Wyoming Archaeologist 1999

DOCUMENT Full-Text Larry J. Zimmerman.

The topic of Archaeology Awareness Month “Who Owns the Past?” is most perplexing. As an archaeologist, I have been trained to respect the past, both by trying to explore it through archaeological research and to protect it from the depredations of looting, construction and other forces that destroy its remains. Like many of my colleagues, I have understood the archaeological past to be a public heritage, one that no one could own. However, through a quarter-century professional career in...

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Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 43, Issue 1

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Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 43, Issue 2

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Darlington. Josh Bodyfelt.

Investigations of a juniper fence located at Powder Springs, in southwest Wyoming, suggest it was constructed in the late 19th century and used as a horse pasture. It was initially speculated the fence was the remains of a late prehistoric or proto-historic big game procurement complex. However, tree-ring dating provided late 19th Century dates for construction of the fence. Historical research indicates that during the late 19th century, Powder Springs was occupied by an outlaw element which...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James J. Stewart.

Several white, cream, tan, red, brown, gray, and black clay [terra cotta) elbow pipes or pipe fragments representative of the exploratory, fur trading, westward immigration, and pioneer homesteading periods have been found in Wyoming. Information to identify the origins, models, and dates of those 19th Century clay trade pipes is relatively unavailable. However, Raymond C. Dickerson, owner of the Pamplin Pipe Factory, Pamplin, Virginia, has shared a great deal of information about elbow clay...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roger Echo.

A dynamic landscape of relations exists between Native Americans and the American academic community, and as the final days of the 20th century approach, it is important for us to contemplate the legacy of relationships we will pass along to our successors. The topic of repatriation has played a prominent role in shaping this legacy in recent years particularly for archaeologists. Repatriation presents us with an enormously complex issue rooted in historical circumstances that have often been...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Russel L. Tanner.

Review of Changing Perspectives of the Archaic on the Northwest Plains and Rocky Mountains