The Crooks Gap Housepit Site and Other Nearby Mid-Holocene Housepits
Creators: name: Smith, Craig S.
name: Peterson, Marcia
Publisher: name: The Wyoming Archaeological Society
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Bighorn Basin
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subject: Wind River Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3012/wind-river-basin
subject: Green River Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2965/green-river-basin
subject: Green Mountain
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/9211/green-mountain
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: Great Divide Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8622/great-divide-phase
subject: James Allen
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/9575/james-allen
subject: Lovell
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/9577/lovell
subject: Two-Fisted Manos
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132623/two-fisted-manos
subject: Jeffrey City
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132624/jeffrey-city
subject: 48FR6260
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132621/48fr6260
subject: Headlining
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132622/headlining
subject: Arapahoe Creek Housepit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132627/arapahoe-creek-housepit
subject: 48HO120
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132628/48ho120
subject: 48FR2330
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132625/48fr2330
subject: Sheep Mountain
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132626/sheep-mountain
subject: Moneta Divide Housepit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132631/moneta-divide-housepit
subject: Sinclair
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132629/sinclair
subject: Medicine House
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132630/medicine-house
subject: Split Rock Ranch
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132555/split-rock-ranch
subject: Crooks Gap Housepit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132620/crooks-gap-housepit
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: 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: Macrobotanical
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/10/macrobotanical
subject: Heat Altered Rock
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/42849/heat-altered-rock
subject: Pleistocene
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/131284/pleistocene
subject: wyoming basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169889/wyoming-basin
subject: frontier complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170069/frontier-complex
subject: Holocene
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/141691/holocene
subject: Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/145804/basin
subject: opal phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169961/opal-phase

description: This article summarizes excavation results at the Crooks Gap Housepit site (Site 48FR6260) completed by Cardno ENTRIX in 2010 and then compares those results with 20 other excavated housepits at eight sites located within 20 km of the site (Figure 1). The results are provided in more detail in Peterson and Smith (2012). The Crooks Gap Housepit site is a multicomponent site situated in aeolian deposits near Crooks Creek in southeastern Fremont County, Wyoming. One of the components contains the remains of four housepits dating between 5420 and 5170 years BP. It is one of a growing number of sites in the Wyoming and Big Horn Basins containing excavated housepits dating to the mid-Holocene (Buenger and Goodrick 2011; Larson 1997; Rose 2008; Smith 2003). The site is in an area where 20 additional housepits have been excavated, thereby providing an opportunity to examine comparatively this subset of excavated housepits.