Carbon County, Utah (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Thomas E. Moutoux. Laura Ruggiero.

Site 42CB 1279 in Carbon County, Utah, exhibits rock art evidence of occupations during the Archaic, Fremont, and probable Numic (Ute) time period affiliations. A shallow alcove adjacent to the rock art panels contained a single-component Numic (Ute) occupation. A cultural horizon in the alcove exhibited charcoal-stained soil, faunal materials, and lithic artifacts. No hearth, processing pits, or groundstone were noted in the occupational layer. Pollen and floatation samples were collected...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Seven sites in Nine Mile Canyon, Carbon County, Utah, were excavated during monitoring of the Bill Barrett Corporation’s Peters Point to Dry Canyon Pipeline. A total of 17 fill samples collected from various thermal features that included a roasting pit, a hearth, features associated with two pit structures, unprepared hearths, a possible buried hearth, soil stains, and an unknown feature were submitted for pollen and macrofloral analysis. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide...