1959 Excavations, Glen Canyon Area

Author(s): William D. Lipe; Floyd W. Sharrock; Keith M. Anderson; David S. Dibble; Dee A. Suhm

Year: 1960

Summary

During 1959, the University of Utah conducted two excavation programs in the Glen Canyon area: 1) at the Coombs site, at Boulder, Utah (Lister, 1959, 1960). and 2) at a number of sites in the Glen Canyon reservoir area proper. This report presents the results of the latter program.

The work was part of the Upper Colorado River Basin Archeological Salvage Project, sponsored by the National Park Service. The history of this project has been summarized in another paper in this series (Jennings 1959) . Adams (1960) has exhaustively summarized the history of Glen Canyon archeology. Other documents that report results of survey and excavation in the Glen Canyon area include those of Steward (1941), Rinaldo (1935), Foster (1952, 1954), Breternitz (1957), Miller and Breternitz (1958a and b), Fowler et al. (1959), Gunnerson (1959), Adams and Adams (1959), Adams (1959), Fowler (1959b), Lister(1959b, 1960), Lipe (1960), and a report "Survey and Excavations in Lower Glen Canyon 1952-1958" by William Y. Adams, Alexander J. Lindsay, Jr., and Christy G. Turner, II of the Museum of Northern Arizona. In addition, numerous historical sites have been documented by Crampton (1959, 1960).

All the sites reported here lie in the Upper Glen Canyon region, roughly between Hite, Utah, and the confluence of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers. All are in or adjacent to the area flooded by the formation of Lake Powell behind the Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona. The ecological, climatic, and physiographic backgrounds of Glen Canyon sites have already been treated briefly in the report of 1958 excavations (Lipe, 1960). Specialized papers on these topics include those of Woodbury et al. (1958, 1959 a and b), Gregory (1938), Gregory and Moore (1931), Hunt (1953), and Cooley (1958 a and b, 1959 a and b). In this report there are, additionally, brief sections outlining the principal physical features of each of the four sub-areas where the sites occurred. Each site report includes a short description of the immediate environment.

A total of 22 sites was tested or excavated during the season. One, the Loper Ruin, has been reported with the 1958 excavations (Lipe, 1960). Another, 42Sa387, was tested for a possible buried habitation level, with negative results. More extensive tests on this site may be undertaken in the future, but the site has not been reported here. The remaining 20 sites, plus one site known only from surface collections, 42Sa588, are reported in this paper. Most of those are described in individual site sections; however, several groupings of small, closely associated sites also have been made. The survey site, 42Sa588, is discussed only in the introduction to the Moqui Canyon excavation. Standard excavation techniques were used. Natural divisions of the sites, both vertical and horizontal, were followed whenever possible. If natural units were not distinguishable, arbitrary divisions were imposed. All material was labeled at the site by unit of provenience, but exact location was recorded for only a few outstanding specimens. All the sites were mapped by plane table, tape and peepsight alidade or, most frequently, with telescopic alidade. In addition, measured sketch maps were made of a few sites.

Originally the information in this record was migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. In 2014, as part of its effort to improve tDAR content, the Center for Digital Antiquity uploaded a copy of the document and further improved the record metadata.

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1959 Excavations, Glen Canyon Area. William D. Lipe, Floyd W. Sharrock, Keith M. Anderson, David S. Dibble, Dee A. Suhm. Anthropological Papers (Glen Canyon Series Number 13) ,49. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press. 1960 ( tDAR id: 93014) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8P55PGN

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Keywords

Material
Basketry • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Ground Stone • Hide • Macrobotanical • Shell • Textile • Wood

Site Name
42Ga367 • 42Sa366 • 42Sa368 • 42Sa377 • 42Sa531 • 42Sa558 • 42Sa559 • 42Sa564 • 42Sa566 • 42Sa567 • 42Sa568 • 42Sa576 • 42Sa583 • 42Sa585 • 42Sa597 • 42Sa598 • 42Sa637 • 42Sa643 • 42Sa646 • Backyard site • Barren Flats Group • Buried Olla site • Crumbling Kiva • Daves site • Defiance House • Doll Ruin • Echo Cave • Fence Ruin • Forked Stick Alcove • Grimm site • Husteds Well • Ledge Ruin Group • Mat House • Mosquito Cave • NA5358 • Na5363 • NA5501 • Na6440 • NA6529 • Shady Alcove Show More

Site Type
Arrow foreshafts • Artifact Scatter • Cave • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Firepit • Hearth • Kiva / Great Kiva • Petroglyph • Pictograph

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Reconnaissance / Survey • Site Evaluation / Testing • Systematic Survey

General
Betatakin Black-on-White • Cameron Polychrome • Chapin Gray • Citadel Polychrome • Dogoszhi Polychrome • Flagstaff Black-on-white • Hovenweep Corrugated • Ivie-Creek Black-On-White • Jeddito Corrugated • Johnson Corrugated • Kayenta Black-on-White • Kiet Siel Gray • Kiet Siel Polychrome • Mancos Corrugated • Mano • McElmo Black-On-White • Medicine Black-on-Red • Mesa Verde Black-On-White • Metate • Moenkopi Corrugated • Sosi Black-on-White • Tsegi Black-on-Orange • Tsegi Orange • Tusayan Black-on-White • Tusayan Corrugated • Tusayan White ware • Utah Desert gray Show More

Geographic Keywords
Forgotten Canyon • Little Rincon • Moqui Canyon • Rincon-Wilson Canyon

Temporal Keywords
Pueblo II • Pueblo III

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1000 to 1200

Calendar Date: 1200 to 1300

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.009; min lat: 37.117 ; max long: -110.245; max lat: 37.944 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Sponsor(s): National Park Service

Record Identifiers

NADB document id number(s): 2000474

NADB citation id number(s): 000000147107

Notes

General Note: Originally this record was automatically added to tDAR from NADB. In 2014, a copy of the document was added and the record metadata was updated.

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