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PersPectives on Prehistoric Trade and Exchange in California and ThE GrEaT Basin EdiTEd By richard e. hughes PersPectives on Prehistoric Trade and Exchange in California and the Great Basin PersPectives on Prehistoric Trade and Exchange in California and the Great Basin EdiTEd by richard e. hughes The University of Utah Press Salt Lake City Copyright © 2011 by The University of Utah Press. All rights reserved. The Defiance House Man colophon is a registered trademark of the University of Utah Press. It is based upon a 4-ft-tall, ancient Puebloan pictograph (late PIII) near Glen Canyon, Utah. 15 14 13 12 11 1 2 3 4 5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Perspectives on prehistoric trade and exchange in California and the Great Basin / edited by Richard E. Hughes. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-60781-200-5 (ebook) 1. Commerce, Prehistoric — California. 2. Commerce, Prehistoric — Great Basin. 3. Indians of North America — Commerce — California. 4. Indians of North America — Commerce — Great Basin. 5. California — Antiquities. 6. Great Basin — Antiquities. I. Hughes, Richard E. (Richard Edward), 1947– E98.C7P47 2011 979.4'01 — dc23 2011027531 Index by Andrew L. Christenson To David A. Fredrickson, for a lifetime of inspiration • Contents List of Figures ix List of Tables xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Richard E. Hughes 1. Sources of Inspiration for Studies of Prehistoric Resource Acquisition and Materials Conveyance in California and the Great Basin 1 Richard E. Hughes 2. Interaction and Exchange in Fremont Society 22 Joel C. Janetski, Cady B. Jardine, and Christopher N. Watkins 3. The Role of Mobility and Exchange in the Conveyance of Toolstone During the Great Basin Paleoarchaic 55 Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones 4. The Function of Shell Bead Exchange in Central California 83 Jeffrey S. Rosenthal 5. On the Role of Siskiyou Utility Ware as a Social Network Marker in Late Prehistoric Northern California and Southern Oregon 114 Joanne M. Mack 6. Pot Conveyance, Design Characteristics, and Precontact Adaptations to Arid Environments 135 Jelmer W. Eerkens 7. Evaluating Alternative Models for the Conveyance of Bodie Hills Obsidian into Central California 148 Jerome King, William R. Hildebrandt, and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal 8. Current Perspectives on the Production and Conveyance of Coso Obsidian 171 Amy J. Gilreath and William R. Hildebrandt 9. Obsidian in the Carson Desert: Mobility or Trade? 189 Robert L. Kelly 10. Exploring Prehistoric Trade in Western Great Basin Textiles 201 Catherine S. Fowler and Eugene M. Hattori vii Contents 11. Constraints on Long-Distance Movement of Plant Foods in the Great Basin 221 David Rhode 12. Material Conveyance in Prehistoric California: Cultural Contexts and Mechanisms 242 Michael J. Moratto 13. Multiscalar Perspectives on Trade and Exchange in the Great Basin: A Critical Discussion 253 David Hurst Thomas Contributors 267 Index 269 viii Figures 2.1. Map of Fremont area showing Utah and Idaho showing relative major excavated sites. 24 importance of the sources to 2.2. Rock art panel in Capitol Reef regions on the Fremont landscape. 45 National Park depicting anthropo- 3.1. Examples of Great Basin Stemmed morphs with face painting. 27 Series points (Cougar Mountain, 2.3. Example of stylistically similar Parman, Lake Mohave, Silver Lake), rock art panels from the Calf fluted and unfluted lanceolates, Creek area in Grand Staircase– and a crescent. 60 Escalante National Monument and 3.2. Location of eastern Nevada sites. 61 Clear Creek Canyon. 28 3.3. Obsidian sources of known location 2.4. Fremont figurines from the Nine represented in the eastern Nevada Mile Canyon area and Hinckley assemblages. 62 Mounds, Utah Valley. 28 3.4. Locations of dacite (fine-grained 2.5. Examples of coffee bean appliqué volcanic) sources in the eastern on a pitcher from the Round Spring Nevada study area. 64 site on the Colorado Plateau. 30 3.5. Five lithic conveyance zones 2.6. Ernest Lohse and Rebecca Rauch hypothesized by Jones et al. 65 recovering a bone and lignite disk 3.6. Chronological order of eastern bead necklace at Nawthis Village Nevada site assemblages based on in 1978. 32 obsidian hydration. 67 2.7. Distribution of Great Salt Lake Gray 3.7. Obsidian and dacite (fine-grained ceramics expressed in number of volcanic) sources of known location sherds per excavated structure. 35 represented in the Coal Valley 2.8. Distribution of Ivie Creek Black-on- assemblages. 73 white ceramics expressed in number 3.8. Alternative model to the eastern of sherds per excavated structure. 36 conveyance zone model presented 2.9. Distribution of Snake Valley Black-on- by Jones et al. 74 gray ceramics expressed in number 3.9. Obsidian source richness in relation of sherds per excavated structure. 37 to sample size in the eastern Nevada 2.10. Olivella shell from Nephi Mounds in site assemblages. 76 central Utah: O. dama barrel beads, 4.1. Acorn as a proportion of all nutshell O. biplicata whorl beads. 39 from archaeological sites in the 2.11. Turquoise from the Fremont sites Central Valley and Sierra Nevada. 90 Baker Village and Five Finger Ridge. 41 4.2. Small-seed frequency per liter of 2.12. Distribution of exotics (Olivella plus sediment in archaeological sites turquoise) at Fremont sites expressed from the Central Valley and in number of specimens per excavated Sierra Nevada. 90 structure. 43 4.3. Frequency of large-mammal bone in 2.13. Major obsidian source locations in late Holocene archaeological sites ix

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