X Marks the Spot: Mapping as the Key to Unlocking the Crosspatch Site’s Past”
by
Jessica Weinmeister
Monday, August 14, 2023
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT

The Crosspath Site (5DL858, formerly Sarvell Site and Berry Ruin) is a large Ancestral Pueblo community center with Basketmaker through Pueblo II components. Crosspath is located between the Central Mesa Verde region and southeast Utah and has influence from Kayenta and Chaco. Jessica Weinmeister’s Master’s thesis addressed the question whether flaked stone tools were made at the site and/or exchanged and whether these behaviors changed over time. To gather data for this research Jessica and crew conducted field work at Crosspatch including site mapping and collecting of ceramics and lithics in June 2022. In this presentation Jessica will introduce the Crosspath Site and share her research results.

Jessica Weinmeister graduated with a Masters from New Mexico State University. She received her B.A. Summa cum Laude in Anthropology from Western Colorado University. Her professional experience includes Museum Graduate Assistant at the University Museum, New Mexico State University, Los Cruses, NM; Public Archaeology Intern at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, NM, and Cultural Resource Management at Western Colorado University, Gunnison, CO. Her field work included Maya Archaeological Field School and Haynie and Dillard excavation sites through Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez. Her independent research included Ceramics Analysis Research Project and Lithic Analysis Honor Thesis, and Lithic Analysis Research Project where she analyzed flaked stone tools from the Crosspatch site. She has two publications.