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Measuring Past Networks of Cultural Transmission: The Haskett Projectile Point

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  • Advances in technology such as 3D digital scanning and spatial analysis software have provided archaeologists with novel data. Specifically, these methods increase the researcher's ability to measure artifact morphology and past networks of cultural transmission, to potentially track the movement of past peoples and ideas through space and time. This report utilizes spatial analysis software to measure the 3D morphometric variability between two samples of Haskett projectile points, one from the Haskett Locality in Idaho and one from the Great Salt Lake Desert in Utah, in order to establish a range of 3D geometric morphometric (GM) variation, and deduce whether or not Far Western precontact peoples during the Pleistocene Holocene transition shared a network of cultural transmission. Although this analysis found measurable differences in blade curvature and bounding box measurements, a Procrustes analysis revealed significant internal 3D morphology. This similarity in 3D GM, along with evidence of obsidian sourcing from American Falls, Idaho, in the Old River Bed Delta in Utah, supports the interpretation that precontact peoples in these areas shared a network of cultural transmission.
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