Hogup Cave

Aikens, C. Melvin

book chapter

Hogup Cave

University of Utah Press • (93) • Published In 1970 • Pages: xiii, 212

By: Aikens, C. Melvin.

Abstract
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.

Cultural stratigraphy

Archaeological excavation methods

Bone, horn, and shell technology

HRAF PubDate

2010

Region

North America