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 101-193 of 193)

  • Documents (193)
  1. The Hilight Petroglyph Boulder, Historic Period Rock Art in Northeastern Wyoming (2001)
  2. Historic Japanese Sites of Southwestern Wyoming Revised and Revisited: Japanese Rock Art and Tombstones: Immigration Patterns on the Northern Plains and in the Rocky Mountains (2001)
  3. Historic Logging in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Southern Wyoming: Investigations of a Historic Logging Landscape (2009)
  4. Historic Resource Evaluation and Assessment of Potential Effects for the Bureau of Land Management Spring Valley Orphaned Oil Well Plugging Project in Uinta County, Wyoming (2009)
  5. Hunter-Gatherer Canid Petroglyphs in the Wind River and Bighorn Basins of Wyoming (2001)
  6. Hunter-Gatherer Mobility from the Early Archaic to the Late Prehistoric Period: Investigations at the Hogsback Site (48UT2516), a Housepit Site in Southwestern Wyoming (2007)
  7. “I Was in the Thick of the Fight:” Counting Coup at 48SW82, Southwestern Wyoming (2011)
  8. Inman Buffalo Site (1996)
  9. An Introduction to the Excavations at the Garrett Allen Site (48CR301), Carbon County, Wyoming (2013)
  10. A Late Prehistoric Bison Jump (48CK1281) Crook County, Wyoming (2004)
  11. Late Prehistoric Life Along Laprele Creek: Evidence for Broad Spectrum Hunting and Gathering at 48CO2672 (2003)
  12. Latex Molds of Petroglyphs at Legend Rock and Torrey Lake, Wyoming (2015)
  13. Latex Peels: A Method for Preserving Natural and Cultural Stratigraphy (2006)
  14. Lithic Analysis from Two Prehistoric Sites (48NA312 AND 48NA2516) Near Martin's Cove, Natrona County, Wyoming (2006)
  15. Lithic Artifacts of the Firehole Basin Site (48SW1217) (2007)
  16. Lithic Materials and Fort Bridger (2001)
  17. The Little Bald Mountain Site (2008)
  18. Lost Somewhere in the Middle-Range: Current Trends in North American Archaeology (1997)
  19. The Malli Goshen Site, Campbell County, Northeastern Wyoming (2002)
  20. A Mallory Site (48AB396) in the Snowy Range Mountains of Southeastern Wyoming (2011)
  21. A Metal Knife from the Hog Park Area, Carbon County, Wyoming (2008)
  22. A Middle Range Research Project in Fire Pit Technology (1997)
  23. The Mountain Meadow Ranch Burial from Southeastern Wyoming (1994)
  24. "My Name Was Made High:" A Crow War Record at 48HO9 (2011)
  25. "My Name Was Made High:" A Crow War Record at 48HO9 (2010)
  26. New Information from the Reanalyses of a Frontier Burial from Fort Caspar, Wyoming (2001)
  27. A Notched Tool from the Hell Gap Site Area I (1995)
  28. Obsidian Source Utilization at the Trappers Point Antelope Kill Site 48SU1006 (2002)
  29. Obsidian Utilization in Prehistoric Jackson Hole (1995)
  30. Outlaws and Horse Corrals (1999)
  31. Overview of Wind River Basin Rock Art (1995)
  32. Pamplin Pipes in Wyoming (1999)
  33. Pecked Petroglyphs at the Gateway Site: The Uncompahgre Style In the Green River Basin (2014)
  34. A Popular Spot: Four Thousand Years of Occupation at the Battle Spring West Site (48SW16604) In the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming (2013)
  35. Prehistoric Obsidian Utilization in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana and Wyoming (1996)
  36. Prehistoric Obsidian Utilization in the Central Rocky Mountains: The Lookingbill Site 48FR308 (1994)
  37. A Prehistoric Stone Line Complex from Northwest Wyoming (1997)
  38. A Preliminary Assessment of Archaeological Content in News Media (2008)
  39. Preliminary Report of Salvage Excavations at the Hell Gap Site, 48GO305 (1995)
  40. President Pipes: Origin and Distribution (2006)
  41. Probable Edible and Medicinal Flora Used by Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Groups in the Bighorn and Wind River Basins of North Central Wyoming (2002)
  42. Projectile Points from the Garrett Allen (Elk Mountain) Site, 48CR301 (2019)
  43. Pronghorn Procurement at the Bear River Site (48GO22), Southeastern Wyoming (2010)
  44. A Radiocarbon Date on the Residue Adhering to a Steatite Vessel from Southern Wyoming (1995)
  45. The Raid Lake Sheep massacre (2003)
  46. Reconnaissance Survey of the Big Horn County, Montana, Bison Jump-and-Kill Site (2000)
  47. Refelctions on Repatriation: Images of Academic America in the Mirror of NAGPRA (1999)
  48. A Report on the Medicine Wheel Investigation (2008)
  49. Results of the 2003 Hell Gap Investigation (2003)
  50. Review of A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest (1993)
  51. Review of Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture (2013)
  52. Review of Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture (2012)
  53. Review of Ancient Visions: Petroglyphs and Pictographs from the Wind River and Bighorn Country, Wyoming and Montana (2001)
  54. Review of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Omaha Indians - The Big Village Site (1993)
  55. Review of Archaeology on the Great Plains (2001)
  56. Review of Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle (1993)
  57. Review of Changing Perspectives of the Archaic on the Northwest Plains and Rocky Mountains (1999)
  58. Review of Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts (1993)
  59. Review of Hell Gap; A Stratified Paleoindian Campsite at the Edge of the Rockies (2009)
  60. Review of Logging the Rockies (1994)
  61. Review of Photography in Archaeology and Conservation (1996)
  62. Review of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies (2011)
  63. Review of Red Desert: History of a Place (2010)
  64. Review of Skeletal Biology in the Great Plains: Migration Warfare, Health, and Subsistence (1995)
  65. Review of Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art of the Black Hills Country (2003)
  66. Review of Supplying Custer: The Powder River Supply Depot, 1876 (2013)
  67. Review of The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations 1795-1840 (1995)
  68. Review of The Cheyenne/Arapaho Ledger Book from the Pamplin Collection (2003)
  69. Review of The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880: Uniforms, Weapons, and Equipment (1995)
  70. Review of Vertebrate Taphonomy (1995)
  71. Review of Window In Time: The Story of the Discovery of the Casper Site (1994)
  72. The SA Petroglyphs, Historic Period Rock Art in Northeastern Wyoming (2001)
  73. Scraped Stains: Middle Archaic and Late Prehistoric Features of Oven Town, Site 48FR5928, Fremont County, Wyoming (2010)
  74. The Sequence in Northern Plains Prehistory (2007)
  75. Shirtpocket Dig-Tionary (2008)
  76. Site 48JO303 (2004)
  77. Spoils of War: Petroglyphs of Captured Women at Red Canyon, 48FR2508 (2014)
  78. Stone Artifacts (2007)
  79. Stone Artifacts (2007)
  80. Stone Artifacts: Ceremonial and Problematical Artifacts (2007)
  81. Stone Artifacts: Classifications (2007)
  82. Stone Artifacts: Cutting Artifacts (2007)
  83. Stone Artifacts: Hunting and Warfare: The War Club (2007)
  84. Stone Artifacts: Perforating Artifacts (2007)
  85. Stone Artifacts: Scrapers (2007)
  86. Symbolism and Ritualistic Uses of the Bison Skull Among the Plains Indians of North America (2003)
  87. Test Excavations Along the Mormon Corral Wall: Fort Bridger, Wyoming (2011)
  88. Tragedy for Pompeii: Triumph for Archaeology (1997)
  89. Twentymile Biface: A Hilltop Offering in Northeastern Wyoming (2009)
  90. Ustinovka-VI Site: Recent Investigations of the Microblade Industries in the Maritime Region, Russian Far East (1995)
  91. Varieties of Corner-Notched Arrow Points In Wyoming (2021)
  92. Women and Children in the Evanston Chinatown (2004)
  93. The Wyoming Archaeological Society Joseph Cramer Grant and the 1990 Archaeological Investigations at 48CR4001: The Espy-Cornwell Site, Carbon County, Wyoming (1994)