Refining the Chronology of Basketmaker II Perishable Craft Production in Southeastern Utah

Summary

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

During the past decade, the Cedar Mesa Perishables Project has documented nearly 5,000 perishable artifacts from alcoves in southeastern Utah. As part of this work, the project has generated about 100 radiocarbon dates from well-preserved woven textiles, sandals, baskets, wooden implements, and other perishable items from the Grand Gulch, Butler Wash, Allen Canyon, and Glen Canyon areas, resulting in the largest dataset of directly dated perishable artifacts from this region. With 80 percent of the sample represented by Basketmaker technologies, these data offer new insights into the origins and development of early Ancestral Pueblo perishable technologies; the cultural practices, technical knowledge, and learning networks of these early weavers and woodworkers; and a more nuanced understanding of long-term technological and stylistic change in Basketmaker perishable craft production for the period 200 BC-AD 700.

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): 36911.0