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<br />Fremont <br />The Fremont tradition exhibits a subsistence apparently based on corn agriculture <br />supplemented by hunting and gathering activities Cvlarwitt 1970). Uinta Fremont (.the <br />Fremont variant most likely to be present in the study area) is centered in northeast <br />Utah (Berry and Derry 1975). Sites are typic+tlly small settlements of one to five shallow <br />pit structures, though small open camps and rock shelter sites are also common. Sites <br />tre generally located on knolls, buttes, and on hill slopes above flood plains. <br />\ number of Fremont villages have been excavated, including several from Dinosaur <br />National titonument and Browns Hole in Colorado. Radiocarbon dates range from 600- <br />1100 A. D. Some polemic surrounds these dates: some archaeologists would restrict <br />Uinta-Fremont time spans to 1000-1300 A. D. Gerry and Berry 1975). <br />Pisins Woodland <br />After the Archaic stage, the Plains Woodland trsdition appears in the Central Plains, <br />penetrating into the mountain passes and parks. This Woodland tradition is marked by <br />• the sopearance of maize cultivation, pottery, and a more sedentary lifeway. Although <br />Bustern lVoodlnnd peoples were sedentary, the Plains '.Vuodland peoples remsined heavily <br />~le~endent on hunting and gathering and practiced only limited horticulture. Although <br />toodland sites arc small in the west, they are concentrated along rivers and streams <br />(Windmiller and Gddy L97G). <br />Unper Republican <br />• <br />In eastern Colorado and the Central Plains, the Plains toodland tradition was replaced <br />by the Upper Republican sometime after 1000 A.D. ',Viiether or not this Upper <br />Republican occupation extended into the Colorado Piedmont itas Keen in question (Nelson <br />1967). [n Kansas and Nebraska, the Upper Republican occupation consists of small <br />Hamlets supported by the cultivation of maize, beans, squash, and sunflowers (tVedel <br />1961). Pottery was more plentiful than in preceding Woodland times. The Upper <br />Republican tradition disappeared around 1500 A. D., possibly due to the onset of drought, <br />or the influx of Apache Groups (iVedel 1961). <br />17 <br />