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<< Text Pages >> North Creek Shelter - Cave or Rock Shelter in United States in The Southwest

Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 09 September 2010  Page Views: 7419

Natural PlacesSite Name: North Creek Shelter
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 61.406 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Southwest Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Escalante, UT
Latitude: 37.771000N  Longitude: 111.685W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Rockshelter with rock art in Utah.
Visible evidence of habitation include granaries in the cliff faces and petroglyphs and pictograms.

A Brigham Young University dig of the floor of the rock shelter has found artifacts dating back 10000 years, making the shelter one of the oldest habitation sites in Utah. Tools, beads, figurines, and food debris come from Paleoarchaic, Archaic, Fremont, Ancestral Puebloan, and historic cultures.
I'm uncertain whether the shelter itself is on public land (BLM) or private property. However, the site lies directly behind the Slot Canyon Inn, on North Creek, outside of Escalante. I'd recommend asking there for information and access. (The location given is for the inn.)

Note: Excavation of prehistoric home finished in Utah. 10000 years of habitation. See comment.
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What the locals ate 10,000 years ago by bat400 on Sunday, 10 October 2010
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Submitted by coldrum ---

BYU archaeologists find a Utah site occupied by humans 11,000 years ago.The researchers documented a variety of dishes the people dined on back then.Grind stones for milling small seeds appeared 10,000 years ago.

If you had a dinner invitation in Utah's Escalante Valley almost 10,000 years ago, you would have come just in time to try a new menu item: mush cooked from the flour of milled sage brush seeds.

After five summers of meticulous excavation, Brigham Young University archaeologists are beginning to publish what they've learned from the "North Creek Shelter." It's the oldest known site occupied by humans in the southern half of Utah and one of only three such archaeological sites state-wide that date so far back in time.

BYU anthropologist Joel Janetski led a group of students that earned a National Science Foundation grant to "get to the bottom" of a site occupied on and off for the past 11,000 years, according to multiple radiocarbon estimates.

"The student excavators worked morning till night in their bare feet," Janetski said. "They knew it was really important and took their shoes off to avoid contaminating the old dirt with the new."

In the upcoming issue of the journal Kiva, Janetski and his former students describe the stone tools used to grind sage, salt bush and grass seeds into flour. Because those seeds are so tiny, a single serving would have required quite a bit of seed gathering. But that doesn't mean whoever inhabited North Creek Shelter had no other choice.

Prior to the appearance of grinding stones, the menu contained duck, beaver and turkey. Sheep became more common later on. And deer was a staple at all levels of the dig.

"Ten thousand years ago, there was a change in the technology with grinding stones appearing for the first time," Janetski said. "People started to use these tools to process small seeds into flour."

Source: http://www.physorg.com.

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Excavation of prehistoric home finished by bat400 on Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Submitted by coldrum --

Joette Marie Rex lives west of remote Escalante in southern Utah, but she’s no homesteader: An excavation by archaeologists from Brigham Young University unearthed evidence that the site of Rex’s inn may be one of the oldest inhabited places in the area.

The prehistoric dwelling place, called the North Creek Shelter Site, is behind Rex’s bed-and-breakfast and has been known for decades. But it wasn’t until 2003 that archaeologists began digging through layers of cultural eras until they stopped 12 feet down at the Paleoarchaic period, which dates back to at least 9,000 B.C.

“We knew of pictographs and petroglyphs, but suspected there might be a village,” said Rex, who owns the Slot Canyons Inn.

Her suspicions were confirmed when archaeologists from Brigham Young University working at other sites in the southern Utah area agreed to poke around. What they found was one of the oldest archaeological sites in Utah, pushing back by several thousand years the date the area was originally thought to have been first occupied.

Joel Janetski, a retired emeritus archaeologist with BYU who conducted the dig beginning in 2004, said bones and charcoal from the site were radiocarbon dated to several different prehistoric eras.

He said the site reveals how people hunted big game through the ages, including deer, elk and big horn sheep, and eventually started making pottery and established agriculture. “We see at the site grinding stones like metates and other hand stones,” said Janetski, whose research was sponsored in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

He said the site holds evidence of cultures ranging from the Paleoarchaic to just more than 100 years ago, including the Fremont and Anasazi peoples and the Paiute. There’s also signs of gaps in occupation that could be explained by various factors.

One of the most compelling discoveries was that prehistoric Utahns ground seeds of sagebrush and grasses into a flour used in cooking. Janetski said corn appeared about 1,000 years ago. Pottery sherds indicate there probably was trading with pre-Puebloan cultures from the Four Corners region to the east.

The researchers have submitted two papers to the journal Kiva, one of which will be published this fall. The other is under review. Two other papers are under consideration by American Antiquity and Utah Historical Quarterly.

“We wanted to reach a variety of people,” Janetski said.



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