Excavating the Archives: A Reanalysis of Artifacts Recovered from Catclaw Cave

Summary

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

In 1949, a master’s student at the University of Arizona, Barton Wright, undertook the first salvage excavation project at Catclaw Cave in anticipation of the construction of Davis Dam. The assemblage recovered by Wright and his team remains one of the best persevered dry shelter collections recovered from the region. This poster represents the results of the reanalysis of artifacts recovered from Catclaw Cave in order to better determine use and habitation of the Lower Colorado River Valley prior to contact with Europeans, utilizing museum-based archaeological approaches that promote collaboration between Indigenous and descendant communities, researchers, museums, and federal agencies.

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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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 36938.0