Isolated Storage Vessel at Site 42SA20779 in Glen Canyon National RecreationArea: Adaptive Storage and Caching Behavior in the Prehistoric Southwest

摘要

The report documents the excavation and analysis of a large, isolated ceramicvessel discovered in the spring of 1988 in the Hite Marina area of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah Project No. 89-NA-051N. Such isolated artifacts have often been ignored by archeologists because they were thought to provide little insight into the patterns of aboriginal life. Conversely, analysis of the vessel was conducted within a framework which allows the vessel to be placed within a context of adaptive storage and caching behavior for the prehistoric Southwest. These results are achieved by careful examination of the vessel itself, the environmental context in which it was found, and the materials found in association with the vessel during excavation.