Fremont culture

The Fremont culture was built around the year 400 in an area that included parts of present-day U.S. states of Utah, Eastern Nevada, Western Colorado and Southern Idaho. Common characteristics of the Fremont culture were the corn, Lehmziegelarchitektur, pit houses and ceramics. Its current name, the culture from the Fremont River in Utah.

The cultivation of corn, beans and pumpkins in watercourses supplemented the Fremont hunting and Sammlerei. Your grain they kept on in memories that were high on rock walls. This, and the protected location of settlements has violent conflicts about scarce supplies, back. The Fremont left numerous petroglyphs.

Southwest of the Fremont culture was the neighboring Anasazi culture.

Since the carrier of the Fremont culture among different ethnic groups and different habitats inhabited, there were many regional varieties. Some of these were:

• Parowan Fremont: 900-1250 in southwestern Utah, with strong Anasazi influence.

• Sevier - Fremont: 870-1250 in western Utah and eastern Nevada, with seasonal settlements and smaller communities.

• Great Salt Lake Fremont: 400-1350 with a predominance of hunting and gathering over the horticulture.

• Unita Basin Fremont: 650-950 in northeastern Utah with a lower importance of horticulture.

• San Raphael - Fremont: 700-1250 in eastern Utah and western Colorado, importance of maize production.

The late 14th century ended a devastating drought, which made ​​the corn farming impossible, the Fremont culture. At the same time advancing repressed Well - groups, ancestors of today's Shoshone and Comanche, the surviving carrier of the Fremont culture from the Great Basin.