Speaker: Jennifer Hallson
Jennifer Hallson will be presenting on her research related to the Promontory Caves:
Promontory Cave 1 on Great Salt Lake, Utah exhibits an incredible level of preservation rarely seen at archaeological sites. The high proportion of perishable materials provides a unique opportunity to study cultural remains that are usually lost to taphonomic processes. Extensive radiocarbon dating has defined a narrow occupation period of ca. 1250-1290 CE and the bounded space of the cave allows for confident estimations of the total number of artifacts present. Several quantitative analyses were used Cave 1 and its inhabitant. Archaeologists know surprisingly little about the rates at which artifacts enter the archaeological record and these analyses examine this factor along with related variables such as use-life and accumulation. The above methods also allow for inferences to be made on population size, population composition, and occupation span and frequency.
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