Settlement Patterns and Land Use on the Shivwits Plateau: Insights from a Cultural Resources Inventory on the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeological research on Virgin Branch Puebloan groups has primarily focused on the Moapa Valley and lowland Virgin areas, despite widespread occupation across modern-day southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and northwestern Arizona. Only a small percentage of the Shivwits Plateau has undergone study by cultural resource inventories or academic excavations. This poster utilizes data from a cultural inventory of 1800 acres conducted prior to an undertaking within the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. The results of this inventory and the density of cultural material identified lends itself well to a small-scale analysis of settlement patterns and land use areas on the Shivwits Plateau. The identified site types and their associated cultural material indicate continuous occupation of the area with a potential change in land use through time.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36078.0