Abstract

ABSTRACT In the Great Basin and Intermountain West of North America, we still lack a well-stratified and consistently radiocarbon-dated Clovis site, so we cannot completely understand variability in fluted-point technologies and their relationship to the Western Stemmed tradition. To potentially solve this problem, we revisited the Hell’n Moriah Clovis site located in the southern Bonneville basin of western Utah. Geoarchaeological test excavations failed to identify a buried cultural layer, so the Clovis occupation here cannot be reliably dated. Nonetheless, analysis of the small surface assemblage recovered during an earlier study in 1992 as well as additional surface finds in 2021 allow us to definitively ascribe a Clovis designation to the site and to explore Clovis toolstone procurement, technological activities, and settlement behavior in this region of the arid West.

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