Painted Pottery on the Fremont Frontier

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Frontiers are dynamic regions of integration and exclusion where identity and culture are negotiated. The relationships between the heartlands of the North American Southwest and many of its resulting frontiers have been explored; however, it is still not clear how interaction between Fremont peoples and those in the greater Southwest influenced identity and culture on this northern frontier. This poster uses painted pottery production, distribution, and use to explore Fremont within their broader regional context. The results of this analysis suggest Fremont painted designs are closely related to the design horizons produced in the Four Corners region during the A.D. 900s and early 1000s. These designs were adapted to create a distinctive Fremont design style that remained relatively static for nearly 300 years and is found in similar archaeological contexts across the region. When these results are situated within the social, demographic, and historical context of the greater Southwest, they suggest that during the Late Fremont Period, the region became a dynamic frontier of the northern Southwest where people maintained a shared social identity and used painted pottery to signal both a heritage in and separation from their southern neighbors.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38935.0