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- Ring Basket, Detail
Description: Twilled ring basket made with a 3/3 twill. The body of the basket is yucca or agave and the outer rim hoop is squaw bush (Rhus sp.) or willow (Salix sp.). This basket was found along the Colorado River and was radiocarbon dated to 750 bp +/- 50 years. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. 67879-12). - Ring Basket, Close View
Description: Twilled ring basket made with a 3/3 twill. The body of the basket is yucca or agave and the outer rim hoop is squaw bush (Rhus sp.) or willow (Salix sp.). This basket was found along the Colorado River and was radiocarbon dated to 750 bp +/- 50 years. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 67879-12). - Ring Basket, Detail
Description: Twilled ring basket made with a 3/3 twill. The body of the basket is yucca or agave and the outer rim hoop is squaw bush (Rhus sp.) or willow (Salix sp.). This basket was found along the Colorado River and was radiocarbon dated to 750 bp +/- 50 years. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 67879-12). - Deadmans Gray Jar Sherds
Pictured here are the remains of a Deadmans Gray jar recovered from the upper fill of the pit house. This vessel may have rested on the roof before it collapsed and represents the most common pottery type found at the site. - Shell
A single shell was recovered from the surface of the site. This was an intact and unmodified Turritella sp. (possibly T. leucostoma) shell measuring 25.73 mm long. - Stone Bead
One of the artifacts recovered from the hearth of the pit house was this stone bead. Sediment still clings to the bead, which was likely made of steatite, a soft stone commonly used for beads in the prehistoric northern Southwest. - Awl
This image shows the two sides of a bone awl recovered from the hearth of the pit house. The awl, blackened from burning, was broken during excavation, but could be refit, as shown here. Made from the metapodial of an artiodactyl (deer species), the awl measured 105 mm long and was decorated with a series of worn and polished ridges on one edge. Awls served a variety of purposes and were used prehistorically the manufacture of clothing, baskets, and sandals. - Projectile Points
Surprisingly, the projectile points (used to tip darts and arrows) recovered from the site are not typical of Cohonina-style points, and instead resemble styles used by earlier peoples (right) and Kayenta or Fremont hunters (left). - Awl, Close View
A detailed view of the worn or polished ridges on the side of the awl recovered from the pit house hearth. - Animal Bone
This is a burned piece of animal bone found at the site. The size and condition of the bone suggests it came from a medium to large mammal that was consumed as food. Other bones were made into tools, including the awl found within the hearth. - Mammal Bone
This is an ulnar carpal from a medium to large mammal, one of the few identifiable bones found on the site. Like the other faunal remains recovered during excavation, this bone was burned. - Polishing Stone
This small, round stone found on the surface of the site may have been a smoothing or polishing stone, tools used most commonly in pottery manufacture. Other ground stone artifacts recovered from the site include grinding tools, such as manos and metates, used to process seeds, corn, and other foods, and abrading tools used in stone tool manufacture and perhaps hide processing. - Corn Impression
Excavations just outside the pit house produced a piece of fired clay with corn (maize) cob impressions. Just a fragment, this piece is thought to have been part of a clay stopper used to seal a jar in which corn was stored; it is likely it was unfired until the burning of the pit house. - Impression, Close View
Detail of the maize cob impression. The fragment was likely part of a clay jar stopper. - Burned Daub
Two pieces of burned daub were recovered from the site. These are remnant pieces a secondary structure with a large shallow hearth, possibly used for cooking. The presence of the daub, as well as the configuration of the structure remains, indicate it was built of small poles and brush perhaps covered with a thin layer of mud or clay.