Archaeological Excavation at the Confluence Housepit Site (48NA4588)

Author(s): Brent A. Buenger

Year: 2014

Summary

The archaeological excavation at the Confluence Housepit site yielded a single housepit feature, two associated subfloor thermal basins internal to the housepit substructure, one thermal basin exterior to the housepit substructure, and associated artifacts. The deposit is dated to the Opal phase of the Early Archaic period through four conventional radiocarbon age estimates ranging between 5000 ± 40 and 5390 ± 40 years B.P. The housepit, associated features, and cultural materials are viewed as representing the use of the site locality by a small group of hunter-gatherers as part of an adaptive strategy influenced by Late Middle Holocene environmental conditions. The proximity of the Confluence Housepit site locality to Horse Creek and Fish Creek was likely a contributing factor conditioning the occupation, and potential reoccupation, of the site locality by Archaic period hunter-gatherers.

Cite this Record

Archaeological Excavation at the Confluence Housepit Site (48NA4588). Brent A. Buenger. The Wyoming Archaeologist. 58 (1): 5-32. 2014 ( tDAR id: 476498) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8476498

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Keywords

Material
Chipped Stone • Fauna • Ground Stone • Pollen • Shell

Site Name
48FR1484 • 48FR2330 • 48FR4398 • 48FR4457 • 48FR4459 • 48FR4464 • 48FR4516 • 48FR5125 • 48FR6260 • 48FR6261 • 48LN3409 • 48LN3642 • 48NA1079 • 48NA2526 • 48NA2529 • 48NA2779 • 48NA3800 • 48NA3801 • 48NA3805 • 48NA4588 • 48NA884 • 48NA963 • 48NA964 • 48SW5057 • Beef Gap • Black and Red • Buffalo Hump • Butler-Rissler • Confluence Housepit • Crooks Gap • Dry Creek • ED1 Twin • Flying A Ranch • Headlining • Horton • Jeffrey City • McKean • Moneta Divide • Natrona Housepit • Powder River • River Bend • Sheep Mountain • Sixmile Draw • Split Rock Ranch • Sweetwater Terrace • Two-Fisted Manos • Two Toads • White Stallion Show More

General
Basin • Fire Altered Rock • Hunter-Gatherer • late middle holocene • opal phase • Winter Site

Geographic Keywords
North Platte Basin • Wind River Basin

Temporal Keywords
Early Archaic

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Marcia Peterson

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