The Chronology of Basketmaker Perishable Craft Traditions in Southeastern Utah and Their Potential as Cross-Dating Proxies
Author(s): Laurie Webster
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The Cedar Mesa Perishables Project has documented almost 5,000 perishable artifacts from alcoves in southeastern Utah. As part of this research, the project has radiocarbon-dated more than 100 well-preserved textiles, sandals, baskets, wooden implements, and other perishable artifacts from Grand Gulch, Butler Wash, Allen Canyon, and Glen Canyon, creating the largest dataset of directly dated perishable artifacts from this region. With 80% of the sample represented by Basketmaker technologies, these data offer new insights into the chronological development of early Ancestral Pueblo perishable technologies and a more nuanced understanding of long-term technological and stylistic change during the 200 BC–AD 750 period. The potential use of Basketmaker sandals and other perishable artifacts as preceramic dating proxies is explored.
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The Chronology of Basketmaker Perishable Craft Traditions in Southeastern Utah and Their Potential as Cross-Dating Proxies. Laurie Webster. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499318)
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Geographic Keywords
North America: Southwest United States
Spatial Coverage
min long: -124.365; min lat: 25.958 ; max long: -93.428; max lat: 41.902 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 38209.0