Artifacts
by Jonathan D. Till and Scott G. Ortman

Table 48. Debitage Type by Material Type, Sand Canyon Pueblo

Flakes

Flake Fragments

Edge-Damaged Flakes

Angular Debris

Total Debitage

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

Local Materials

Dakota chert/siltstone

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

0.15

1

0.00

Dakota quartzite

1,364

8.75

969

13.51

55

7.94

63

9.71

2,451

10.17

Morrison chert/siltstone

2,674

17.15

937

13.07

47

6.78

184

28.35

3,842

15.94

Morrison quartzite

10,938

70.14

4,923

68.66

567

81.82

321

49.46

16,749

69.48

Igneous

111

0.71

59

0.82

3

0.43

7

1.08

180

0.75

Conglomerate

2

0.01

1

0.01

 

 

 

 

3

0.01

Quartz

1

0.01

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

0.00

Sandstone

122

0.78

48

0.67

3

0.43

8

1.23

181

0.75

Slate/shale

1

0.01

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

0.00

Local

6

0.04

8

0.11

 

 

 

 

14

0.06

Semilocal Materials

Agate/chalcedony

34

0.22

23

0.32

3

0.43

1

0.15

61

0.25

Petrified wood

1

0.01

2

0.03

 

 

5

0.77

8

0.03

Nonlocal Materials

Obsidian

4

0.03

1

0.01

1

0.14

 

 

6

0.02

Washington Pass chert

4

0.03

3

0.04

 

 

 

 

7

0.03

Nonlocal chert/siltstone

39

0.25

33

0.46

5

0.72

4

0.62

81

0.34

Nonlocal

2

0.01

3

0.04

2

0.29

3

0.46

10

0.04

Unknown Materials

Unknown chert/siltstone

197

1.26

73

1.02

3

0.43

33

5.08

306

1.27

Unknown quartzite

17

0.11

12

0.17

 

 

1

0.15

30

0.12

Unknown stone

77

0.49

75

1.05

4

0.58

18

2.77

174

0.72

TOTAL

15,594

100.00

7,170

100.00

693

100.00

649

100.00

24,106

100.00

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