Keywords

Fremont archaeology, anthropology, community organization

Abstract

In the far-northern reaches of the greater American Southwest, diverse groups of small-scale agriculturalists, labeled “Fremont” by archaeologists, spread across the northern Colorado Plateau and eastern Great Basin. During the long history of Fremont archaeology, most projects have focused on the excavation of only one or a few residences even in large village sites. Until recently, there has been little effort to understand Fremont social organization or Fremont communities and nothing that could be called household archaeology (but see Hall 2008; Hockett 1998; Janetski and Talbot 2000, 2014; Simms 2008). In fact, for many years the prevailing view has been that “there is no indication of community organization above the household level” (Sammons-Lohse 1981:134), although few archaeologists would now accept this proposition.

Original Publication Citation

Katie K. Richards, James R. Allison, Lindsay D. Johansson, Richard K. Talbot, and Scott M. Ure 2019 Household Variation, Public Architecture, and the Organization of Fremont Communities. In Communities and Households in the Greater Southwest: New Perspectives and Case Studies, edited by Robert J. Stokes, pp. 201-228. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.