Culture and Ecology of Chaco Canyon and the San Juan Basin

The Preceramic Period 67Table 3.4. Lithic assemblages from Archaic sites in four areas added to the park.aHearth(Kin K1izhin)Baking Pit(Kin K1izhin)Lithic Scatter(Kin K1izhin)Lithic Scatter(Chacra Mesa)Other(Chacra Mesa)No. of Components 2Total Lithics 64874 2206 219 oDebitage:No. 57Percent 89.17889.7193 19993.7 90.9Cores:No. 2Percent 3.1I0.520.9Utilized Flakes:No.Percent910.30.552.3Projectile Points:No.Percent41.973.2Scrapers:No. 1Percent 1.6Bifaces:No.Percent20.9Drills:No.IPercent 1.6Ground Stone:No. 3Percent 4.731.5Hammerstones:No.Percent21.041.8Other:No.Percent21.0a Taken from Sebastian and Altschul (1986:Table SP.36).or camp-like sites (Saebastian and Altschul 1986:Table SP.35). The lithic assemblages (Sebastian andAltschul 1986:Table SP. 36) included mostly debitage,five cores, 15 utilized flakes, 11 projectile points, onescraper, two bifaces, one drill, six grinding stones, sixhammers tones , and two other objects (Table 3.4).Nine points or fragments, all from Chacra Mesa, fellwithin the Archaic-Basketmaker II period (Cameronand Young 1986). One possibly reworked basalt Jaypoint and two Bajada (or Early Archaic) points, madefrom an unknown nonlocal chert and from basalt,documented the Early Archaic presence. Three SanJose points (two obsidian and one fossiliferous chert)were attributed to the Middle Archaic. One indetermi-