STABLE ISOTOPE AND RADIOCARBON ANALYSIS OF MODERN LACUSTRINE STROMATOLITES IN GREAT SALT LAKE, UTAH

Climate and Diet in Fremont Prehistory: Economic Variability and Abandonment of Maize Agriculture in the Great Salt Lake Basin

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/1593822 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 67 (3) ◽

pp. 453-485 ◽

Cited By ~ 62

Author(s):

Joan Brenner Coltrain ◽

Steven W. Leavitt

Keyword(s):

Stable Isotope ◽

Salt Lake ◽

Great Salt Lake ◽

Temporal Correlation ◽

Bone Collagen ◽

Initial Increase ◽

Lake Basin ◽

Maize Agriculture ◽

Economic Diversity ◽

Economic Strategies

Research reported here is based on the stable isotope (δ 13C,δ 15N) and radiocarbon chemistry of Fremont burials from wetlands lining the eastern shores of the Great Salt Lake (GSL). Bone collagen stable isotope signatures covary with reliance on maize and intake of animal protein, facilitating useful reconstructions of past diet. Among the GSL Fremont, economic strategies vary over time with an initial increase in reliance on maize (A.D. 400–850) followed by a period of marked economic diversity (A.D 850–1150) then a return to reliance on wild foods (after A.D. 1150). During the period of greatest economic diversity, male and female diets vary significantly and male diets are correlated with status differences evidenced by grave goods. There is also a clear temporal correlation between the rapid abandonment of maize agriculture and significant moisture anomalies in regional tree-ring chronologies and pollen profiles. These results are discussed in the context of recent arguments regarding economic diversity, social complexity, and the demise of the Fremont.

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Carbonate facies‐specific stable isotope data record climate, hydrology, and microbial communities in Great Salt Lake, UT

Geobiology ◽

10.1111/gbi.12386 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (5) ◽

pp. 566-593 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Miquela Ingalls ◽

Carie M. Frantz ◽

Kathryn E. Snell ◽

Elizabeth J. Trower

Keyword(s):

Stable Isotope ◽

Microbial Communities ◽

Salt Lake ◽

Great Salt Lake ◽

Carbonate Facies ◽

Isotope Data ◽

Data Record ◽

Stable Isotope Data

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Contrasting the Impact of the Natural Hydrologic Cycles and Legacy Highway Construction on Farmington Bay Wetlands of the Great Salt Lake.

Critical Transitions in Water and Environmental Resources Management ◽

10.1061/40737(2004)13 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

Robb Edgar

Keyword(s):

Salt Lake ◽

Great Salt Lake ◽

Highway Construction ◽

The Impact

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Bibliographic notes on H. Stansbury's Exploration and survey of …/ Expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2003.30.2.317 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 317-330 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

L. J. Dorr ◽

D. H. Nicolson ◽

L. K. Overstreet

Keyword(s):

Salt Lake ◽

Great Salt Lake ◽

Title Page ◽

Classic Work ◽

Us Government ◽

Multiple Issues ◽

Title Pages

Howard Stansbury's classic work is bibliographically complex, with two true editions as well as multiple issues of the first edition. The first edition was printed in Philadelphia; its 487 stereotyped pages were issued in 1852 under two different titles with three variant title-pages (an official US government issue and two trade issues). A second edition was printed in Washington in 1853 and had 495 typeset pages (with corrections and additions in the appendices). The issue of 1855 is identical to the 1852 trade issue, except for the change of the date on the title-page. Each issue and edition, with its bindings and plates, is described.

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