This week the CEU archaeology class took a field trip into Range Creek. We toured the "Applique House" excavation at the small Fremont Village called 42Cb2316, visited several rock art and granary sites lower in the canyon, and then visited the current excavation that we just began at the "Burnout Village," site 42Em15.
The students looked at the excavation and the lithics and ceramic surface artifacts marked for mapping, and learned to identify the remains of classic Fremont pithouses. Dorian identified a lithic artifact near the excavation that had not yet been flagged, and the whole crew looked at two new probable cultural "features," or concentrations of artifacts with dark, ashy deposits that may be associated with a pithouse and/or midden.
The excavation and analyses continue, with more lithics, ceramics and adobe, and what promises to be a very interesting, dark cultural level beneath the probable adobe roof-fall level. Looks like we will have an intact floor for next week's excavators to uncover.
Next week.... flintknapping to learn prehistoric tool production techniques.
Renee Barlow, Ph.D.
Curator of Archaeology
College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum
451 East 400 North, Price, Utah 84501
phone/voicemail 435-613-5290
1 comments:
Oh dear i'm sorry.. You had to deal with Mariel AND Kerk... I apologize =). Well looks like fun, i think Kevin might let me in this fall.
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