Research Catalog

Title

Glen Canyon revisited / Phil R. Geib, with contributions by J. Richard Ambler [and others].

Author

Geib, Phil R.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1996.

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Details

Description

xiv, 223 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.

Summary

Examines specific issues about the history and lifeways of the prehistoric inhabitants in and around Glen Canyon (Utah and Arizona), and presents an updated version of regional culture history 30 years after the end of the massive archaeological study conducted prior to the creation of Lake Powell (the Glen Canyon Project). Contains cultural and historical information dealing with the archaic period, the beginnings of agricultural economies, and the Formative period and cultures. Discusses archaic diet, slab lined hearths, hunter-gatherer mobility, Fremont pottery, and a description of a Pueblo III community.

Series Statement

Anthropological papers ; no. 119

Uniform Title

Anthropological papers (Salt Lake City, Utah) ; no. 119.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Utah and Ariz.) > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Utah and Ariz.)
• Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Indians of North America > Antiquities
• Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Iwi taketake
• Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Utah and Ariz.) > Antiquities
• United States > Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
• Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-223).

Contents

Introduction / Phil R. Geib -- pt. 1. Culture history: Archaic occupancy of the Glen Canyon region / Phil R. Geib ; Dust Devil Cave and archaic complexes of the Glen Canyon area / J. Richard Ambler ; The early agricultural period : transition to farming / Phil R. Geib ; Early formative occupancy of Glen Canyon / Phil R. Geib ; Formative cultures and boundaries : reconsideration of the Fremont and the Anasazi / Phil R. Geib -- pt. 2. Related studies: Archaic subsistence in the Glen Canyon region / Margaret A. Van Ness and Eric Hansen ; dating aceramic sites in the Orange Cliffs area / Peter W. Bungart ; Problems with inferring site function / Phil R. Geib and J. Michael Bremer ; Hunter-gatherer mobility and settlement choices : archaic remains from two canyons / Phil R. Geib ; Sources of igneous temper for Fremont ceramics / Phil R. Geib and Margaret M. Lyneis ; Competing models of Pueblo II Anasazi settlement-subsitence strategies in Glen Canyon / Phil R. Geib ; A Pueblo III community in Glen Canyon / Phil R. Geib and Helen C. Fairley ; Summary / Phil R. Geib.

ISBN

• 0874805201
• 9780874805208

LCCN

96030913

OCLC

• ocm35235895
• 35235895
• SCSB-2111781

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library