Abstract
The Martin site is a Folsom camp in the Estancia Basin, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, investigated in 1955 and only briefly described in a 1967 dissertation. Reanalysis of the implement collection was conducted during 2002, and the debitage was described in detail in 2005. The principal goal of the research was to integrate this important assemblage into current models of Folsom lithic technological organization through study of artifact assemblage composition and identification of the raw materials used in the production of stone tools. The assemblage is dominated by large numbers of preforms and channel flakes that are predominantly (95 percent) Edwards chert from west central Texas sources. Despite the location of the Martin site far from known Edwards chert sources, only Folsom points were manufactured, thereby raising questions concerning the relationship between Folsom and Midland and the hypothesis that Midland point manufacture is a raw material conservation strategy employed by Folsom groups at sites distant from sources. We describe the assemblage and discuss the pattern of Folsom raw material consumption and technological organization.
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