Camels 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...
University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 125
Anthropology and Archaeology
Camels Back Cave is in an isolated limestone ridge on th...