Hunchback Shelter: A Fremont Lithic Production Site in the Mineral Mountains of Eastern Utah

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" Hunchback Shelter: A Fremont Lithic Production Site in the Mineral Mountains of Eastern Utah "
Greubel, Rand A.; Andrews, Bradford W.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	940637
Doc. No	:	LA5xr469n6
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Greubel, Rand A.; Andrews, Bradford W.
Title & Author	:	Hunchback Shelter: A Fremont Lithic Production Site in the Mineral Mountains of Eastern Utah [Article]\ Greubel, Rand A.; Andrews, Bradford W.
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Volume/ Issue Number	:	28/1
Date	:	2008
Abstract	:	Hunchback Shelter (42BE751) is a small rockshelter in the northern Mineral Mountains, located less than 10 km. from one of the major obsidian sources in the eastern Great Basin. Excavation of the site yielded a large flaked lithic assemblage associated with occupations dating from the Late Archaic to the post Formative Late Prehistoric period. The data suggest that the shelter functioned as a seasonal campsite that was heavily oriented toward biface production throughout its long occupational history. Based primarily on flaked lithics and secondarily on other lines of evidence, we hypothesize that the flaked stone tools and debitage associated with the Fremont occupations may represent the work of independent, part-time craft specialists.