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5GN149 is a lithic workshop in the Gunnison Basin, Colorado. The site is composed of an extensive scatter of chipping debris (6,800 m2) dispersed across the surface of a bench (2,420 m a.s.l.) overlooking the Gunnison River 125 m below. The site was used multiple times throughout prehistory, as indicated by point types spanning the late Paleoindian to the late Prehistoric. Although no diagnostic Clovis artifacts have been recovered, 5GN149 has yielded manufacturing debris reminiscent of Clovis technology (Figure 1). Surface collecting and near-surface excavation from 2002 to 2004 at 5GN149 produced approximately 5,000 lithic artifacts, though this represents only a fraction of the entire assemblage. Four clusters with well-defined boundaries have been identified within the larger debitage scatter and probably mark discrete manufacturing events. Upon refitting a portion of the assemblage derived from Cluster 1 (sample includes 1372 artifacts; 160 refit pairs were
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