From Sandals to Sashes: The Origins and Elaboration of Basketmaker Dress in the Greater Bears Ears Area

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Reemerging from the Ancient and Current Pasts: Recent Archaeological and Ethnographic Research in Southeastern Utah" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Cedar Mesa Perishables Project has documented nearly 5,000 perishable artifacts from alcoves in southeastern Utah. As part of this work, the project has generated about 100 radiocarbon dates from well-preserved woven textiles, sandals, baskets, and other perishable items from the greater Bears Ears area, resulting in the largest dataset of directly dated perishable artifacts from this region. With 80 percent of the sample represented by Basketmaker technologies, these data offer new insights into the origins and elaboration of early Ancestral Pueblo clothing styles and technologies and a more nuanced understanding of Basketmaker and early Puebloan dress for the period 200 BCE-900 CE.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Reemerging from the Ancient and Current Pasts: Recent Archaeological and Ethnographic Research in Southeastern Utah

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Abstract Id(s): 51749