An Assessment of the Newly Discovered Upper Powder Spring Sites: A Hunting Complex in Southwest Wyoming
Creators: name: Murcray, Dirk
Publisher: name: The Wyoming Archaeological Society
Year: 1993
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: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5728/historic
subject: Protohistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/147/protohistoric
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: Ute
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/79/ute
subject: Shoshone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/66/shoshone
subject: Fremont
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/24/fremont
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: 48SW9537
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132815/48sw9537
subject: 48SW9538
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132813/48sw9538
subject: 48SW9441
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132814/48sw9441
subject: 48SW8594
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132804/48sw8594
subject: 48SW9439
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132807/48sw9439
subject: 48SW9440
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132808/48sw9440
subject: 48SW9533
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132805/48sw9533
subject: 48SW9534
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132806/48sw9534
subject: 48SW9463
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132811/48sw9463
subject: 48SW9536
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132812/48sw9536
subject: 48SW9438
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132809/48sw9438
subject: Upper Powder Spring Drift Fence
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132810/upper-powder-spring-drift-fence
subject: Wood
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/15/wood
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Fire Cracked Rock
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/5/fire-cracked-rock
subject: Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/133294/prehistoric
subject: wikiup
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/170105/wikiup

description: The preliminary investigation of the hunting complex was essentially a blind reconnaissance performed on a volunteer basis. The primary goal was to locate, and document as thoroughly as possible, all portions of the drift fence and any potentially related sites. As the investigation proceeded, attempts at interpretation required continual revision with new findings. By the end of the field season, the primary goal of locating the drift fence in its entirety was accomplished, however the initial investigations proved inadequate to provide a detailed interpretation. It is the goal of this paper to describe the findings, offer limited initial interpretations, identify current research objectives, and to suggest possible future research. To emphasize the interpretive difficulties imposed by the immensity of the hunting complex, the discovery of its constituent parts and the evolution of the interpretations are presented chronologically.