Hostname: page-component-7b7567c8c-2n9c9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-14T01:37:57.673Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Paleoecology and Diet at Clydes Cavern

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Joseph C. Winter and
Henry G. Wylie
Joseph C. Winter
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Utah
Henry G. Wylie
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Utah
Get accessRights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Dietary and paleoecological data from the Clydes Cavern site has provided information concerning man's adaptations in a desert environment. Moreover, this information reveals certain of the processes involved in the Archaic-Fremont transition in Utah, especially as this transition relates to the utilization of wild grass seeds and the introduction and development of maize horticulture. Although horticulture and wild plant collecting were practiced during the Archaic inhabitation of the site, the coprolite sequence and the alluvial chronology suggest that a greater dependence upon these subsystems developed in a Fremont context, possibly in association with a period of improving alluvial conditions. During the Fremont occupation, the site seems to have functioned as a farming and collecting station within a larger system of regional adaptation.

Information

Type
Reports
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 39 , Issue 2Part1 , April 1974, pp. 303 - 315
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1974

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Aikens, C. Melvin 1970 Hogup Cave. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 93.Google Scholar
Aikens, C. Melvin 1972 Fremont culture: restatement of some problems. American Antiquity 37:61–66.Google Scholar
Anderson, Edgar 1948 Racial identity of the corn from Castle Park (Dinosaur National Monument). University of Colorado Studies, Series in Anthropology 2:91–92.Google Scholar
Clark, Susan R. 1966 A tabular summary of plant and animal resources of the Glen Canyon area. In Corn, cucurbits and cotton from Glen Canyon, by Hugh Cutler. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 80.Google Scholar
Cutler, Hugh C. 1966 Corn, cucurbits and cotton from Glen Canyon. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 80.Google Scholar
Fry, Gary 1970 Preliminary analysis of the Hogup Cave coprolites. In Hogup Cave, by C. Melvin Aikens. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 93.Google Scholar
Galinat, Walton C, and Campbell, R. G. 1967 The diffusion of eight-rowed maize from the American Southwest to the central Plains. Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Monograph Series 1.Google Scholar
Hall, Henry J. 1972 Diet and disease at Clydes Cavern, Utah: as revealed via paleoscatology. Unpublished MA thesis. Department of Anthropology, University of Utah.Google Scholar
Harper, Kimball T., and G. M. Alder 1970 The macroscopic plant remains of the deposits of Hogup Cave, Utah, and their paleoclimatic implications. In Cave, Hogup, by Melvin Aikens, C.. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 93.Google Scholar
Haynes, C. Vance 1968 Geochronology of Late-Quarternary alluvium. In Means of correlation of Quarternary successions, edited by Roger B. Morrison and Herbert E. Wright. Proceedings VII Congress International Association of Quarternary Research 8.Google Scholar
Irwin-Williams, Cynthia, and Vance Haynes, C. 1970 Climatic change and early population dynamics in the Southwestern United States. Quarternary Research 1:59–71.Google Scholar
Jones, Volney H. 1968 Corn from the McKees Rocks village site. Pennsylvania A rchaeologist 38:81–86.Google Scholar
Kelso, Gerald 1970 Hogup Cave, Utah: comparative pollen analyses of human coprolites and cave fill. In Hogup Cave, by C. Melvin Aikens. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 93.Google Scholar
Kleiner, Edgar F. 1968 Comparative study of grasslands in Canyonlands National Park. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Biology, University of Utah.Google Scholar
Swenson, John 1970 Soil survey, Carbon-Emery areas, Utah. United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service Google Scholar
Winter, Joseph C. 1973 The distribution and development of Fremont maize agriculture: some preliminary interpretations. American Antiquity 38: 439–451.Google Scholar
Winter, Joseph C. n.d. Evans Mound cultigens and the Fremont maize complex. In the Evans Mound site, by Berry, Michael S.. University of Utah Anthropological Papers. (In press, ms. 1974.)Google Scholar
Wylie, Henry G. 1972 Report of excavations at Clydes Cavern (42Eml77), Emery County, Utah. Ms on file, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah.Google Scholar