Wyoming Archaeologist 2011
Part of: Wyoming Archaeological Society
Site Name Keywords
Mummy Cave •
48PA201 •
Fort Bridger •
Coal Draw •
Carter •
Hell Gap •
River Bend •
Daugherty Cave •
Lindenmeier •
Horner
Other Keywords
Trade •
Incised •
Charcoal •
war •
Pawnee •
Hunting •
Stratigraphy •
Paleoenvironment •
Ecology •
Elbow Pipe
Culture Keywords
Shoshone •
Crow/Hidasta •
Ute •
McKean •
PaleoIndian •
Clovis •
Folsom •
Historic •
Sioux •
Agate Basin
Material Types
Chipped Stone •
Fauna •
Ceramic •
Dating Sample •
Fire Cracked Rock •
Glass •
Ground Stone •
Building Materials •
Human Remains •
Macrobotanical
Temporal Keywords
Middle Archaic •
Historic •
Late Prehistoric •
Late Archaic •
Modern •
Protohistoric •
Early Archaic •
Middle Paleoindian •
Early Paleoindian
Geographic Keywords
Green River Basin •
California •
Bighorn Basin •
Medicine Bow Mountains •
Montana •
United States •
North Dakota •
Wyoming
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A Context for the 48SW14906 Soapstone Pipe Fragment (2011)
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A soapstone pipe fragment was found at 48SW14906, an NRHP-eligible prehistoric site near the Eden Reservoir in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, by archaeologists working for Kail Consulting. Prehistoric chipped stone bifaces, metaquartzite and chert debitage, and five fire-cracked rock scatters were also found at 48SW14906.
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Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 55, Issue 1 (2011)
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Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 55, Issue 1
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Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 55, Issue 2 (2011)
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Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 55, Issue 2
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“I Was in the Thick of the Fight:” Counting Coup at 48SW82, Southwestern Wyoming (2011)
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Coup counting is a central theme of Plains Biographic art in all media, occurring both as scenes of personal combat and as tallies of unfortunate enemies on whom coup has been counted. While combat scenes are undoubtedly the most common Biographic art depiction (Figure 1), tallies proclaiming a career’s worth of accomplishments resulting from a series of such combat episodes are more frequent than has been portrayed in the Biographic art literature. [...] One such Biographic coup count tally and...
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A Mallory Site (48AB396) in the Snowy Range Mountains of Southeastern Wyoming (2011)
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Site 48AB396 was located in 1982 during a class III cultural resource survey of the Rob Roy Reservoir project in Albany County, Wyoming (Eckles and Scott 1983). The site is located on the eastern side of Douglas Creek at 9240 ft in the Snowy Range Mountains of southeastern Wyoming. Archaeological excavations (Figure 1) were conducted at the site in 1983 by the Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist (Reiss 1985). Seventy one meter square units were excavated with three sediment horizons being...
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"My Name Was Made High:" A Crow War Record at 48HO9 (2011)
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Until quite recently the Bighorn Basin has not been known for its Biographic rock art imagery. In fact, in their excellent overview of the region, Francis and Loendorf (2002:179-183) note only two sites in the Bighorn Basin proper—Military Creek and Mahogany Buttes—that contain horses and riders, and both of those are in the Bighorn Mountain foothills on the basin’s extreme eastern edge.1 They also note (Francis and Loendorf 2002:181) that “illustrations of Historic period weaponry are less...
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Review of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies (2011)
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Review of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies
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Test Excavations Along the Mormon Corral Wall: Fort Bridger, Wyoming (2011)
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Test excavations were conducted November 31 and December 1, 1989 along the south side of the Mormon Wall to determine whether intact historic deposits were present in the area. Since the 1989 excavations, much has been learned about the Mormon Occupation at Fort Bridger and we have gained a better comprehension of the nature and activities of the Mormon Colonies in the area. What follows is the original report in total with new sections of: 1) a historic overview, 2) a discussion of the...