The Coronado Project Archaeological Investigations: A Description of Lithic Collections from the Railroad and Transmission Line Corridors
Creators: name: Berry, Claudia
Publisher: name: Museum of Northern Arizona Press
Year: 1984
Subjects: Coronado Generating Station
St. Johns, AZ
Arizona (State / Territory)
Late Archaic
Paleo-Indian
Early Archaic
Basketmaker II
PaleoIndian
Archaic
Basketmaker III - Pueblo III
NA 14,218
NA 4212
NA 13,869A
NA 13,869B
NA 14,198
NA 14,216
NA 13,908
NA 14,199
NA 14,212
NA 14,211
NA 13,907
NA 14,872
NA 13,827
NA 14,196
NA 14,290
NA 14,197
NA 13,911
NA 13,837
NA 14,292
NA 13,912
NA 13,830
NA 13,855
NA 13,831
NA 13,870
NA 13,873
NA 13,871
NA 14,868
NA 14,208
NA 14,869
NA 14,204
NA 14,862
NA 14,200
NA 14,865
NA 13,825
NA 14,861
NA 13,823
NA 13,903
NA 13,868
NA 13,845
NA 13,864
NA 13,843
NA 14,278
NA 14,277
NA 14,285
NA 14,280
NA 14,287
Archaeological Feature
Artifact Scatter
Isolated Artifact
Lithic Concentration
Cores
Chipped Stone
Chert
Drills
Projectile Point
utilized flakes
Quartzite
Petrified Wood
Chalcedony
Biface
Petrified Wood Core
Petrified wood projectile point
Lithic Analysis
Flakes
CGS
Quartzite Biface
Petrified Wood Bifaces
Chert Core
Chalcedony Flake
Chert Flake
Coronado-Silverking Transmission Line
Lithic Collection
Quartzite Core
Chert Biface
Core Fragment
Coronado Coal Haul Railroad
Quartzite Flake
Archaeological Overview
Collections Research

description: During 1974-1978, the Museum of Northern Arizona conducted an extensive archaeological mitigation program for the Salt River Project prior to the construction of the Coronado Generating Plant near St. Johns, Arizona, and its energy corridors, the Coronado-Silver King Transmission Line and the Coronado Coal Haul Railroad. Lithic material from those corridors was separated from remaining project data and is reported herein. Objectives of this study are identification and description of all lithic material collected; the recognition of basic morphological and technological differences not related to specific raw material attributes, and additionally, whether such differences refer to specific cultures, time periods, or regions. Therefore, emphasis has been placed on the distributional analysis of raw materials in order to determine whether they were available on or adjacent to the sites, or transported there. Also, an effort has been made to describe the characteristics of material types as they affect flaking quality. Certain methodological considerations applicable to lithic analysis are investigated, including a wide variety of project-specific conditions and processes affecting both the nature of the assemblages available for analysis and the manner in which artifact analyses were undertaken. Among these considerations are theoretical assumptions subject to either verification or repudiation; collection and sampling techniques which were utilized, their extreme variability from site to site, and the effects of this on the validity of statistical inferences; and classification problems which had to be resolved. In this report the lithic material is first described and identified according to mineral type, i.e. chert, chalcedony, etc., with a discussion of geographic distribution. Next is classification by artifact type, and finally, lithic assemblages from individual sites are discussed in detail, with raw data from each site presented in tabular form.