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Independence Rock is a large granite rock, approximately 130 feet (40 m) high, 1,900 feet (580 m) long, and 850 feet (260 m) wide, which is in southwestern Natrona County, Wyoming along Wyoming Highway 220. During the middle of the 19th century, it formed a prominent and well-known landmark on the Oregon, Mormon, and California emigrant trails. Many of these emigrants carved their names on it, and it was described by early missionary and explorer Father Pierre-Jean De Smet in 1840 as the Register of the Desert. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 20, 1961 and is now part of Independence Rock State Historic Site, owned and operated by the state of Wyoming.
The Horner Site, also known as the Creek Site and Horner's Corner Site, and designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 48PA29, is an important archaeological site near Cody, Wyoming. It is the type site for the Cody complex. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.
Register Cliff is a sandstone cliff and featured key navigational landmark prominently listed in the 19th century guidebooks about the Oregon Trail, and a place where many emigrants chiseled the names of their families on the soft stones of the cliff — it was one of the key checkpoint landmarks for parties heading west along the Platte River valley west of Fort John, Wyoming which allowed travelers to verify they were on the correct path up to South Pass and not moving into impassable mountain terrains—geographically, it is on the eastern ascent of the Continental divide leading upward out of the great plains in the east of the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is notable as a historic landmark for 'registering' hundreds of emigrants on the Oregon Trail who came to follow custom and inscribed their names on its rocks during the western migrations of the 19th century. An estimated 500,000 emigrants used these trails from 1843–1869, with up to one-tenth dying along the way, usually due to disease.
The Basin Oil Field Tipi Rings were first noted during a cultural resource inventory along a coal slurry pipeline route. Located near the confluence of Caballo Creek and the Belle Fourche River in northeastern Wyoming, the site primarily represents a Middle Missouri encampment in the Late Prehistoric or Protohistoric periods. The site may also have been occupied in the Late Archaic period. The middle Missouri tradition includes elements of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Crow.
The Dead Indian Campsite is an archeological site in the Sunlight Basin of the Absaroka Mountains in Park County, Wyoming, United States. The site was found during the construction of the Sunlight Basin Road in 1967. The location was used as a butchering site, and excavations by the University of Wyoming in 1969 uncovered numerous stone tools, as well as the bones of elk, deer, mountain sheep, porcupine and wolf. A stone cairn was found to contain antler sets. The site was used in different eras for 4500 years.
Mummy Cave is a rock shelter and archeological site in Park County, Wyoming, United States, near the eastern entrance to Yellowstone National Park. The site is adjacent to the concurrent U.S. Routes 14/16/20, on the left bank of the North Fork of the Shoshone River at an altitude of 6,310 feet (1,920 m) in Shoshone National Forest.
The Triangulation Point Draw Site is an archeological site in Uinta County, Wyoming. The camp was occupied by Native Americans from both the Great Basin and the northwestern Plains during the Late Prehistoric period. Surface artifacts found at the site include chipped stone points and tools, ground stone tools, fire locations and organic stains. Buried artifacts include fire rings and habitation-related disturbances. Projectile points at the site include Plains side-notched, Rose Spring corner-notched and Late Prehistoric corner-notched points, as well as a Late Prehistoric small corner-notched point similar to those found in Mummy Cave, more than 200 miles (320 km) to the north.
The Calpet Rockshelter, also known as the Overlook Rockshelter and Archeological Site 48SU354 is an archeological site in Sublette County, Wyoming. The site includes an overhanging rock outcrop at the base of a butte that was used by Native Americans and European-Americans. The Native American use includes occupation by the Shoshone. A number of surface artifacts have been found and at least two buried cultural levels have been investigated from the Fremont and late Prehistoric-period Shoshone. Fremont, Prehistoric, Protohistoric and Historic-period visitation is documented at nine petroglyph panels.
The Trappers Point Site is an archaeological site located near Pinedale, Wyoming. The site, which dates to the Early Archaic period, is the oldest known location used for the mass killing of pronghorn antelope. In addition, a large number of projectile points have been found at the site; the variety of projectile point designs at the site have helped establish how these tools developed, and the presence of points from many parts of the Green River valley have aided in determining prehistoric migration patterns. The site has been called "a major discovery in Wyoming archaeology" and "one of the key sites in Wyoming".
The Black Mountain Archeological District is a region of the Bighorn Basin near Shell, Wyoming that contains archeological sites associated with chert deposits used in making tools and weapons. Covering 530 acres (210 ha), the area was occupied from about 11,500 years ago in the Paleoindian Period to the Late Prehistoric Period of 1500 to 400 years ago. The sites have not yielded more recent artifacts. The area contains six rock shelters, two campsites at canyon bottoms and one interfluve campsite, as well as the Black Mountain and East Spring Creek chert quarries. The local chert comes from the Phosphoria Formation, and is red in color. The district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 2, 1987.
Medicine Lodge State Archeological Site is a Wyoming state park that interprets the Medicine Lodge Creek Site, a prehistoric Native American archeological site near Hyattville, Wyoming. It is administered by the Wyoming Division of State Parks and Historic Sites. The site is at the base of a steep limestone outcropping near the point where the dry and running portions of Medicine Lodge Creek join. for a protected location with ready access to water. The site includes petroglyphs and pictographs on the rock face. Excavations starting in the 1970s have found twelve levels of habitation in 10.5 feet of stratum, ranging from historic times to 8300 years before the present. The site comprises a portion of the former Wickwire Ranch, which was purchased by the state in 1972 and became to Medicine Lodge Wildlife Habitat Management Area of 12,000 acres (4,900 ha). The archeological site was designated in 1973. The site is managed as a state park, with campgrounds and a visitor center. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1973.
The Paint Rock Canyon Archeological Landscape District is a 5,340-acre (2,160 ha) area of Native American archeological sites on the west side of the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. The area contains sites ranging from the late Paleoindian period of about 9000 years before present to late Prehistoric times. The sites include open campsites and rock shelters. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 12, 1990.
The Southsider Shelter is a Native American rock shelter archeological site in Big Horn County, Wyoming.. The site has occupied from the late Paleoindian period to the Late Prehistoric period. Artifacts include projectile points and chipped stone. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 2012.
The Garrett Allen Prehistoric Site is an archeological site in Carbon County, Wyoming. The site was used in the Late Middle Prehistoric Period and into the Late Prehistoric Period. The site was used as an animal butchering location. Excavations by George Frison in the late 1960s and early 1970s revealed a continuous series of layers containing tools, stone flakes and projectile points. This site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 7, 1974.
The Dean Decker Site is an archeological site in Sweetwater and Fremont counties in Wyoming. The site extends for 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) along the terraces of Red Creek and Lower Sand Creek, with many Native American hearths and worked stone fragments. The site appears to have been used from the Middle Archaic Period to the Protohistoric Period. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 12, 1986.
The Eldon-Wall Terrace Site is an archeological site in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The site occupies about 600 metres (2,000 ft) of a terrace on Blacks Fork in the Green River Basin. The site includes numerous hearth sites, with stone chips and tools. A projectile point dates the site to the Middle Archaic period. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 13, 1985.
The Castle Gardens Petroglyph Site is a 6-mile (9.7 km) by 1-mile (1.6 km) region of vertical cliff faces in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States, with extensive petroglyph images incised in the rock faces. The glyphs include images of water turtles and circular shields, as well as human and animal figures. The figures with circular shields are particular to the area, and are known as Castle Gardens Shield style images. A consensus of researchers is that the figures were carved by Athabaskans related to the Navajo and Apache, some time between 1000 AD and 1250 AD. The site is being developed by the Bureau of Land Management, and may be visited.
The Helen Lookingbill Site is a prehistoric campsite in the Absaroka Mountains of Fremont County, Wyoming. Occupied over 12,500 years, the site has yielded more than 125,000 artifacts, including a large quantity of Early Plains Archaic side-notched points. The site has been assessed as a tool production location.
High Rise Village is a high-altitude archeological site in Fremont County, Wyoming. Discovered in 2006 in the Wind River Range in Shoshone National Forest, the location features almost sixty lodge pads and has yielded more than 30,000 artifacts from the Archaic to the Protohistoric Period, a period of over 2500 years. The site is at 3,500 metres (11,500 ft) of altitude and represents a major discovery of prehistoric occupation of high altitude zones, which had previously been neglected in archeological studies in the Western United States. High Rise Village and other similar locations share an association with stands of whitebark pines, an abundant food source.
The Patten Creek Site is prehistoric stone tool fabrication site in Platte County, Wyoming. The location was used mostly during the Pains Archaic period and has been shown by archeological investigation to represent about 3.6 metres (12 ft) of deposits. Primary investigation was undertaken at the site in the 1960s.
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- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ↑ "Split Rock Prehistoric Site". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office.
