Formative Period Changes in Regional Interaction and Influence in Nine Mile Canyon, Utah

Summary

Fundamental issues regarding the interaction of the formative inhabitants of Nine Mile Canyon with their neighbors in Castle Valley and the Uinta Basin relate to temporally distinct changes identified in the canyon’s archaeological record. Arguments pertaining to changes in land use patterns, artifact assemblages, and the development of seemingly defensive structures hinge on connecting distinct material cultural characteristics with chronometric data to develop a first approximation of shifting regional influences that likely occurred in the canyon between AD 200 and AD 1200. Evidence of regional influence and exchange are evaluated in light of a scaled down version of the peer-polity interaction model to identify possible mechanisms associated with structural changes in the greater east-central Utah interaction sphere during the Formative period.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• What was "Fremont"? Advances in the Explanation and Archaeological Understanding of the Fremont Regional System

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