A Popular Spot: Four Thousand Years of Occupation at the Battle Spring West Site (48SW16604) In the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming
Creators: name: Kinneer, Christopher C.
Publisher: name: The Wyoming Archaeological Society
Year: 2013
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: 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: Late Paleoindian
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5226/late-paleoindian
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: Pine Spring Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/1830/pine-spring-phase
subject: Besant
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/679/besant
subject: Firehole Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/1831/firehole-phase
subject: McKean
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/169/mckean
subject: Pelican Lake
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/634/pelican-lake
subject: 48CR304
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132655/48cr304
subject: 48CR4522
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132656/48cr4522
subject: 48SW5982
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132653/48sw5982
subject: Scoggin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132654/scoggin
subject: Arthur
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132659/arthur
subject: 48SW1023
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132660/48sw1023
subject: Fivemile Ditch
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132657/fivemile-ditch
subject: 48SW13155
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132658/48sw13155
subject: 48SW13156
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132663/48sw13156
subject: Buffalo Hump
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132664/buffalo-hump
subject: Sinclair
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132629/sinclair
subject: Arapaho Creek Housepit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132661/arapaho-creek-housepit
subject: Battle Spring Draw
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132662/battle-spring-draw
subject: West Crooks Creek
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132667/west-crooks-creek
subject: 48FR4435
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132668/48fr4435
subject: Chain Lakes Rim Housepit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132665/chain-lakes-rim-housepit
subject: 48SW13159
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132666/48sw13159
subject: 48SW5057
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/17474/48sw5057
subject: 48SW16604
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132651/48sw16604
subject: Bald Knob
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132652/bald-knob
subject: Battle Spring West
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132650/battle-spring-west
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: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Fire Altered Rock
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/1008/fire-altered-rock
subject: wyoming interior basin adaptation type
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170083/wyoming-interior-basin-adaptation-type
subject: green river phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170084/green-river-phase
subject: wyoming basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169889/wyoming-basin
subject: Charcoal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135970/charcoal
subject: duncan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170082/duncan
subject: Tool Manufacture
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/3304/tool-manufacture
subject: Lithic Reduction
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/3544/lithic-reduction
subject: Hunting
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/459/hunting
subject: opal phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169961/opal-phase

description: Excavations for the Ur-Energy Lost Creek Project at the Battle Spring West site yielded remains from multiple occupations extending from the Opal phase through Uinta phase. The excavation data did not reveal evidence of longterm occupation, such as structural elements or semi-permanent, immovable processing tools such as large ground stone implements. Taken as a whole, the site assemblage suggests the archaeological remains are the result of hunting-related activities including camping, tool maintenance or production, and faunal processing. Although the excavation data do not permit elucidation of generalized hunter-gatherer settlement or subsistence strategies for any of the time periods, they do provide useful baseline information about landscape use in the Great Divide Basin through time.