USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum

Archaeology

Curation Information

Paleoindian Archaic Lt Archaic Transition Fremont Ute Historic
11,500 years ago 9,000 bp 3,000bp 0 BC/0 AD AD 700 AD 1500 1870s

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Era

 

Ice Ages/Pleistocene

 

1,808,000 - 10,500 years BP

  Holocene

10,000 BP - Present

      
Culture

Paleoindian

13,000 - 10,000

Desert Archaic

10,000 BP - 3,000 BP

Hitsatsinom/Anasazi

300 BC -AD 1270

Fremont Culture

AD 300- 1350

 Ute Indians

 AD 1400 - Present

 
Museum Main Attractions The Huntington Mammoth  Barrier Canyon Pictographs  Developmental Pottery Display Pit House Ute/Nuche Tipi
Museum Attractions Cont. 10,000 BC/Joe Venus Mural Hovenweep Diorama Range Creek

Pilling Figurines

Pectol Lee

Nine Mile Canyon

 Beads  
Hunting Atlatl Atlatl   Atlatl/
Bow and Arrow		 Bow and Arrow
Projectile Points Clovis/Folsom Northern Side/Elko   Uinta/Parowan/
Nawthis/Rose Springs		 Ute Points
    Manos & Metates   Manos & Metates Manos & Metates
  Lithic Tools Lithic Tools   Lithic Tools Lithic Tools
        Wooden Tools  
    Basketry   Basketry Basketry
        Pottery  
  Spears       Bows & Arrows
    Atlatls & Spears   Bows & Arrows

Shoshone

700 BP - Present 
        Basketry Vision of Washakie
        Agriculture