Keywords

Fremont archaeology, architecture, adobe

Abstract

The Fremont were small scale agriculturalists spread across the northern Colorado Plateau and eastern Great Basin from before A.D. 400 until the A.D. 1300s. Fremont residences are typically pit structures—although late adobe surface structures do occur—established as individual farmsteads, small hamlets, and villages of variable size, the largest with hundreds of occupants. In this paper we discuss how Fremont society was variably organized through time and space, including as households, communities, and dispersed communities. We describe architectural forms that denote not only residential, but also public, communal, and ritual functions. We then present a preliminary model of Fremont organizational strategies relative to social and environmental contexts.

Original Publication Citation

Katie K. Richards, James R. Allison, Richard Talbot, Scott Ure, and Lindsay Johansson 2013 Household Variation, Public Architecture, and the Organization of Fremont Communities. Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii. (presented by Katie Richards)