Projectile Points from the Garrett Allen (Elk Mountain) Site, 48CR301
Creators: name: Eckles, David
name: Miller, Mark
Publisher: name: The Wyoming Archaeological Society
Year: 2019
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: Protohistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/147/protohistoric
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: Mortlach
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132751/mortlach
subject: Joe Miller
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132752/joe-miller
subject: White Fish
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132749/white-fish
subject: Taliaferro
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132750/taliaferro
subject: Benick Ranch
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132753/benick-ranch
subject: Mummy Cave
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/6452/mummy-cave
subject: Long Creek
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132754/long-creek
subject: Maxon Ranch
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/4729/maxon-ranch
subject: Wardell
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132732/wardell
subject: Muddy Creek
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132479/muddy-creek
subject: Eden-Farson
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132606/eden-farson
subject: Barnes
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132734/barnes
subject: 48CR301
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132643/48cr301
subject: Willow Springs
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/21314/willow-springs
subject: lodaiska
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132449/lodaiska
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: Butler-Rissler
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132549/butler-rissler
subject: 48LA304
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132748/48la304
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: Metal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/11/metal
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: Steatite
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/8926/steatite
subject: shoshonean suite
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170098/shoshonean-suite

description: The Garrett Allen (Elk Mountain) archaeological site is located 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 adjacent to the perennial Quealy Spring which forms an ephemeral drainage flowing north-northwest. The site is surrounded by Upper Cretaceous sedimentary rocks, primarily of the Pine Ridge Sandstone (Hayter 1983:5). Previously published articles on the site have discussed the excavation history and chronology of the site (Eckles 2013), chipped stone raw materials and obsidian sourcing (Eckles and Guinard 2015), and research potential of the collection (Clauter 2013). The intent of this article is to more fully examine the chipped stone projectile points, with emphasis on the identified types as well as discussion of several unknown or questionable types.