Hidden beneath the beautiful shifting dunes within the Sand Hollow Basin of southwestern Utah are thousands of campsites dating from the Early Archaic period into Historic times. The sites attest to life in a marginal environment, where small groups of people moved outward from the nearby Virgin River into the surrounding landscape, seasonally exploiting a surprisingly rich variety of plants and animals. This report summarizes archaeological, geomorphological, botanical, and climatological studies that have expanded our understanding of Native American land...
Anthropology and Archaeology
Hidden beneath the beautiful shifting dunes within the Sand Hollow Basin of southwestern Utah are thousands of camps...
In July of 1847 the first company of Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley, having endured months of weary travel on their route to find Zion. The first recorded death in the valley, a 3-year-old boy, occurred just eighteen days after the group s arrival. That small boy, and the other members of the company who died in the opening years of the new settlement, were buried in a small family plot on Block 49, the city block immediately east of Salt Lake City s first pioneer fort. Within three decades the cemetery would be forgotten, covered by the building and growth of a rapidly...
In July of 1847 the first company of Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley, having endured months of weary travel on their route to find Zio...
BYU archaeologists and members of the Koosharem and Kanosh Bands of the Paiute Tribe of Utah joined forces to explore the pre-European history of the Fish Lake archaeological project.
BYU archaeologists and members of the Koosharem and Kanosh Bands of the Paiute Tribe of Utah joined forces to explore the pre-European history of t...
This is a synthesis of archaeological research in the Steinaker Lake area of the Uinta Basin. Sites examined date primarily to the early Fremont period and represent the material remains of mobile farmers. The well-dated findings are integrated into regional models of Fremont lifeways."
This is a synthesis of archaeological research in the Steinaker Lake area of the Uinta Basin. Sites examined date primarily to the early Fremont perio...
