Untangling Land Use at Wild Horse: Analyzing Paleoindian to Historical Indigenous Diagnostics to Better Understand Open Architectural Arrangements in South Park.

Summary

This is an abstract from the "*A New Look at the Southern Rocky Mountains: Crossroads of Western North America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This presentation focuses on the South Park intermontane basin to better understand landscape use and patterns spanning 10,000 years. Since 2014, ERO has documented hundreds of diagnostic artifacts— projectile points and ceramics — often in conjunction with numerous stone features across open parklands, uplifted ridges, and paleochannels. By analyzing the diverse architectural feature dataset in conjunction with the distribution of diagnostic artifacts we begin to untangle land use patterns over 7,000 acres of a uniquely undeveloped landscape.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• *A New Look at the Southern Rocky Mountains: Crossroads of Western North America

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 51993