Presentation on Late Prehistoric pottery in Wyoming March 20
by Wyoming Archaeology Society - Upper Green River Basin Chapter
March 18, 2018
Everyone is welcome to come hear an archaeology talk about Late Prehistoric pottery in Wyoming on Tuesday, March 20th at 6:30PM at the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale. The talk is hosted by the Upper Green River Basin Chapter of the Wyoming Archaeological Society. There will be a short business meeting followed by a presentation by Michael Page with the Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist-Archaeological Survey Division. Everyone is welcome. Please invite your friends.
The Upper Green River Basin Chapter of the Wyoming Archeology Society will be having a meeting on Tuesday, March 20th, at 6:30 pm at the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale. There will be a short business meeting followed by a presentation by Michael Page with the Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist-Archaeological Survey Division. Everyone is welcome. Please invite your friends.
PRESENTATION: "Pottery traditions found in western Wyoming " by Michael Page
Prehistoric/Protohistoric pottery is uncommon in Wyoming. However, what the state lacks in quantity it makes up for in diversity. A recent analysis of the pottery collections held at the University of Wyoming Archaeological Repository revealed evidence of thirteen different ceramic traditions. Some of these traditions are related, but most are not. Unfortunately, the study also showed that many Wyoming archaeologists have made little effort to identify pottery assemblages. This has been particularly prevalent in in Upper and Lower Green River Basin where most of the pottery recorded in recent decades misidentified as Intermountain/Shoshone or just summarily described as "gray ware." The pottery found in Western Wyoming can be assigned to five or six distinct ceramic traditions, many of which are directly associated with known cultural groups. The presentation will provide an overview of the pottery traditions found in western Wyoming including their diagnostic characteristics, spatial/temporal parameters and cultural affiliations. A more complete understanding of the Late Prehistoric period in western Wyoming is evident when all the evidence is taken into consideration.
Michael Page graduated with a B.S. in Archaeological Studies from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse in 2000. In 2003 Michael came to Wyoming to attend Graduate School and later Law School where he earned a JD in May 2009 followed shortly thereafter with an M.A. in Anthropology. Michael has worked on a wide range of archaeological and cultural resource management projects throughout Wyoming as well as in the upper Midwest, the Southeast and the Great Plains. Since 2010, Michael has worked for the Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist-Archaeological Survey Division where he provides cultural resource management services for a range of clients primarily in the public sector. Michael’s personal research interests include prehistoric pottery production, anthropology of learning, sourcing of pottery and stone and geoarchaeology.
MEMBERSHIP: Dues for 2018 membership are due by end of March. $20/Individual, $25/Family. If you would like to be a member and have not paid yet this year, please bring payment to the March meeting, or print and mail the membership form (http://www.sublette.com/was/pdf/Membershipform.pdf) along with your dues. Membership dues help support WAS efforts at the state and local level including paying travel for speakers to come here to give great presentations.
For more information contact:
Clint Gilchrist, Secretary/Treasurer UGRB Chapter WAS
clint@sublette.com
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