Fremont culture Typical Moki Hut placement in the crevice of the cliff A Fremont Granary ; called Moki Huts locally Fremont petroglyph , Dinosaur National Monument The Fremont culture or Fremont people is a pre-Columbian archaeological culture which received its name from the Fremont River in Utah where the first Fremont sites were discovered . The Fremont River itself is named for John Charles Frémont , an American explorer . It inhabited sites in what is now Utah and parts of Nevada , Idaho and Colorado from AD 700 to 1300 . It was adjacent to , roughly contemporaneous with but distinctly different from the Anasazi culture . Fremont Indian State Park in the Clear Creek Canyon area in south-central Utah contains the biggest Fremont culture site in Utah . Other sites are found in Dinosaur National Monument , Zion National Park and Arches National Park . While there is as yet no firm concensus as to the Fremont comprising a single , cohesive group with a common language , ancestry or lifeway , there are several aspects of their material culture that give credence to this notion . First , it is well known by researchers that those referred to as the Fremont lived a lifestyle that revolved largely around hunting and gathering and corn horticulture , in other words a continuum of fairly reliable subsistence strategies that no doubt varied from place to place and time to time . This shows up in the archaeological record at most village sites and long term camps as a collection of butchered , cooked and then dicarded bone from mostly deer and rabbits , charred corn cobs with the kernals removed , and wild edible plant remains . Other unifying characteristics include the manufacture of relatively expedient gray ware pottery and a signature style of basketry and rock art . Most of the Fremont lived in small single and extended family units comprising villages ranging from two to a dozen pithouse structures , with only a few having been occupied at any one time . Still , exceptions to this rule exist ( partly why the Fremont have earned a reputation for being so hard to define ) , including an unusually large village in the Parowan Valley of southwestern Utah , the large and extensively excavated village of Five Finger Ridge at the above mentioned Fremont Indian State Park , and others , all appearing to be anomilous in that they were either occupied for a long period of time , were simultaneously occupied by a large number of people , sixty or more at any given moment , or both . Recent developments The Range Creek Canyon site complex is unambiguously identified with the Fremont culture , and because of its astonishingly pristine state , promises to bring an immense amount of insight to this hitherto obscure archaeological culture . References National Park Service CP-Lunha site  This article relating to archaeology is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . Categories : Fremont culture | Native American tribes | Archaeological cultures | Archaeology of the Americas | Prehistory | Archaeology stubs 