Wyoming Archaeologist 2008

Part of: Wyoming Archaeological Society

Site Name Keywords
Little Bald Mountain • Medicine Wheel

Other Keywords
Knife • Stone Circle • Iron • Hunting Camp • Stone Artifacts • Dictionary • Public Education • Newspaper • Charcoal • Gear

Culture Keywords
Undifferentiated Native American • Historic

Material Types
Ceramic • Fauna • Metal • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Ground Stone • Mineral • Shell • Wood

Temporal Keywords
Protohistoric • Modern • Historic • Late Archaic • Late Prehistoric

Geographic Keywords
Bighorn Mountains • North America • South America • Sierra Madre Mountains • Wyoming

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  • Documents (7)
  • Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 52, Issue 1 (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jim deVos

    Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 52, Issue 1

  • Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 52, Issue 2 (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jim deVos

    Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 52, Issue 2

  • The Little Bald Mountain Site (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Raymond C. Bentzen.

    In 1945, while surface-hunting for artifacts in the high country of the Big Horn Mountains, I discovered what appeared to be an ancient village site and buffalo-killing area situated in a saddle on the main divide immediately south of Little Bald Mountain at an elevation of 9,000 feet. Two small drainage ditches for the then little-used Wyoming Highway #14 had exposed arrowheads and bison bones, and an itinerant sheepherder informed me that in past years his daughter had gathered many buffalo...

  • A Metal Knife from the Hog Park Area, Carbon County, Wyoming (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark E. Miller. James Buff.

    The Hog Park knife joins a growing list of interesting artifacts from Wyoming that defy precise chronological or cultural identification. Isolated artifacts like these are important to our understanding of human adaptations in the area, but their lack of context and association with other objects makes it difficult for identification. Nonetheless, this piece needed to be described in case similar finds are known, and more detailed knowledge of their form and function is available.

  • A Preliminary Assessment of Archaeological Content in News Media (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Adam S. Wiewel.

    The media provide a great opportunity to communicate archaeology to a broad audience, and newspapers are the primary means for receiving news for millions of Americans. I examine the archaeological content of newspaper articles in the New York Times from June and December of 1995, 2000, and 2005 to document geographical, chronological, and topical emphases as well as the portrayal of archaeology in the media. This study suggests that the public has a vague and unclear understanding of...

  • A Report on the Medicine Wheel Investigation (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Wyoming Archaeological Society.

    The archaeological investigation of the famed Medicine Wheel was undertaken with some trepidation because of two conditions imposed upon the operation. First, the excavation permit from the Forest Service contained the express restriction that no stones of the structure were to be disturbed. Second, the site had been badly disturbed by souvenir hunters since its discovery in the late 1880s. The extent of this disturbance was crucial in interpreting the results of the investigation, and a...

  • Shirtpocket Dig-Tionary (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Leniegh Schrinar.

    Here is your ‘Don’t leave home without it’ list of highly important personal field gear.