University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 125
Anthropology and ArchaeologyCamels 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 to recognize and remove thirty-three
stratigraphic horizons; radiocarbon analysis provided a pristine,
high-resolution chronological sequence of human use. The brevity of
visits and the undisturbed nature of the deposits also allowed
researchers to identify portions of eight "living surfaces" where
they exposed and mapped artifacts and ecofacts across contiguous
blocks of units.
Aside from presenting model field techniques, this volume provides
new and unique information on regional Holocene climates and biotic
communities, cave taphonomy and small mammal hunting, as well as
updated human chronologies for Great Basin occupation.
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