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Utah's Ancient Fremont
AUGUST 2006
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Unforgiving Land
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The Fremont culture arose before A.D. 400 in the hardscrabble region that is now most of Utah and parts of nearby states. Despite the dry, unforgiving climate, they managed to cultivate corn, beans, and squash along waterways like Range Creek and the river from which they get their name. Supplementing their diet by hunting game and gathering wild plants, they found refuge from hard times in villages on defensible spits of land and hauled their harvests up canyon walls to granaries that were virtually impossible to raid.
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