Archaeological Excavation at the Ferris dune Site (48CR310)
Creators: name: Buenger, Brent A.
Publisher: name: The Wyoming Archaeological Society
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Great Divide Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2930/great-divide-basin
subject: Late Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/3245/late-prehistoric
subject: Late Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/32/late-archaic
subject: Uinta Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/7635/uinta-phase
subject: Deadman Wash Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/1828/deadman-wash-phase
subject: 48CR310
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/22125/48cr310
subject: 48CR332
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/24525/48cr332
subject: Pathfinder Ranch
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132703/pathfinder-ranch
subject: 48LN350
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132735/48ln350
subject: Inman
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132736/inman
subject: 48SU301
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132733/48su301
subject: Barnes
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132734/barnes
subject: 48SW3604
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132737/48sw3604
subject: Sheep Mountain
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132626/sheep-mountain
subject: Ferris Dune
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132711/ferris-dune
subject: Wardell
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132732/wardell
subject: 48FR5125
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132682/48fr5125
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Dating Sample
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/3/dating-sample
subject: Fauna
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4/fauna
subject: Steatite
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/8926/steatite
subject: Hunter-Gatherer
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/42334/hunter-gatherer
subject: Fire Altered Rock
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/1008/fire-altered-rock
subject: Holocene
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/141691/holocene
subject: Bone Grease
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/38474/bone-grease
subject: Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/145804/basin

description: Archaeological excavations at the Ferris Dune site (48CR310) yielded two buried cultural components. Component 1 dated to the Late Prehistoric Uinta phase (950 ± 30 years B.P.), and Component 2 dated to the Late Archaic Deadman Wash phase (1920 ± 30 years B.P.). Component 1 represents a relatively well preserved hunting camp where at least two bison were processed, while the cultural materials associated with Component 2 were appreciably more ephemeral and representative of a nondescript short term hunter-gatherer occupation. Each of the occupations suggests the site was occupied by small groups of highly mobile hunter-gatherers conducting basic subsistence activities within the context of a foothill/mountain ecozone, perhaps as the result of seasonally conditioned adaptive strategies employed within the broader context of hunter-gatherer lifeways within the Wyoming Basin.