Cienega Point?

[8_Way_Santa]

I found this in Ramah, McKinley County, New Mexico.

Where this was found - could it fit the geographical area for Cienega points? Is this a Cienega point?

 

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[CreekSide]

I’m not familiar with the point types from your area.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I’ve never heard of that one. Way out of my area though.

 

[DeadLizard7]

I found this in Ramah, McKinley County, New Mexico.

Where this was found - could it fit the geographical area for Cienega points? Is this a Cienega point?View attachment 2201484View attachment 2201485

Yes, looks like it to me. Similar to what I find in SENM. https://www.projectilepoints.net/Points/Cienega.html

 

[CreekSide]

Yes, looks like it to me. Similar to what I find in SENM. https://www.projectilepoints.net/Points/Cienega.html

Let’s see some of your finds in a different post. I’d love to see the points and tools from your area

 

[8_Way_Santa]

Yes, looks like it to me. Similar to what I find in SENM. https://www.projectilepoints.net/Points/Cienega.html

Thank you, DeadLizard7.

This is the site which I used to search-up the point. I'm just getting started and wasn't too confident identifying this point, not least because of the sheer amount of different types included on the projectilepoints site! Oddly enough, I found the Cienega point on the site rather quickly but spent a good hour or so sniffing around more of its pages.

So thanks again, and thanks to others on this forum - TreasureNet has been a great resource for me on my journey.

 

[DeadLizard7]

Thank you, DeadLizard7.

This is the site which I used to search-up the point. I'm just getting started and wasn't too confident identifying this point, not least because of the sheer amount of different types included on the projectilepoints site! Oddly enough, I found the Cienega point on the site rather quickly but spent a good hour or so sniffing around more of its pages.

So thanks again, and thanks to others on this forum - TreasureNet has been a great resource for me on my journey.

I'm definitely not an expert but I use this site and the Overstreet Arrowhead book. What I'm finding is that many points don't exactly fit one type. It's probably just a function of different people made them a little different from each other and the variables they encountered with the materials used, time, skill, etc. Either way I get excited with every find and the connection to the history behind them.

 

[GirlWithWolf]

That’s by the Zuni Pueblo I believe? I don’t know the name of the point but is that sandstone?

 

[tamrock]

I think it's a typical point you might find in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas or Utah. I hunted a lot on the upper Arkansas River of Colorado and the styles of arrowhead varied some and many looked similar to what you have. I figured all the various types was because of the movement of tribes from the Platte to the Rio Grande and Colorado River regions. Many nomadic tribes from all over the 4 corner states I believe came into Central Colorado and especially the South Park area for the summer hunting seasons. I've never really looked into any proper names of the artifacts I find because it's like trying to give a proper lable to every different kind of rock you might pickup, where someone would says it this and other would say it's that 🤔

 

[tamrock]

That’s by the Zuni Pueblo I believe? I don’t know the name of the point but is that sandstone?

I'm thinking its a grainy type of quartzite.

 

[DeadLizard7]

That’s by the Zuni Pueblo I believe? I don’t know the name of the point but is that sandstone?

Definitely not sandstone. That wouldn't have worked very well for any stone tools.

 

[GirlWithWolf]

Definitely not sandstone. That wouldn't have worked very well for any stone tools.

I didn’t think so but for some reason on my phone it looked like it. Thank you.

 

[8_Way_Santa]

That’s by the Zuni Pueblo I believe?

Yes, Zuni Pueblo is to the west of Ramah. There's also the Ramah Navajo Reservation close by.