Thesis
A comprehensive analysis of the Swallow Shelter (42BO268) faunal assemblage
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/103427
Abstract
Comprehensive faunal analyses are the basis for bodies of theory and research in the prehistory of the Eastern Great Basin. In 1970 and 1972, excavations at Swallow Shelter (42BO268), a rockshelter located in the Goose Creek Mountains of Northwest Utah, produced a large faunal assemblage with the potential to add to these discussions and other lines of inquiry into the lifeways of the prehistoric inhabitants of the Northern Bonneville Basin. The assemblage, which remained unanalyzed for some 30 years, forms the basis of this thesis. Data collected from the Swallow Shelter faunal assemblage illustrates prey selection and utilization during the Archaic and Fremont periods. In addition, by proxy, the assemblage lends some clarity on the changes in mobility and diet breadth during the shift from the Late Archaic to Fremont occupations of the rockshelter. The results of this analysis indicate variations in the utilization of artiodactyls and small mammals throughout the Late Archaic, which runs counter to the conclusions of Dalley (1976) and the larger concept of the Desert Archaic (Jennings and Norbeck 1964).
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- Title
- A comprehensive analysis of the Swallow Shelter (42BO268) faunal assemblage
- Creators
- Ryan Ward Swanson
- Contributors
- Karen Lupo (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525388001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis