tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540283839479085577.post4359398211607254846..comments2023-06-28T04:54:16.142-07:00Comments on Anthroslug the Much Put-Upon: Point!Anthroslughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12455234504938025982noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540283839479085577.post-62475411067081446872011-12-21T08:22:05.656-08:002011-12-21T08:22:05.656-08:00It's a funny thing - it is possible, even like...It's a funny thing - it is possible, even likely that it was either included in a basket of dirt during construction or that there was an older occupation underneath the pueblo (the latter, the older occupation, seems especially likely, as it would be odd to build a pueblo where nobody had lived previously), but there was a guy I went to grad school with who would insist that the placement of the projectile point was "obviously intentional" and that it had great political meaning to the people who built the place.Anthroslughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02047686739793030565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540283839479085577.post-35759766337724512572011-12-13T18:01:54.043-08:002011-12-13T18:01:54.043-08:00Nobody knew why it was there, but it's quite p...Nobody knew why it was there, but it's quite possible it was accidentally included in a basket of dirt when the pueblo was being built. And for obvious reasons, the Forest Service was unwilling to demolish the standing architecture in order to see if there's evidence of an earlier occupation underneath it. (None of us would have wanted that anyway.)Joehttp://squareholes.castlejefferson.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540283839479085577.post-24543832435729776082011-12-12T19:05:20.771-08:002011-12-12T19:05:20.771-08:00That is excellent! Part of what makes this job fu...That is excellent! Part of what makes this job fun is that even an unremarkable project like the one I was on has the potential to yield something interesting.<br /><br />Was it thought that the point was intentionally placed in the fill, or that there may have been some other reason for it to end up in the fill?Anthroslughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02047686739793030565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540283839479085577.post-5685474362569171672011-12-12T18:14:43.160-08:002011-12-12T18:14:43.160-08:00Something similar happened to me on my very first ...Something similar happened to me on my very first dig. This was during a field class at Honanki Pueblo, a Southern Sinagua site near Sedona, AZ. The site dates from ca. AD 1150 - 1300, but I found a point that my instructor identified as archaic in age. The point was inside a wall, buried in the fill between two courses of stone.Joehttp://squareholes.castlejefferson.orgnoreply@blogger.com