Field Methods and Discoveries at Utah State University’s Archaeological Field School

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Utah State University conducted an investigation of a formative period site outside of Boulder Utah on private land. This field school took place on fourteen acres of unsurveyed land within close proximity to Anasazi State Park. Students learned how to properly conduct pedestrian surveys, record sites using official Utah archaeological site forms, excavate features visible on the surface and subsequent subsurface deposits, and record in situ artifacts with various tools such as a total station. These processes resulted in the recording of four new surface sites, one presenting upright stones suggesting a feature of some kind, two block excavations, and the collection of artifacts such as various stone tools/debitage, pottery fragments, animal bones, and corn cob remnants. Ceramics suggest a mixed Fremont/Puebloan occupation of small housepit domiciles likely part of the broader community associated with the standing structures found at nearby Anasazi State Park.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 52004