Hafted Stone Tools: A Look at Hunter-Gatherer Examples from the Central and Northwestern Plains
Creators: name: Newton, Cody
Publisher: name: The Wyoming Archaeological Society
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Colorado
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/113/colorado
subject: Wyoming
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/19431/wyoming
subject: Montana
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/9704/montana
subject: Nebraska
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/19432/nebraska
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: Undifferentiated Native American
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/9573/undifferentiated-native-american
subject: Pictograph Cave/Ghost Cave
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132559/pictograph-caveghost-cave
subject: Carbon County
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132560/carbon-county
subject: Hagen
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132557/hagen
subject: 25FR22
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132558/25fr22
subject: Spring Creek Cave
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132563/spring-creek-cave
subject: Daugherty Cave
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132564/daugherty-cave
subject: Hoskin Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132561/hoskin-basin
subject: Mummy Cave
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/6452/mummy-cave
subject: Wickiup Cave
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132562/wickiup-cave
subject: Mantle's Cave
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132567/mantles-cave
subject: Chamber Cave
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132568/chamber-cave
subject: Wedding of the Waters Cave
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132565/wedding-of-the-waters-cave
subject: Horned Owl Cave
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132566/horned-owl-cave
subject: Plum Canyon Rockshelter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132569/plum-canyon-rockshelter
subject: Wood
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/15/wood
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Fauna
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4/fauna
subject: Macrobotanical
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/10/macrobotanical
subject: binding
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169953/binding
subject: Hafting
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/37529/hafting

description: Chipped stone is a ubiquitous part of the prehistoric hunter-gatherer archaeological record in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. It has long been recognized many chipped stone tools represent one element of a composite tool system which includes other perishable materials, such as wood and animal products. Because these latter materials rarely preserve, understanding the role of stone tools in prehistoric contexts is difficult. Although rare, some complete examples of these composite tools do exist. In this paper, published intact composite tools from hunter-gatherer sites in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska are summarized. The goal of this study is to decipher the technological organization of hafted stone tools in order to better the technological role of stone tools, which are a large part of the hunter-gatherer archaeological record.