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DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Riley.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Perishable Weaponry Studies: Developing Perspectives from Dated Contexts to Experimental Analyses" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological sites in the high dry deserts of Eastern Utah have yielded remarkably preserved collections of perishable technological components of past lifeways. This includes many examples of projectile weaponry. These objects can add direct evidence to studies focused on the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from sites 42Cb827 and 42Cb829, Utah, for the BLM Ninemile - Daddy Canyon testing project. Test pits were excavated at the base of several Fremont petroglyph panels at both sites. A hearth overlain with a small sandstone slab was encountered at 42Cb827. The hearth fill was examined for macrofloral remains, while sediment from the occupation surface adjacent to the hearth was sampled for both pollen and macrofloral remains. Pollen and macrofloral...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan. Chad Yost.

This Fremont residential site (42EM53) is situated on a ridge top west of Muddy Creek in Castle Valley, a broad valley with a highly varied topography. Samples from activity area fill, hearths, a pit structure, and a storage pit were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. A fire-cracked rock from the fill of a hearth and a grinding stone from one of the activity areas were examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). A side scraper from the activity...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Yaquinto. Sarah MacDonald.

To date Gilbert Wenger's 1956 thesis remains one of the most comprehensive studies completed on Fremont culture within the Colorado Bureau of Land Management, White River Field Office (WRFO). WRFO archaeologists have focused Section 110 program efforts over the course of the last four field seasons on Fremont sites documented by Wenger and others and also to identify new Fremont sites through archaeological field survey. This poster presentation provides a synthesis of inventory results...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Burns.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For settlement pattern analysis where territorial exclusion is assumed to be at play, Fretwell and Lucas's 1969 model is still the core explanation for IDD. Rather than focus on population density, it would be more in keeping with formal models of behavioral ecology to analyze the dynamic through marginal analysis. Established groups should defend...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cayla Kennedy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located in Utah’s northern Uinta Basin, the Cub Creek area of Dinosaur National Monument contains examples of Fremont pithouses, upland roasting features, diverse artifact assemblages, and panels of Classic-Vernal-style Fremont rock art. The Classic Vernal rock art style is characterized by geometric patterns, animals, and heavily stylized anthropomorphic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon Boomgarden. Ian Farrell. Jenna Foster. Duncan Metcalfe.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ten years ago, the archaeological field school at the Range Creek Field Station explicitly embarked on a new direction of research. Students continue to receive training in excavation and survey techniques but actualistic experiments were added to the curriculum. The experiments are designed to calculate the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Nash.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations at four Fremont sites in the Sevier Desert indicate settlement-subsistence strategies changed after AD 1000, shifting from short-term processing camps associated with logistical exploitation of resources to residential occupation and intensive processing of rabbits. These changes may have resulted from population growth and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judson Finley. Erick Robinson.

This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Climate-Human Population Dynamics During the Late Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Northeastern Utah’s Uinta Basin marks the northernmost extent of maize agriculture diffused from the American Southwest, with as many as a dozen distinct Fremont pithouse communities forming between AD 300-1350. Recent work in the Cub Creek locality of Dinosaur National Monument demonstrates that Fremont...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard E. Terry. Glenna Nielsen-Grimm. Deanne Matheny. Ray Matheny.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Research in Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many of the elements associated with foodstuffs and mineral ores were deposited in the surface of soils and floors of ancient dwellings. Phosphorus and certain heavy metals remain chemically sorbed on soil and floor particles. Soil samples were collected from ancient patios of two structures associated with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefania Wilks. Lisbeth Louderback. Shannon Boomgarden.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Archaeology in Range Creek Canyon, Utah" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A wealth of information on regional patterns of human subsistence and plant domestication has been generated from studies on the starch granules of *Zea mays (maize). Very little work, however, has been conducted on how the size and structural attributes of those grains might change if exposed to different environmental contexts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trista Schiele. Judson Finley. Erick Robinson.

This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Climate-Human Population Dynamics During the Late Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent work in Utah’s northern Uinta Basin shows close relationships between precipitation variability and population dynamics during the Fremont period, AD 300-1350. In this study, we evaluate the role that changes in the suitability of local dry-farming conditions had on observed regional settlement...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey Pazmino.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cub Creek area of Dinosaur National Monument has a Fremont occupation spanning from AD 300-1350 that shows variable reliance on maize agriculture depending on environmental conditions. Settlement data indicate a stable upland occupation throughout the sequence characterized by ~120 roasting features, but an intensive lowland pithouse occupation that lasted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Jepsen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ephemeral nature of many Fremont habitation sites has made site identification extremely difficult for Fremont archaeologists today. Unlike the standing and partially exposed ruins of their ancestral Puebloan neighbors, the Fremont left little evidence of their habitation across the region. Those that remain include structures now buried below the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Riley.

This is an abstract from the "Cordage, Yarn, and Associated Paraphernalia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cordage was vital in the daily life of Fremont farmers across the Colorado Plateau. Yet, this humble technology rarely receives the full attention of textile specialists, focused on the intricate half-rod and bundle coiled parching trays, yucca sandals, and other more impressive aspects of the perishable fiber record. This talk examines a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Musser-Lopez.

Though routine interaction may not have been the case, the Fremont were a part of the iconic world of the Virgin (Anasazi) Puebloan people who occupied southeastern Nevada north of Las Vegas in Evergreen Flats, 75 miles northwest the Lower Colorado River’s north end bend. Within that region is Petroglyph Corral visually demonstrating Puebloan people at a Fremont fringe area where the two cultures may have competed, collided or even collapsed into one another and the more recent Numic tribes. ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie Richards. Lindsay Johansson.

The meaning of the term Fremont has been heavily debated for almost as long as it has existed. For over half of a century many archaeologists have argued that the term is only useful in that it encapsulates the highly variable practices of a region. Others have argued that defining Fremont is impossible and even unproductive. We disagree with these assertions. We believe that there are sufficient similarities in material culture and social organization across the Fremont region to suggest that a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Riley.

Perched along the northern edge of the Colorado Plateau, the Tavaputs Plateau is best known among archaeologists for its interior canyons, including the incredible rock art in Nine Mile Canyon and the well-preserved Fremont communities located in Range Creek Canyon. Despite the greater water resources and arable land along the Book Cliffs escarpment of the plateau, it has received little professional attention. This research program focuses on a small segment along the Grassy Trail Creek, a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Stauffer. Lindsay Johansson.

The Fremont people were socially complex and lived within various sized communities. As with any community there are mechanisms used to either differentiate among members of the community or to integrate members of the community and beyond. One of these mechanisms is feasting. In this paper we present evidence from several large village sites across the Fremont region that suggests that the practice of feasting was utilized. In many cases, evidence for feasting is associated with structures that...