The Crooks Gap Housepit Site and Other Nearby Mid-Holocene Housepits

Author(s): Craig S. Smith; Marcia Peterson

Year: 2012

Summary

This article summarizes excavation results at the Crooks Gap Housepit site (Site 48FR6260) completed by Cardno ENTRIX in 2010 and then compares those results with 20 other excavated housepits at eight sites located within 20 km of the site (Figure 1). The results are provided in more detail in Peterson and Smith (2012). The Crooks Gap Housepit site is a multicomponent site situated in aeolian deposits near Crooks Creek in southeastern Fremont County, Wyoming. One of the components contains the remains of four housepits dating between 5420 and 5170 years BP. It is one of a growing number of sites in the Wyoming and Big Horn Basins containing excavated housepits dating to the mid-Holocene (Buenger and Goodrick 2011; Larson 1997; Rose 2008; Smith 2003). The site is in an area where 20 additional housepits have been excavated, thereby providing an opportunity to examine comparatively this subset of excavated housepits.

Cite this Record

The Crooks Gap Housepit Site and Other Nearby Mid-Holocene Housepits. Craig S. Smith, Marcia Peterson. The Wyoming Archaeologist. 56 (1): 27-57. 2012 ( tDAR id: 476485) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8476485

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Keywords

Culture
Great Divide Phase • James Allen • Lovell

Material
Chipped Stone • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone • Macrobotanical

Site Name
48FR2330 • 48FR6260 • 48HO120 • Arapahoe Creek Housepit • Crooks Gap Housepit • Headlining • Jeffrey City • Medicine House • Moneta Divide Housepit • Sheep Mountain • Sinclair • Split Rock Ranch • Two-Fisted Manos

General
Basin • frontier complex • Heat Altered Rock • Holocene • opal phase • Pleistocene • wyoming basin

Geographic Keywords
Bighorn Basin • Green Mountain • Green River Basin • Wind River Basin

Temporal Keywords
Early Archaic • Late Paleoindian • Middle Archaic

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Marcia Peterson

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