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Show 0MB Wo. 1024-0018 Expires 10-31-87 NFS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form Hogup Cave Continuation sheet B OX Elder County, Utah____Item number 8___________Page 3 Unit IV (A.D. 1350 1850); Shoshoni The top 2 strata of this large cave are attributed to the Shoshoni and comprise Aikens' Unit IV. This occupation, dated from A.D. 1350 to 1850, is characterlzecTby Slioshoni ware pottery, Desert Archaic projectile point types (Desert Side-notched being the most common type), and various hide artifacts. Hunting is apparently the most important economic activity represented, with bison being the most common species hunted. Although Aikens assigns a beginning date of A.D. 1350 to the Shoshoni (Unit IV) occupation at Hogup, there is an apparent overlap with the preceding Salt Lake Fremont (Unit III) occupation; to quote Aiken's (1970b): "the data from Hogup Cave support the idea of ethnic and cultural replacement of the Fremont by Numic-speaking peoples." He further suggests that "the ascendancy of the Shoshoni over the Fremont group was not achieved abruptly. Shoshoni ware pottery sherds occur in small numbers in Fremont strata (Unit III), increasing considerably in the latter part of the Fremont deposit and becoming numerically dominant only in Unit IV, attributed to the Shoshoni culture." Thus a mixed Fremont-Numic utilization is well documented for northwestern as well as for southwestern Utah, although the approximate time of the Shoshoni entry into the immediate Great Salt Lake area is not yet known. |
