Outline is Representative of Size and Shape:
Name Details:
Identified By: Kenneth Honea
Named For: Escobas Peak near Pecos Pueblo, New Mexico
Date Identified: 1965
Type Site:
Identified By: Kenneth Honea
Named For: Escobas Peak near Pecos Pueblo, New Mexico
Date Identified: 1965
Type Site:
Point Validity:
Valid type
Honea was an anthropologist who conducted extensive studies in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico and Texas with Texas Tech University. He continued on to the University of Illinois and went on conduct studies in Romania. This type was named in a professional publication and has many professional references. This is considered a valid type.
Honea was an anthropologist who conducted extensive studies in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico and Texas with Texas Tech University. He continued on to the University of Illinois and went on conduct studies in Romania. This type was named in a professional publication and has many professional references. This is considered a valid type.
Escobas Stemmed
Cluster: Bajada Cluster Description of Physical Characteristics and Flaking Pattern:
This is a thick medium stemmed lanceolate point with an elliptical or median ridge cross section. The blade is excurvate with the broadest portion of the blade being just below the midline. The shoulders are weak to absent and at an upward angle or rounded. The stem is long and makes up one half to one third the length of the point. The stem may vary from straight to slightly expanding. The base is concave. Grinding is present on the lateral edges of the stem and commonly absent from the base. This point is manufactured using percussion flaking with pressure flaking rarely seen on the blade and the stem has finer percussion or pressure flaking. This point has a random flaking pattern.
Size Measurements:
Total Length - 36 to 71 mm (average 60 mm), Stem Length - 17 to 35 mm (typically 1/3 to 1/2 or greater of the total length), Blade Width at Shoulders - 18 to 26 mm (average 20 mm), Basal Width - 13 to 19 mm (average 17 mm)
Total Length - 36 to 71 mm (average 60 mm), Stem Length - 17 to 35 mm (typically 1/3 to 1/2 or greater of the total length), Blade Width at Shoulders - 18 to 26 mm (average 20 mm), Basal Width - 13 to 19 mm (average 17 mm)
Commonly Utilized Material:
Basalt
Basalt
Additional Comments:
This point is thought to have evolved from the Rio Grande type and is the predecessor of the Bajada type.
This point is thought to have evolved from the Rio Grande type and is the predecessor of the Bajada type.
Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
This point is primarily found fin the Upper Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, southern Colorado, and into northeastern Arizona. This point may be found into the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
This point is primarily found fin the Upper Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, southern Colorado, and into northeastern Arizona. This point may be found into the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
Age / Periods:
Date: 6,500 - 6,200 B.P.
Cultural Period: Middle Archaic
Glacial Period: Middle Holocene
Culture:
Date: 6,500 - 6,200 B.P.
Cultural Period: Middle Archaic
Glacial Period: Middle Holocene
Culture:
Age Details:
Other points in this cluster / Related / Associated Points:
Bajada
Bajada
