Images of the Uinta Fremont (A.D. 0 - 1300)

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Images of the Uinta Fremont (A.D. 0 - 1300)" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Uinta Fremont resided in what is now the northeastern corner of Utah between A.D. 300 - 1300. They participated in the corn lifeway of Pueblo cousins to the south, but unlike peoples in the Four Corners less is understood about the ideology, identities, and social history of these people. Research in this session centers on the rock imagery (aka rock art) of the Uinta Fremont as a lens through which to focus archaeological attention on these subjects.

Other Keywords
Chronology • Digital Archaeology: GIS • Dating Techniques: Radiometric • North America: California and Great Basin

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  • Cephasylogy and "Trophy Heads" in Fremont Culture (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Spencer Diaz.

    This is an abstract from the "Images of the Uinta Fremont (A.D. 0 - 1300)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The presence of flayed scalps, severed heads, and ears (henceforth referred to as cephasiles) preserved in the archaeological record of the Southwest United States suggest a greater diversity in significance than simply a status-granting warrior’s symbol, as previously thought. In this paper the author makes an argument in favor of three...

  • Classic Vernal Style Necklaced Anthropomorphs: Continuity and Change, AD 500-1300 (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynda McNeil.

    This is an abstract from the "Images of the Uinta Fremont (A.D. 0 - 1300)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Northern Uinta Basin Rock Image Recording Project (NURIRP) documents 451 anthropomorphs representing an array of attributes, most importantly necklace types. In this presentation, I identify three sub-styles of CVS anthros wearing necklaces: (1) seven variants of a solid-pecked or abraded “collar” necklace, often with a vertical midline...

  • Classic Vernal Style Shield-bearers in Uinta Fremont Iconography (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Hora.

    This is an abstract from the "Images of the Uinta Fremont (A.D. 0 - 1300)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent decades, scholarship about pre-contact Plains and Pueblo shields have referenced a region in Utah’s Uinta Basin that is seemingly a hot spot for shield iconography among the Fremont (A.D. 300 - 1300). The rock imagery classification of Classic Vernal Style makes room for shields and shield-bearers as possibly a variant located in...

  • Fremont Archaeology in Dinosaur National Monument (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Willison.

    This is an abstract from the "Images of the Uinta Fremont (A.D. 0 - 1300)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dinosaur National Monument, situated in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado, is home to over 1,000 documented archaeological sites and has been the source of archaeological survey and excavation efforts for the past 80 years. Many sites within the Monument date to the Fremont era (300 - 1300 CE) and include rock art, habitation, and...

  • Geographic Patterning in Classic Vernal Style and Uinta Fremont Rock Imagery: An Exploratory GIS Analysis (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan McGrath.

    This is an abstract from the "Images of the Uinta Fremont (A.D. 0 - 1300)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to explore the spatial distribution of Classic Vernal Style and Uinta Fremont Rock imagery. The objective is to identify patterns and influences in their placement, considering factors such as proximity to water sources, types of sites, and potential constraining elements. The analysis...

  • Rain-Beings and Rock Art: An Analysis of Cultural Syncretism in the Uinta Basin (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalia Isakson.

    This is an abstract from the "Images of the Uinta Fremont (A.D. 0 - 1300)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent literature surrounding the Fremont of the Uinta Basin has focused heavily on the cultural connections formed in the region, including the impacts of the introduction of maize agriculture on the existing forager population. This confluence of peoples is reflected in the rock imagery present throughout the basin, which exhibits traits...

  • Who's That Figure?: Eastern and Western Basketmakers in the Uinta Basin through the lens of Rock Imagery (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaylee Criddle.

    This is an abstract from the "Images of the Uinta Fremont (A.D. 0 - 1300)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent research within the Uinta Basin suggests that proto-Kiowa-speaking Eastern Basketmakers and pre-Hopi-speaking Western Basketmakers migrated together into the Uinta Basin throughout several generations, and were included in the umbrella of the “Fremont culture” of the Uinta Basin. Due to this mutual migration, Eastern and Western...