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"In 1931 a group from Harvard University's Peabody Museum accomplished something that had never been attempted in the history of American archaeology: a six-week, four-hundred-mile horseback survey of Fremont prehistoric sites through some of the West's most rugged terrain. The expedition was successful, but a report on the findings was never completed. What should have been one of the great archaeological stories in American history was relegated to boxes and files in the basement of the Peabody Museum at Harvard. Now, based on over a thousand pages of documents (field journals, correspondence, and receipts) and over four hundred photographs, this book recounts the remarkable day-to-day adventures of this crew of one professor, five students, and three Utah guides who braved heat, fatigue, and the dangerous canyon wilderness to reveal vestiges of the Fremont culture in the Tavaputs Plateau and Uinta Basin areas. To better tell this story, authors Spangler and Aton undertook extensive fieldwork to confirm the sites; their recent photographs and those of the original expedition are shared on these pages. This engaging narrative situates the 1931 survey and its discoveries within the history of American archaeology"--Provided by publisher.

Archaeological surveying --- Fremont culture --- Indians of North America --- Pueblo Indians --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Surveying --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Methodology --- Claflin-Emerson Expedition --- Utah

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"Archaeology is a science of small but important incremental steps toward understanding the past. Basketmaker Beginnings instead marks a giant leap forward in archaeologists' understanding of the earliest maize farmers north and west of the Colorado River. This volume, based on the results of excavations at Jackson Flat Reservoir just south of Kanab, examines a litany of firsts: The earliest Archaic pithouses anywhere in the region are found here, maize farmers from southern Arizona arrived here a thousand years earlier than any previously reported evidence north of the Colorado River, and the emergence of a complex Basketmaker farming and foraging adaptation culminated in the construction of a large ceremonial or community structure, also a first for the region. In this collection of papers, specialists in Far Western Puebloan culture, architecture, settlement patterns, subsistence, chronometry, and prehistoric technologies offer new perspectives of the first farmers and villagers to settle along the base of the Vermilion Cliffs on the Utah-Arizona border, beginning about 1000 BC and long before the much-studied Basketmakers had emerged in the Four Corners region. In Basketmaker Beginnings, archaeologists make a compelling case that farming was introduced to the region by San Pedro immigrants, and that the blending of farmers with local foraging groups gave rise to a Basketmaker lifeway by 200 BC. This expression evolved over the next ten centuries to reflect clusters of pithouses, increasingly elaborate storage structures, locally distinct artifact traditions, and increased social complexity characterized by changing economic relationships to groups in southern Arizona and the California coast. The Basketmaker presence in southern Utah has traditionally been viewed as peripheral to the developments originating in the Four Corners region. Basketmaker Beginnings offers an entirely new and provocative perspective: The origins of farming on the northern Colorado Plateau are instead found far, far to the west along Kanab Creek"--

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Basket making --- Basket-Maker Indians --- Antiquities. --- Four Corners Region

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