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Table 44. Grouped Chipped-Stone Tools and Debitage, by Material Type, Sand Canyon Pueblo
Formal Toolsa
Cores and Core Toolsb
Expedient Toolsc
Debitage
N
%
N
%
N
%
N
%
Local Materials
Dakota chert/siltstone
1
0.0
Dakota quartzite
121
51.1
58
7.6
71
13.9
2,451
10.2
Morrison chert/siltstone
26
11.0
283
37.2
230
45.0
3,842
15.9
Morrison quartzite
10
4.2
379
49.8
171
33.5
16,749
69.5
Igneous
2
0.3
180
0.7
Conglomerate
3
0.0
Quartz
1
0.1
1
0.0
Sandstone
181
0.8
Slate/shale
1
0.0
Local
14
0.1
Semi-local Materials
Agate/chalcedony
30
12.7
2
0.3
4
0.8
61
0.3
Petrified wood
7
3.0
5
1.0
8
0.0
Nonlocal Materials
Obsidian
4
1.7
6
0.0
Washington Pass chert
2
0.8
2
0.4
7
0.0
Nonlocal chert/siltstone
11
4.6
1
0.1
6
1.2
81
0.3
Nonlocal
10
0.0
Unknown Materials
Unknown chert/siltstone
24
10.1
24
3.2
20
3.9
306
1.3
Unknown quartzite
2
0.8
9
1.2
2
0.4
30
0.1
Unknown stone
2
0.3
174
0.7
TOTAL
237
100.0
761
100.0
511
100.0
24,106
100.0
a Projectile points, bifaces, and drills.
b Cores, modified cores, and peckingstones.
c Modified flakes and "other chipped-stone tools."
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