Madsen and Schmitt: Buzz-Cut Dune and Fremont Foraging at the Margin of Horticulture

Buzz-Cut Dune and Fremont Foraging at the Margin of Horticulture David B. Madsen and Dave N. Schmitt Anthropological Paper No. 124, University of Utah Press. 162 pages, 36 black and white photographs, 45 Illustrations; notes, references, two appendixes. $30.00. ISBN 0-87480-812-

Mosquito Willie (42T0137): A Late Archaic Site on the Western Edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert

In addition to assessing site chronology, we were interested in examining an open site in a region where caves and rockshelters such as those cited above have received the bulk of archaeological attention. The function of the site, therefore, including its role in the regional subsistence-settlement system, was of interest, as was its role as a (presumably) non-agricultural site during the Fremont period. Although it is clearly located on the extreme western periphery of the Fremont area, it seemed possible to explore this topic, since Johnson and Arkush (1997) recovered Fremont ceramics from the site

Smith: Ute Tales

Ute Tales, Collected by Anne M. Smith, assisted by Alden Hayes, forward by Joseph Jorgensen. University of Utah Press, 1992, 175 pp., 20 photos, $24.95 (cloth)

Mosquito Willie (42T0137): A Late Archaic Site on the Western Edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert

In addition to assessing site chronology, we were interested in examining an open site in a region where caves and rockshelters such as those cited above have received the bulk of archaeological attention. The function of the site, therefore, including its role in the regional subsistence-settlement system, was of interest, as was its role as a (presumably) non-agricultural site during the Fremont period. Although it is clearly located on the extreme western periphery of the Fremont area, it seemed possible to explore this topic, since Johnson and Arkush (1997) recovered Fremont ceramics from the site

Madsen and Schmitt: Buzz-Cut Dune and Fremont Foraging at the Margin of Horticulture

Buzz-Cut Dune and Fremont Foraging at the Margin of Horticulture David B. Madsen and Dave N. Schmitt Anthropological Paper No. 124, University of Utah Press. 162 pages, 36 black and white photographs, 45 Illustrations; notes, references, two appendixes. $30.00. ISBN 0-87480-812-

Implications of Snare Bundles in the Great Basin and Southwest

Snare use in the arid Desert West of North America is characteristic of a broad-spectrum subsistence strategy, a conclusion supported by the contextual occurrence of snare bundles. Such a system insured against economic crises by including a wide range of plants and animals on its list of food items. It is suggested that microfauna, which are often relegated to the "also present" category of archaeologically derived subsistence profiles, played a significant role in the prehistoric annual round of the Desert West and possibly a key role in the spring

Evidence of the Domesticated Dogs and Some Related Canids in the Eastern Great Basin

This paper synthesizes the data on prehistoric dogs (Canis familiaris) and other related canids in the eastern Great Basin. Data presented here suggest that domesticated dogs were relatively rare in the eastern Great Basin throughout the Holocene. Skeletal remains of dogs appear to be more commonly associated with sites in wetland habitats, a pattern previously identified in the western Great Basin. In these habitats, dogs may have been able to subsist with little or no assistance from humans

The Mosida Site: A Middle Archaic Burial from the Eastern Great Basin

The fortuitous discovery of a middle Archaic burial at an open site on the shore of Utah Lake in the eastern Great Basin, therefore, is important as it provides scarce information about: 1) burial patterns; 2) the health and stature of indigenous populations; 3) ideology; and 4) the relationship between dogs and people during the mid-Archaic Period