book chapter
Hogup Cave
University of Utah Press • (93) • Published In 1970 • Pages: xiii, 212
By: Aikens, C. Melvin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the site report for Aikens excavations at Hogup Cave. The excavations and artifacts are described and analyzed. The cave had excellent preservation with minimal disturbance. The artifacts found included netting, cordage, leather goods such as moccasins, plant parts such as pickleweed seeds, antelope hairs, wooden atlatls, and the more common bone and stone artifacts. Aikens combined the projectile points from Hogup Cave with those from Danger Cave to reclassify the points and create a point type sequence. Jennings, the excavator of Danger Cave, had only numbered the point types in anticipation that someone in the future would reclassify them. Aikens then used the point type sequence to compare the two caves. The artifact sequence at Hogup Cave confirms many of Jennings findings from Danger Cave, especially that there was minimal change in the artifacts for many thousands of years. Aikens combines Strata 1-8 to form Unit I with the dates of 8400 BP-3250 BP (6400 BC-1250 BC), which is considered to be from the Early to the Late Archaic. As he discusses these strata as a unit and compares this unit to later ones the data that pertain to this unit were marked for Outline of Cultural Material (OCM) codes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Woodworking
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Desert Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 26 June-15 August 1967, 15 June-20 August 1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 8400-150 BP (6400 BC-AD 1850)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Units I-IV, Hogup Cave, Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] C. Melvin Aikens
- Includes bibliographical references (p.207-212)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72612762
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hogup Cave (Utah)