Archaeological Excavation at Site 48SW5815, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Author(s): Heidi Humphreys

Year: 2015

Summary

Data recovery excavations at archaeological site 48SW5815 were completed by Western Archaeological Services in the winter of 2012- 2013. 48SW5815 yielded an assemblage of remains suggesting the site area was primarily a locus of repeated low intensity, short-term occupations by hunter-gatherer groups practicing a highly organized subsistence strategy using task specific activity areas which employed greater mobility within a broad spectrum collecting/ foraging system. The excavation of the three blocks yielded 19 features, 3,339 pieces of FCR, 55 chipped stone tools (44 non-diagnostic tools and eleven projectile points), one groundstone fragment, 3,394 debitage specimens, and 1,446 faunal specimens, representing at least six cultural occupations spanning 2720 years of the Archaic period, including the transition period between the Opal and Pine Spring phases.

Cite this Record

Archaeological Excavation at Site 48SW5815, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Heidi Humphreys. The Wyoming Archaeologist. 59 (1): 3-24. 2015 ( tDAR id: 476505) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8476505

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Keywords

Culture
Opal Phase • Pine Spring Phase

Material
Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone

Site Name
48SW5815

General
Basin • Chert • early late holocene • Elko • Hunter-Gatherer • late middle holocene • mesic neoglacial • Obsidian • Quartzite • xeric altithermal

Geographic Keywords
Green River Basin

Temporal Keywords
Early Archaic • Late Archaic • Late Prehistoric • Middle Archaic

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Marcia Peterson

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