Steven R. SimmsEmeritus Professor of AnthropologyUtah State University, Logan Based on:Simms, Steven R. 2008/2016 Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau (with original artwork by Eric Carlson and Noel Carmack). Routledge, New York. The Fremont culture was borne of indigenous Archaic foragers interacting with immigrant Puebloan farmers moving north across the Colorado and San Juan rivers from New Mexico …
Danger Cave Near Wendover Provided Clues to Ancient Utah Dwellers
W. Paul Reeve History Blazer, June 1995 Some 11,000 years ago members of the Great Basin Desert Culture left behind fascinating evidence of their existence at a site known as Danger Cave, less than two miles east of Wendover, Utah. Renowned University of Utah archaeologist Jesse D. Jennings first explored the cave in 1949 and over the next several years …