Archaeological Excavation at Site 48SW5815, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
Creators: name: Humphreys, Heidi
Publisher: name: The Wyoming Archaeological Society
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Green River Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2965/green-river-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: Early Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5396/early-archaic
subject: Middle Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/3094/middle-archaic
subject: Opal Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/7633/opal-phase
subject: Pine Spring Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/1830/pine-spring-phase
subject: 48SW5815
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132738/48sw5815
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: Fire Cracked Rock
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/5/fire-cracked-rock
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Hunter-Gatherer
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/42334/hunter-gatherer
subject: xeric altithermal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170093/xeric-altithermal
subject: mesic neoglacial
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170094/mesic-neoglacial
subject: Quartzite
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/8929/quartzite
subject: Obsidian
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/6102/obsidian
subject: late middle holocene
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170085/late-middle-holocene
subject: Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/145804/basin
subject: Elko
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/160124/elko
subject: early late holocene
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170092/early-late-holocene
subject: Chert
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/9036/chert

description: Data recovery excavations at archaeological site 48SW5815 were completed by Western Archaeological Services in the winter of 2012- 2013. 48SW5815 yielded an assemblage of remains suggesting the site area was primarily a locus of repeated low intensity, short-term occupations by hunter-gatherer groups practicing a highly organized subsistence strategy using task specific activity areas which employed greater mobility within a broad spectrum collecting/ foraging system. The excavation of the three blocks yielded 19 features, 3,339 pieces of FCR, 55 chipped stone tools (44 non-diagnostic tools and eleven projectile points), one groundstone fragment, 3,394 debitage specimens, and 1,446 faunal specimens, representing at least six cultural occupations spanning 2720 years of the Archaic period, including the transition period between the Opal and Pine Spring phases.