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Notched Stones in Southwestern Sites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Albert H. Schrokder
Albert H. Schrokder*
Affiliation:
National Park Service, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Tabular stones, either with parallel sides or sides that taper to a blunt point at one end and bearing a wide notch on the other end, have been found in situ in or resting on floors of structures over a considerable area of the Southwest. Sites which have yielded these stones and data pertaining to them are listed in the accompanying figure. Sources for these data are contained in the bibliography.

In 1932, Haury suggested and demonstrated that the notched stones at Roosevelt 9:6 in the Tonto Basin, Arizona, held logs which supported an elevated floor. Since that date these stones periodically have been recovered from sites distributed over a wide area in association with structures dating from before 500 A.D. to 1100 A.D. and possibly later. However, in no case have they been found in such quantities on or in house floors as at Roosevelt 9:6. When the circumstances of these finds are considered it seems quite likely that the notched slabs of all other sites excavated since 1932 were put to a different use.

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American Antiquity , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , October 1953 , pp. 158 - 160
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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