University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 125

Anthropology and Archaeology

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...