42SA8506 (Site Name Keyword)
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This final report documents the results of archeological inventory, excavation, and analysis of prehistoric cultural resources within a 45-kilometer (28-mile) long corridor in the Island-in-the-Sky District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah. During three field seasons of survey, mapping, and excavation in 1983-1985, the research team recorded 32 artifact scatters, plotted 90,000 prehistoric artifacts and 250 historic items, completed 600 one-square-meter test pits, and conducted 10 block...
POLLEN AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS FROM ISLAND-IN-THE-SKY, CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK, UTAH (1988)
Pollen and macrofloral analysis at ten sites in Canyonlands National Park was designed to address several different elements of the paleoenvironmental and subsistence records. Pollen samples from the present ground surface were collected to characterize the modern pollen record with respect to the modern vegetation. Stratigraphic samples were collected from three sites to provide an accurate view of paleoenvironmental conditions in the vicinity of Gray's Pasture at Island-in-the-Sky during...