NM artifact help needed...

[OldTex]

Hello... First time poster. I am needing some assistance identifying the following artifacts found (over the last ten years) on private land in northeastern New Mexico. These images are of artifacts - all surface finds - found in one canyon. I am going to say most are quartzite. We (my family) has never found an arrowhead here, but it seems that there are plenty of these "tools" scattered throughout this area. Any help (period, types, clues, etc.) would be greatly appreciated. Since we have never actually found a cut-and-dried arrowhead, my family "questions" my identification skills, but I am sticking to my guns. I can see the work done on these, but am curious to learn from others on where to draw the line on collecting misc. "tools". It's hard to tell the size from the photos, but most are hand axe size, and it seems that maybe these large tools are not so common (?).

Thanks, and I really enjoy this site.....OldTex

[uniface]

1) Most look like low grade quartz.

2) I'd guess you have a seasonal harvesting camp site -- one inhabited fairly briefly each year for some specific purpose like, say, harvesting and processing pine nuts. Leaving behind the tools, quickly made from local material, that weren't worth carrying out with them.

This sort of "seasonal round" was broadly characteristic of Archaic cultures through time across the country.

FWIW

[OldTex]

Thanks Uniface.... That would make sense, as pines dominate the area.

[PLS]

I'd like to know why a funeral home feels like they need to hand out yardsticks.

Can you zoom in on the triangles in the left corner of the second pic?

Also, it is hard to see that any of the rocks have been worked.

[OldTex]

Here's a closeup (thx). I know it's hard to see the work on these, but finding the hand hold on the large pieces is fairly easy. The edges are rough (as opposed to fine on arrowheads - I have some local Alibates points), but are there (IMO).

As for the funeral home yardstick, I am guessing they used two end-to-end to make sure you were "six feet under".