Probable Edible and Medicinal Flora Used by Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Groups in the Bighorn and Wind River Basins of North Central Wyoming
Creators: name: Stewart, James J.
Publisher: name: The Wyoming Archaeological Society
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Bighorn Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2942/bighorn-basin
subject: Wind River Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3012/wind-river-basin
subject: Late Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/3245/late-prehistoric
subject: Modern
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/47/modern
subject: Late Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/32/late-archaic
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5728/historic
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: Shoshone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/66/shoshone
subject: 48FR93
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132463/48fr93
subject: Twin Creek
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132462/twin-creek
subject: 48HO4
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132474/48ho4
subject: 48FR434
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132511/48fr434
subject: Miller Spring
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132512/miller-spring
subject: Legend Rock Petroglyph Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132509/legend-rock-petroglyph-site
subject: South Pass City
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132510/south-pass-city
subject: 48FR3980
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132515/48fr3980
subject: Onion Flats
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132516/onion-flats
subject: Medicine Lodge Creek
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/4771/medicine-lodge-creek
subject: 48FR3309
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132513/48fr3309
subject: 48FR3979
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132514/48fr3979
subject: 48FR760
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132517/48fr760
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
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: Macrobotanical
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/10/macrobotanical
subject: galvan seasonal group
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169915/galvan-seasonal-group
subject: dinwoody
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169914/dinwoody

description: The intent of this paper is to assist others with the objective of insights concerning the flora, food choices, and life styles of Native American hunter-gatherers of 2,000-12,000 years ago -particularly concerning the Wind River and Bighorn Basins of western Wyoming. The reason for full listings, rather than the shortened version found in archaeological reports, is to aid the student who would not have access to an extensive bibliography. Although it may appear to be redundant to state much the same use of a plant as another, such repeated consistency for the learner shows a consensus among the researchers. This hopefully will help students construct their own thoughts and independently compare, contrast, and evaluate the information. The following flora list represents vegetal species associated with prehistoric hunter-gatherer sites in the Wind River and Bighorn basins, of north central Wyoming. The archaeological sources for the list are primarily from Frison (1978), Guernsey (1989) (describing floral remains from the Legend Rock Petroglyph site, 48H04), Scott-Cummings (1991) (describing macrofloral remains from a prehistoric site near South Pass City, 48FR434, and Scott-Cummings et al. (2001). The latter report investigates the flora remains found in six pit house features ranging in time from the Early Archaic through the Late Prehistoric Periods. The pit house features were found in the Beaver Creek vicinity near Riverton, Wyoming, Also in this report are several contemporary flora counts from sites with evidence of hunter-gatherer occupations, including Miller Spring (48FR3309) and Onion Flats (48FR760). Different aspects of Miller Spring (in 1996) and Onion Flats (in 1997) have been researched as part of an educational archaeological learning program by students and staff at Wyoming Indian High School, with plant listings from those sites being submitted through that program.