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Archeological Excavations In Glen Canyon: A Preliminary Report Of 1958 Work
(Utah Archeology, 1/1/1958 0)A dozen archaeological sites, located in Southern Utah's deep Glen Canyon on the Colorado, were excavated in summer 1958 by a crew of archaeologists from the University of Utah. Some of these sites were flooded in the ... -
Anasazi culture and its relationship to the environment in the Red Rock Plateau region, Southeastern Utah
(1/1/1966 0)The problem addressed by this study is specification of the principal cultural and environmental variables that enabled the Anasazi, during five phases of culture, to occupy and adapt to the environment of the Red Rock ... -
Archaeological Resource Conservation and the Wilderness System
(United States. Forest Service, 1/1/1975 0)In this paper, I shall examine the interrelationships of the objectives of our National Wilderness Preservation System on the one hand, and the goals of archeological conservation on the other. Archeological resources are, ... -
Recent palynology of the Cedar Mesa area, Utah
(1/1/1979 0)A major problem in attempts to reconstruct vegetation and sequences of climatic change from pollen samples derived from archaeological deposits is the effect of human activity in the vicinity of the site on vegetation, and ... -
Demography and Dendrochronology: A Critical Examination of a Proposed Population Index
(1/1/1980 0)A proposed index to population growth patterns is examined and found to be an unsatisfactory method for distinguishing between exponential and logistic growth trends thought to describe population growth in the American ... -
Similarities in Spatial Characteristics of Several Basketmaker II Sites on Cedar Mesa, Utah
(1/1/1981 0)Basketmaker II open sites on Cedar Mesa, Utah are differentiated through patterning in the spatial distributions of artifacts and features. The sites are known from surficial evidence only. Source data includes maps and ... -
Replication of an A.D. 800 Anasazi Pithouse in Southwestern Colorado
(1/1/1983 0)This study reports on the replication of a prehistoric (ca. AD 800) Anasazi (ancestral Pueblo Indian) pithouse dwelling in southwestern Colorado. The primary objectives of the project were to obtain quantitative estimates ... -
Pueblo II and Pueblo III settlement patterns on Cedar Mesa, southeastern Utah
(1/1/1983 0)This thesis identifies several environmental and cultural factors that affected prehistoric Pueblo settlement on portions of Cedar Mesa, southeastern Utah. The settlements were established by farmers of the Mesa Verde and ... -
Site Occupational History and Lithic Assemblage Structure: An Example from Southeast Utah
(1/1/1983 0)Recurrent patterns in the regional positioning of settlement systems over extended periods of time are the processes by which archaeological remains accumulate. These processes result in the differential use of portions ... -
Explaining Organizational Change: Anasazi Community Patterns
(1/1/1984 0)To explain organizational change on the northern edge of prehistoric Anasazi occupation, a large block was archaeologically surveyed in southeast Utah. Resulting site distributions are used to interpret community patterns, ... -
Late Pueblo II and Pueblo III Canyon Settlement Patterns at Cedar Mesa, Southeastern Utah
(1/1/1984 0)The primary objective of this study is to examine settlement patterns on Cedar Mesa within five canyons during the late Pueblo II and Pueblo III periods (ca A.D. 1060-1270). The secondary objective is to compare results ... -
Ceramics and Settlement in the Cedar Mesa Area, Southeastern Utah: A Methodological Approach
(1/1/1984 0)This dissertation focuses on the development of methods for using one class of artifacts, ceramics, to independently evaluate settlement variability from archaeological sites. Previous approaches to the study of archaeological ... -
Pottery Pueblo: a Tsegi phase village on Paiute Mesa, Utah
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The interpretation of archaeological tree-ring dates
(1/1/1985 0)A comparative approach to analysis of the body of tree-ring data from prehistoric sites in the American Southwest provides information on patterns of wood use, the effectiveness of interpretive methods, and culture history. ... -
Northern Kayenta ceramic chronology
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The Household in Transition: Spatial Organization of Early Anasazi Residential-Domestic Units, Southeastern Utah.
(1/1/1988 0)This study examines the spatial organization of residential-domestic units in two early periods (covering ca. A.D. 200-275) of the Anasazi tradition in the American Southwest. It asks whether or not there is evidence that ... -
Moon House: a Pueblo III Period Cliff Dwelling Complex in Southeastern Utah
(1/1/1989 0)The Moon House Complex is composed of 3 exceptionally well preserved 13th century cliff dwellings. An analysis of construction methods, room function, and construction sequence indicates recurrent reconstruction, remodeling, ... -
Late Pueblo II and Pueblo III Cliff Dwellings and Community Patterns in the Grand Gulch, Southeastern Utah
(1/1/2001 0)The study area, a 6.5 km segment of Grand Gulch, includes 24 well-preserved late Pueblo II-Pueblo III period (ca. A.D. 1060-1270) cliff dwellings. I use a spatial and functional analysis of the cliff dwellings and their ... -
Pits Without Pots: Basketmaker II Houses and Lithics of Southeastern Utah
(1/1/2001 0)The first goal of this thesis was to provide descriptive site reports of three late Basketmaker II habitation sites on Cedar Mesa, Southeastern Utah. There was great homogeneity among late Basketmaker II habitation sites ...