The Donner-Reed party of emigrants to California bogged down in the mud of the Great Salt Lake Desert. This book gives a full account of the detailed archaeological examination of the Donner-Reed remains in western Utah. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Excavation of the Donner-Reed Wagons: Historic Archaeology Along the Hastings Cutoff

History

Madsen, David B.

Hawkins, Bruce R.

Americas

Univ of Utah Pr

David Madsen is the former Department Chair of Drafting Technology and an instructor at Clackamas Community College, an authorized AutoCAD. training center in Oregon City, Oregon. He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Design Drafting Association.

Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups: Human Population Movement and the Expansion of the Numa

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Utah Anthropological Paper No. 125Camels Back Cave is in an isolated limestone ridge on the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert. Recent archaeological investigations there have exposed a series of stratified deposits spanning the entire Holocene era (10,000 BP–present), deposits that show intermittent human occupations dating back through the past 7,600 years. Most human visits to the cave were brief—many likely representing overnight stays—and visitors did not dig pits or move sediment. As a result, fieldworkers were able to recognize and remove thirty-three stratigraphic horizons; radiocarbon analysis provided a pristine, high-resolution chronological sequence of human use. The brevity of visits and the undisturbed nature of the deposits also allowed researchers to identify portions of eight “living surfaces” where they exposed and mapped artifacts and ecofacts across contiguous blocks of units. Aside from presenting model field techniques, this volume provides new and unique information on regional Holocene climates and biotic communities, cave taphonomy and small mammal hunting, as well as updated human chronologies for Great Basin occupation.

Camels Back Cave: Anthropological Paper 125 (Volume 125) (University of Utah Anthropological Paper)

Schmitt, Dave N.

University of Utah Press

Exploring the Freemont

Travel

Utah Museum Natural History

Late Quaternary Paleoecology in the Bonneville Basin (Bulletin / Utah Geological Survey)

Utah Geological Survey

University of Utah Anthropological Paper No. 128 About 12,000 years ago, a major river ran from the Sevier Basin to the Great Salt Lake, feeding a wetland delta system and creating riparian habitat along its length. But after three thousand years the river dried up and the surrounding lands became more like what we see today. Because the Old River Bed Delta experienced less environmental and human disturbance than other areas, many of the Paleoarchaic sites found there have remained relatively intact—a rare find in the Great Basin. This book presents a comprehensive synthesis of a decade of investigations conducted by research teams working in different parts of the delta and explores questions about how the old riverbed was formed, how its distributary system changed through time, and how these changes affected early foragers. It concludes with an integrated summary and interpretation. Additional material from this study will be available online at UofUpress.com. Supplementary Material for The Paleoarchaic Occupation of the Old River Bed Delta Chapter 3 - SDM Trench and Locality Descriptions November Chapter 3 SDM Individual Channel Images November Chapter 5 - SDM Additional Lithic Artifact Images Chapter 6 - SDM Results of XRF and PXRF Analysis Chapter 6 - SDM Source Assignment Tables

The Paleoarchaic Occupation of the Old River Bed Delta (Volume 128) (University of Utah Anthropological Paper)

Page, David

Archaeology

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