Chipped Stone Raw Materials from the Garrett Allen (Elk Mountain) Site, 48CR301
Creators: name: Eckles, David
name: Guinard, Adam
Publisher: name: The Wyoming Archaeological Society
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine Bow Mountains
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/9179/medicine-bow-mountains
subject: Late Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/3245/late-prehistoric
subject: Late Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/32/late-archaic
subject: Middle Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/3094/middle-archaic
subject: Shoshone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/66/shoshone
subject: Rose Spring
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/7606/rose-spring
subject: Avonlea
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/647/avonlea
subject: Besant
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/679/besant
subject: McKean
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/169/mckean
subject: Pelican Lake
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/634/pelican-lake
subject: 48CR301
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132643/48cr301
subject: Garrett Allen
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132641/garrett-allen
subject: Elk Mountain
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132642/elk-mountain
subject: Sheep Creek
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132743/sheep-creek
subject: 48CR5183
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132744/48cr5183
subject: 48CR1246
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132741/48cr1246
subject: 48AB1117
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132742/48ab1117
subject: 48AB314
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132745/48ab314
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Dating Sample
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3/dating-sample
subject: hanna-carbon basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170079/hanna-carbon-basin
subject: perennial spring
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170095/perennial-spring
subject: Trade
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/2400/trade

description: In this article, chipped stone raw materials from the Garrett Allen site are discussed, with emphasis on the stone tools. As indicated by Eckles (2103), who discussed the history of investigations and chronology, this is one of several articles to be presented on various aspects of the site’s artifacts. One of the remarkable aspects of the site is the variety of chipped stone raw materials. There are varieties of flint, chert, agate, jasper, chalcedony, petrified wood, orthoquartzite, metaquartzite, quartz, silicified shale, clinker, non-volcanic glass, obsidian, and basalt from many parts of Wyoming and surrounding states. The diversity of raw material types is present throughout the cultural deposits. There is no knappable tool stone on site; the only rocks are small fragments of drab, buff-gray sandstone. All culturally manipulated lithic materials were therefore brought into the site, many from considerable distances. The site is located on private land in southeastern Carbon County, Wyoming at the northern end of the Medicine Bow Mountains and southern edge of the Hanna-Carbon Basin. It is within a homoclinal valley near the perennial Quealy Spring. Deposits are primarily alluvial, derived from the surrounding geological formations (Hayter 1981:31).