Peacekeeper Program Cultural Resources Technical Report 3: Southeastern Wyoming Prehistory, Volume 1

Part of the F.E. Warren AFB Project Metadata project

Author(s): Tetra Tech Inc.

Year: 1987

Summary

The report is the result of efforts by a number of individuals from two different firms. URS-Berger began preliminary evaluation of cultural resources for the Peacekeeper Program in 1983. Archaeological survey, testing, and mitigation studies were conducted in 1984 and 1985. The analysis of site and artifact data was done in 1984 and 1985, and the draft prehistoric report was completed early in 1985. In March 1985, Tetra Tech, Inc. succeeded URS-Berger as the Air Force consultant, and some former URS-Berger staff were retained during the completion of draft final reports. Tetra Tech's primary task has been the production of the final report, and editorial changes to the draft report have been kept to a minimum. The report is divided into two volumes. Volume I contains the main text and Volume II the appendices to the main volume. The fieldwork, undertaken between June 1983 and October 1984, included archaeological survey, subsurface shovel testing, surface collection, test excavation, and mitigation excavation. Seventeen prehistoric sites and 34 isolated artifacts were located on F.E. Warren AFB, and 26 prehistoric sites and 26 isolated artifacts were identified in the DA north and east of Cheyenne. This report is a detailed descriptive summary of all prehistoric data. It is designed to provide sufficient primary data for other researchers to test their own hypotheses about prehistoric systems in the region. Most summaries and comparisons employ only descriptive statistics. Because of the small sample sizes of most assemblages, the use of inferential statistics was not attempted.

Cite this Record

Peacekeeper Program Cultural Resources Technical Report 3: Southeastern Wyoming Prehistory, Volume 1, 3. Tetra Tech Inc.. 1987 ( tDAR id: 470773) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8470773

Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Early Archaic • Early Plains Archaic • Historic • Late Archaic • Late Holocene • Late Plains Archaic • Late Pleistocene • Late Prehistoric • Middle Archaic • Middle Plains Archaic • Middle Pleistocene • Mississippian • Pleistocene • Pliocene

Material
.22 Caliber Slugs • Abrader • Ash • Banded Chalcedony • Banded Chert • Biface • Bipolar Flake • Brick • Brown Chalcedony • Building Materials • Burned Soil • Ceramic • Chalcedony • Chalcedony Biface • Chalcedony Hammerstone • Charcoal • Charcoal Stain • Chert • Chert Scraper • Chipped Stone • Chopper • Clear Glass • Clinker • Core • Core-Irregular • Core-Regular • Cryptocrystalline Material • Dating Sample • Debitage Flake • Decortication Flake • Dendritic Cherts • Fauna • Faunal Tooth Enamel • Finishing-Sharpening Flakes • fire cracked cobbles • Fire Cracked Granite • Fire Cracked Quartzite • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Gold Chert • Granite • Granite Mano • Granite Metate • Gravel-Cobble Chalcedony • Grenade Fragment • Grinding Tool • Ground Stone • Hafted Biface • Hafted Biface Base • Hammerstone • Hartville Uplift Chalcedony • Imported Material • Irregular Cores • Leather • Light Retouch Flake • Local Coarser Rocks • Local Material • Local Unsourced Chalcedony • Local Unsourced Chert • Low-Grade Quartzite • Machine Gun Implacement • Mano • Mano - Metate • McKean Projectile Point • Metal • Milled Wood • Mineral • Minnelusa Formation Chalcedony • Minnelusa-like Mississippian age chert • Minnelusa-Source Chalcedony with Inclusions • Modified Flake Tool • Morrison Formation • Morrison Quartzite • Mortar Fragment • Moss Agate • Net Sinker • Nondendritic Cherts • Obsidian • Oxidized Fire Cracked Cobbles • Petrified Wood • Pink Chalcedony • Pressure Flake • Primary Flake • Projectile Point • Purple Chert • Quartz • Quartzite • Quartzite Biface • Quartzite Hammerstone • Quartzite Metate • Quartzite Projectile Point • Red Chert • Red Quartzite • Resharpening Flake • Sandstone • Sandstone Mano • Sandstone Metate • Scraper • Sedimentary • Shatter Chunk • Sheet Metal • Silicified Siltstone • Small Mammal Bone • Spanish Digging Quartzite • Spokeshave • Steatite • Tan Chert • Unhafted Bifaces • Utilized Cobbles • Whitish-Pink Chert Bifacial • Wire Nail • Wood Show More

Site Name
48-GO-202 • 48-GO-203 • 48-GO-204 • 48-LA-241 • 48-LA-245 • 48-LA-245A • 48-LA-245B • 48-LA-247 • 48-LA-250 • 48-LA-250A • 48-LA-250B • 48-LA-259 • 48-LA-265 • 48-LA-277 • 48-LA-279 • 48-LA-280 • 48-LA-286 • 48-LA-450 • 48-LA-473 • 48-LA-486 • 48-LA-498 • 48-LA-499 • 48-LA-500 • 48-LA-501 • 48-LA-502 • 48-LA-503 • 48-LA-71A • 48-LA-71B • 48-LA-71E • 48-LA-71J • 48-PL-217 • FEW 51 Show More

Site Type
Ancient Structure • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Baking Oven • Bridge • Cairn • Contemporary Motocross Bike Trail • Food Preparation Site • Hardened Cable Path • Hearth • High Density Base Camp • Historic Refuse Disposal Site • Historic Road Cut • Historic Structure • Indirect Heat Warming Hearth • Isolated Artifact • Isolated Feature • Isolated Prehistoric Artifact • Launch Facilities Site Work and Access Roads Modification • LF Road • LF Silos • Midden • Military Structure • Multicomponent Base Camp • Multi-component site • Non-Domestic Structures • Peripheral Refuse Disposal Area • Pit • Post Hole / Post Mold • Refuse Pit • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Road • Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features • Road Construction • Roads-Industrial Area • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Rock Alignment • Rock Cairn • Rock-Filled Pit • Secondary Refuse Site • Small Arms Range • Stage Storage Area • Structure • Temporary Campsite • Tool Maintenance Activities • Tool Manufacturing Area • Trail • Trash Midden • World War II Construction Staging Area Show More

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Ground Disturbance Monitoring • Heritage Management • Reconnaissance / Survey • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan • Site Evaluation / Testing • Systematic Survey

General
Component Effect Report • Peacekeeper Program • Redeposited Site • Surface Inspection • United States Air Force

Geographic Keywords
Arikaree Formation • Cheyenne, WY • Crow Creek • F.E. Warren Air Force Base • Hartville Uplift Anticline • High Plains • Horse Creek • Horse Creek Floodplain • Horse Creek Valley • Laramie Mountains • Laramie Range • Minnelusa Formations • Ogallala Formation • Wyoming (State / Territory)

Temporal Keywords
Early 20th Century • Early Holocene • Early Plains Archaic • Historic • Late Plains Archaic • Late Pleistocene • Late Prehistoric • Middle Plains Archaic • MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE • Pleistocene Glacial Period • Pliocene • Post Altithermal Age • Prehistoric • Upper Miocene

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 900 to 1040 (BETA - 10723)

Calendar Date: 1470 to 1630 (BETA-10409)

Calendar Date: 5090 to 5310 (Sediment Fill from Hearth Feature)

Calendar Date: 1900 to 1950 (Historic Refuse Material)

Calendar Date: 5260 to 5560 (Sediment Fill from Hearth Feature)

Calendar Date: 885 to 885 (Stratum 12: Site No. 48-LA-247)

Calendar Date: 3080 to 3280 (BETA-10407)

Calendar Date: 819 to 990 (A Horizon Dating Sample: Site No. 48-LA-277)

Calendar Date: -4276 to -4276 (Feature 1: Site No. 48-LA-247)

Calendar Date: 1070 to 1230 (BETA - 10722)

Calendar Date: 640 to 800 (BETA-10406)

Calendar Date: -4070 to -4070 (Feature 3: Site No. 48-LA-247)

Calendar Date: 1010 to 1150 (BETA- 10003)

Calendar Date: 1670 to 1830 (BETA-10408)

Calendar Date: -4276 to -4276 (Feature 1: Site No. 48-LA-247)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -104.898; min lat: 41.129 ; max long: -104.83; max lat: 41.211 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): F.E. Warren Air Force Base CRM Manager

Record Identifiers

FEW AFB Project #(s): 870100

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