The Buckskull Site, CA-HUM-718
Subtitle: an upland middle chert processing camp
By: By Marlene L. Greenway, Beth Elstein, and Eric W. Ritter; with a preface by William R. Hildebrandt
Contributors: Elstein, Beth; Ritter, Eric W.; Hildebrandt, William R.; United States. Bureau of Land Management
Series: Cultural resources publications -- Archaeology; Cultural resources publications -- Archaeology
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Arcata, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Indians of North America; Antiquities; Chert implements; Cultural property; Middle Archaic Period
Description: The Buckskull Site is located at Eaton Roughs, part of the northwest trending ridge system between the Van Duzen and Mad Rivers.  This bench site appears to be a predominantly Middle Period camp emphasizing chert tool manufacture.  Testing suggests extreme quantities of lithic reduction debris including large numbers of biface fragments and some uniface fragments.  Very few complete tools were recovered.  Debitage analysis demonstrates evidence of heat treatment and intermediate to advanced states in the reduction sequence.  Using regional projectile point typologies, Buckskull specimens fit well with points from the Oregon, McKee Uniface and Menddocino Series.
Notes: Report based on paper presented at the Society for California Archaeology "Archaeology of Northern California" Symposium, 1990, and revised by Greenway and Ritter before 2006.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-50).