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The Fremont Culture: Internal Dimensions and External Relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James H. Gunnerson*
Affiliation:
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Abstract

The Fremont culture of northeastern Utah is predominately Anasazi in character, but has a few distinctive traits. It exhibits great variability, especially in ceramics and architecture. The total time span of this complex may be the 250-year period from A.D. 950 to 1200. The Fremont culture, and probably the very similar Sevier culture of western Utah, represent a rather sudden northward movement of traits, and perhaps people, from the independently-developed, but Kayenta-influenced Virgin branch of the Anasazi.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1960

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