48CA61 (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brent A. Buenger.

The excavated cultural deposit at the Pathfinder Ranch site (48CR332) yielded five cultural components dating to the Uinta phase of the Late Prehistoric (Component 1), the Deadman Wash phase of the Late Archaic (Components 1-2), and the Pine Spring phase of the Late Archaic (Components 3-5). The cultural materials recovered from the five components suggests the occupations represent temporally punctuated short-term hunter-gatherer camps likely characterized by large mammal faunal resource...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark E. Miller. Galen R. Burgett.

Test excavations at the Cache Hill site (48CA61) in Campbell County, Wyoming exposed a thick bison bonebed in the bottom of an arroyo formed by a first order tributary in the Powder River drainage basin. A radiocarbon date and comparisons with other assemblages show a Late Prehistoric context for the bison kill-butchery event. Current taphonomic and archaeological models for bonebed accumulation, distribution, and dispersal are considered to aid in interpreting site structure. The research...