Wyoming Archaeological Society

The Wyoming Archaeologist is a publication of the Wyoming Archaeological Society, a non-profit organization founded to preserve archaeological resources, disseminate archaeological information, and promote archaeological research in Wyoming. The Wyoming Archaeologist has been published continuously since 1958, when its original incarnation “The Smoke Signal” was published in March of that year. Since then, the Wyoming Archaeologist has published over 200 issues and continues to do so today.

This collection is comprised of technical reports, research articles, book reviews, business of the Wyoming Archaeological Society, and other foundational knowledge regarding Wyoming archaeology published in the Wyoming Archaeologist. We have parsed the journal into individual content items for referencing and ease of dissemination. When complete, the collection will be comprised of over 1,000 individual files updated biannually as new issues are published. Contributions to the Wyoming Archaeologist are diverse, ranging from student papers about Wyoming bar graffiti to classic monographs regarding Wyoming archaeology by well known scholars.

We have tagged this collection with keywords to facilitate ease of research. From this page, you can search for publications by age, site type, material culture, and other fields to help guide your research toward relevant articles. We hope that this new digital format for the Wyoming Archaeologist will increase access to the journal and facilitate the dissemination of research regarding Wyoming’s human past.

This collection was created with support from the State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Site Name Keywords
Hell Gap • Mummy Cave • Garrett Allen • Elk Mountain • 48CR301 • 48GO305 • Medicine Lodge Creek • castle gardens • 48HO4 • River Bend

Other Keywords
Charcoal • Trade • NRHP • wyoming basin • Hunter-Gatherer • Pleistocene • Steatite • Burial • Rock Art • Basin

Culture Keywords
Undifferentiated Native American • Historic • Shoshone • PaleoIndian • McKean • Folsom • Crow/Hidasta • Clovis • Rose Spring • Besant

Material Types
Chipped Stone • Fauna • Ground Stone • Ceramic • Dating Sample • Metal • Fire Cracked Rock • Wood • Shell • Macrobotanical

Temporal Keywords
Late Prehistoric • Historic • Late Archaic • Middle Archaic • Early Archaic • Protohistoric • Late Paleoindian • Middle Paleoindian • Modern • Early Paleoindian

Geographic Keywords
Wyoming • Green River Basin • United States • North Platte Basin • Colorado • Bighorn Basin • Wind River Basin • Montana • Powder River Basin • Bighorn Mountains

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-100 of 193)

  • Documents (193)
  1. Another Elk Petroglyph from the Gateway Site: Some Possible Functional Implications (2005)
  2. Archaeological Collections Management: From Shoeboxes to Computer Systems (1997)
  3. Archaeological Excavation at Site 48SW5815, Sweetwater County, Wyoming (2015)
  4. Archaeological Excavation at the Confluence Housepit Site (48NA4588) (2014)
  5. Archaeological Excavation at the Ferris dune Site (48CR310) (2014)
  6. Archaeological Excavation at the Pathfinder Ranch Site (48CR332): A Stratified Multicomponent Site Located Near the Ferris Mountains of Central Wyoming (2014)
  7. Archaeological Investigations at the Bridge Tender's House Fort Fred Steele, Wyoming (1993)
  8. Archaeological Investigations at the MiniTrue Site (48UT1984) in the Green River Basin, Wyoming (2012)
  9. An Assessment of the Newly Discovered Upper Powder Spring Sites: A Hunting Complex in Southwest Wyoming (1993)
  10. Atypical Stone Artifacts from the Garrett Allen (Elk Mountain) Site, 48CR301 (2019)
  11. "Bear Coming Out": A Distinctive Plains Shield Motif (2004)
  12. Besant-Woodland Artifacts from the Cedar Gap Site (48NA83) In Northwestern Natrona County, Wyoming (2012)
  13. Bioarchaeological Resources on the Northwestern Plains: A Bibliography (1996)
  14. The Bozovich Family Archaeological Collection (1996)
  15. A Brief Description of Helen Lookingbill's Southern Sublette County Collection (2000)
  16. The Cache Hill Site (48CA61): A Bison Kill-Butchery Site in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming (2000)
  17. A Canid Foot Bone Bead Workshop at a Bison Hunting Camp in the Powder River Basin (2002)
  18. Castle Gardens Ceramic Vessel (2002)
  19. Ceramics from the EKW #1 Site (48NA969), Natrona County, Wyoming (2010)
  20. Chipped Stone Artifacts (2007)
  21. Chipped Stone Raw Materials from the Garrett Allen (Elk Mountain) Site, 48CR301 (2015)
  22. Clovis Testing at the Hell Gap Baars Locality: 2003-2004 (2004)
  23. The Conservation of Archaeological Metals: The Copper Alloy Cartridge Cases and Lead Slugs from Wyoming's Fort Fred Steele (2000)
  24. A Context for the 48SW14906 Soapstone Pipe Fragment (2011)
  25. Core and Peripheries: Chinese Communities in Southwestern Wyoming, 1869-1922 (2005)
  26. Crazy Woman Cave, Northern Wyoming: Abraded Grooves and the Potential for Prehistoric Rock Art Among Modern Graffiti (2020)
  27. The Crazy Woman Cody Site, Johnson County, Northeastern Wyoming (2002)
  28. The Crooks Gap Housepit Site and Other Nearby Mid-Holocene Housepits (2012)
  29. Data Recovery and Mapping in the Finley Site Area, 1987 (2009)
  30. Data Recovery at Site 48SH1740 Associated with Little Horn River Watershed Amp Class III Cultural Inventory on the Bighorn National Forests Medicine Wheel and Tongue Ranger Districts (2015)
  31. The DeBarard Earth Oven (48AB3354): Hot Rock Cooking In the Laramie Basin (2021)
  32. Differentiating Between Human and Non-Human Predation of Small Mammals in the Archaeological Record (2006)
  33. Differentiating Human and Non-Human Impacts on Leporid Remains: A Comparison of Rabbit Bone Cave (48PA202) and Wolf Den Cave (48BH1796) Faunal Assemblages (2004)
  34. Disputing the Past: Challenging Archaeology's Role (1999)
  35. An Early Historic Period Horse Skeleton from Southwestern Wyoming (1994)
  36. Early Prehistoric Period: Clovis Points (2007)
  37. Early Prehistoric Period: Folsom Points (2007)
  38. Early Prehistoric Period: Midland Points (2007)
  39. Early Prehistoric Period: Sandia Points (2007)
  40. Engendered Comics and Social Interdependency: An Ethnography of the University of Wyoming Visiting Archaeological Scholars' Laboratory (1994)
  41. Excavation at Four Sites (48SW7456, 48SW7457, 48SW15052, 48SW17323) Within the Bridger Coal Company Underground Mine Lease Area (2013)
  42. Excavations at 48CR103 Near Savery Creek, Carbon County, Wyoming (2012)
  43. Faunal Remains from the Garrett Allen (Elk Mountain) Site (48CR301) (2020)
  44. Fort McKinney Hospital Building Historic Graffiti Documentation Project December 11, 2004 (2007)
  45. Fracture Patterns of Bones in Archaeological Contexts: Significance of the Casper Site Materials (2005)
  46. The Fremont and Plant Resouces Along the Colorado-Wyoming Border (2002)
  47. Freshwater Mussel Identification and Analysis from the River Bend Site, 48NA202 (2005)
  48. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 37, Issues 1-2 (1993)
  49. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 37, Issues 3-4 (1993)
  50. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 38, Issues 1-2 (1994)
  51. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 38, Issues 3-4 (1994)
  52. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 39, Issues 1-2 (1995)
  53. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 39, Issues 3-4 (1995)
  54. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 40, Issue 1 (1996)
  55. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 40, Issue 2 (1996)
  56. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 41, Issue 1 (1997)
  57. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 41, Issue 2 (1997)
  58. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 43, Issue 1 (1999)
  59. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 43, Issue 2 (1999)
  60. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 44, Issue 1 (2000)
  61. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 44, Issue 2 (2000)
  62. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 45, Issue 1 (2001)
  63. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 45, Issue 2 (2001)
  64. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 46, Issue 1 (2002)
  65. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 46, Issue 2 (2002)
  66. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 47, Issue 1 (2003)
  67. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 47, Issue 2 (2003)
  68. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 48, Issue 1 (2004)
  69. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 48, Issue 2 (2004)
  70. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 49, Issue 1 (2005)
  71. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 49, Issue 2 (2005)
  72. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 50, Issue 1 (2006)
  73. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 50, Issue 2 (2006)
  74. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 51, Issue 1 (2007)
  75. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 51, Issue 2 (2007)
  76. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 52, Issue 1 (2008)
  77. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 52, Issue 2 (2008)
  78. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 53, Issue 1 (2009)
  79. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 53, Issue 2 (2009)
  80. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 54, Issue 1 (2010)
  81. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 54, Issue 2 (2010)
  82. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 55, Issue 1 (2011)
  83. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 55, Issue 2 (2011)
  84. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 56, Issue 1 (2012)
  85. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 56, Issue 2 (2012)
  86. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 57, Issue 1 (2013)
  87. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 57, Issue 2 (2013)
  88. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 58, Issue 1 (2014)
  89. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 58, Issue 2 (2014)
  90. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 59, Issue 1 (2015)
  91. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 59, Issue 2 (2015)
  92. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 63, Issue 1 (2019)
  93. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 63, Issue 2 (2019)
  94. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 64, Issue 1 (2020)
  95. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 64, Issue 2 (2020)
  96. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 65, Issue 1 (2021)
  97. Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 65, Issue 2 (2021)
  98. Grand Teton Climbing Routes as Historic Properties (2010)
  99. The Grass Creek Site (48HO120): A Middle Archaic Period Housepit, Hot Springs County, Wyoming (1993)
  100. Hafted Stone Tools: A Look at Hunter-Gatherer Examples from the Central and Northwestern Plains (2006)