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Typical Moki Hut placement in the crevice of the cliff

|} The Fremont culture or Fremont people, named by Noel Morss of Harvard's Peabody MUseum after the Fremont River in Utah, is an archaeological culture that inhabited what is now Utah and parts of eastern Nevada, southern Idaho, southern Wyoming, and eastern Colorado between about 400 and 1300 AD. Download high resolution version (480x640, 118 KB)A Moki granary in Capitol Reef National Park In the crevice halfway up the cliff is a granary built by the Fremont people in a canyon near the Fremont River Photograph taken by User:Bob Palin on 31st October 2004. ... Download high resolution version (480x640, 118 KB)A Moki granary in Capitol Reef National Park In the crevice halfway up the cliff is a granary built by the Fremont people in a canyon near the Fremont River Photograph taken by User:Bob Palin on 31st October 2004. ... The Fremont River in Utah flows from the Johnson Valley Reservoir near Fishlake southwest through Capitol Reef National Park to the Muddy Creek near Hanksville where the two rivers combine to form the Dirty Devil River, a tributary of the Colorado River. ... // History Early history Native Americans have lived in Utah for several thousand years; most archeological evidence dates such habitation about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. ... In archaeology, culture refers to either of two separate but allied concepts: An archaeological culture is a pattern of similar artefacts and features found within a specific area over a limited period of time. ... State nickname: Silver State, Battle Born State (official) Other U.S. States Capital Carson City Largest city Las Vegas Governor Kenny Guinn (R) Senators Harry Reid (D) John Ensign (R) Official languages None Area 286,367 km² (7th)  - Land 284,396 km²  - Water 1,971 km² (0. ... State nickname: Gem State Other U.S. States Capital Boise Largest city Boise Governor Dirk Kempthorne (R) Senators Larry Craig (R) Mike Crapo (R) Official language(s) none Area 216,632 km² (14th)  - Land 214,499 km²  - Water 2,133 km² (0. ... State nickname: The Centennial State Other U.S. States Capital Denver Largest city Denver Governor Bill Owens (R) Senators Wayne Allard (R) Ken Salazar (D) Official languages English Area 269,837 km² (8th)  - Land 268,879 km²  - Water 962 km² (0. ...

The Fremont culture unit was characterised by small, scattered communities that subsisted primarily through maize cultivation. Archaeologists have long debated whether the Fremont were a local Archaic population that adopted village-dwelling life from the neighboring Anasazi culture to the south, or whether they represent an actual migration of Basketmakers (the earliest culture stage in the Anasazi Culture) into the northern American Southwest or the area that Julian Steward once called the "Northern Periphery". Binomial name Zea mays L. Maize (Zea mays ssp. ...

The Fremont have some unique material culture traits that mark them as a distinct and identifiable archaeological culture unit, and recent mtDNA data indicate they are a biologically distinct population, separate from the Basketmaker. What early archaeologists such as Morss or Marie Wormington used to define the Fremont was their distinctive pottery, particularly vessel forms, incised and applique decorations, and unique leather moccasins. However, their house forms and overall technology are virtually indistinguishable from the Anasazi. Their habitations were initially circular pit-houses but they began to adopt rectangular stone-built pueblo homes above ground. The word moccasin was first introduced into English in 1612, from a Virginia Algonquian language, most likely Powhatan (makasin ‘shoe’), though similar words exist in Narragansett (mokussin), Micmac (m’kusun), and Ojibwa (makasin). ... A dugout or dug-out is a shelter dug out of the ground. ... Pueblos are traditional Native American communities of the Southwest United States of America. ...

Marwitt (1970) defined local or geographic variations within the Fremont culture area based largely on differences in ceramic production and geogrpahy. Marwitt's subdivisions are the Parowan Fremontin southwestern Utah, the Sevier Fremont in west central Utah and eastern Nevada, the Great Salt Lake Fremont stretching between the Great Salt Lake and the Snake River in southern Idaho, Unita Fremont in northeastern Utah, and arguably the San Raphael Fremont in eastern Utah and western Colorado. (The latter geographic variant may well be indivisible from the San Juan Anasazi.) Satellite Photo of the Great Salt Lake as it looked in the summer of 2003 Great Salt Lake is an endorheic saline lake in northern Utah, much saltier than the ocean. ...

A Fremont Granary called Moki Huts locally

A Moki Hut in a crevice of a canyon near the Fremont River in Capitol Reef National Park Picture taken by User:Bob Palin on 31st October 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A Moki Hut in a crevice of a canyon near the Fremont River in Capitol Reef National Park Picture taken by User:Bob Palin on 31st October 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

External link

Nationl Park Service

Source

John P. Marwitt 1970. Median Village and Fremont Culture Regional Variation, University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 95. Salt Lake City.

Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, Darvill, T (ed), OUP, Oxford, 2003