Who's That Figure?: Eastern and Western Basketmakers in the Uinta Basin through the lens of Rock Imagery

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Images of the Uinta Fremont (A.D. 0 - 1300)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Recent research within the Uinta Basin suggests that proto-Kiowa-speaking Eastern Basketmakers and pre-Hopi-speaking Western Basketmakers migrated together into the Uinta Basin throughout several generations, and were included in the umbrella of the “Fremont culture” of the Uinta Basin. Due to this mutual migration, Eastern and Western Basketmakers are expected to have frequently interacted within the basin. This project intends to answer whether cultural differences between the Eastern Basketmakers and Western Basketmakers can be applied to Uinta Basin iconography. Applied methods include the analysis of rock imagery photography within the Uinta Basin to find common themes such as clothing, hairstyles, and adornments in an attempt to determine the interaction of these two peoples, as well as analysis of current literature to determine areas of interaction as shown by the Uinta Basin rock imagery.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Images of the Uinta Fremont (A.D. 0 - 1300)

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Abstract Id(s): 52861