33.0

560

37.1

Igneous

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

0.5

 

 

 

 

2

0.1

Quartz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

0.3

 

 

 

 

1

0.1

Semi-local Materials

Agate/chalcedony

11

12.0

4

11.4

15

13.6

2

0.6

 

 

 

 

2

2.4

2

0.5

36

2.4

Petrified wood

3

3.3

1

2.9

3

2.7

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

1.2

4

0.9

12

0.8

Nonlocal Materials

Obsidian

 

 

 

 

4

3.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

0.3

Washington Pass chert

 

 

1

2.9

1

0.9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

0.5

4

0.3

Nonlocal chert/siltstone

3

3.3

3

8.6

5

4.5

1

0.3

 

 

 

 

4

4.8

2

0.5

18

1.2

Unknown Materials

Unknown chert/siltstone

7

7.6

5

14.3

12

10.9

22

6.1

 

 

2

0.5

5

6.0

15

3.5

68

4.5

Unknown quartzite

 

 

1

2.9

1

0.9

4

1.1

 

 

5

1.3

 

 

2

0.5

13

0.9

Unknown stone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

0.5

 

 

 

 

2

0.1

Unidentified lithic material

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

0.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

0.1

TOTAL

92

100.0

35

100.0

110

100.0

363

100.0

24

100.0

375

100.0

84

100.0

427

100.0

1,510

100.0

a The paint types reported here are based on a reanalysis of these sherds and therefore may be at variance with the results presented in Table 9. The "mixed" category, used here, was not a part of the original paint-type analysis.

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