SAS Webinar
“Living on the Spine of the World: Placemaking at Early Community Centers Rincon, UT”
by
Daniel Hampson
Monday, April 10, 2023
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. PT

Rincon Bench, located on the northern bench above the San Juan River at the intersection of Comb Ridge in southeast Utah has been the site for large communities from 500 BCE through 900 CE. Many archaeological sites exist at this intersection. Three different temporal community centers—the Basketmaker II, Basketmaker III, and Pueblo I periods—were constructed and used by ancestral Puebloans at Rincon Bench. Daniel’s thesis research has focused on an intensive survey of sites in this Rincon Bench Community. Daniel will discuss the results of his survey and offer insight into Mesa Verde prehistory and this region.

Daniel Hampson is a graduate student at New Mexico State University expecting to graduate this spring with a Master of Arts in Anthropology. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Fort Lewis College in 2016. Since then as archaeologist with Woods Canyon Archaeological Consultants and Archaeological Lab Employee at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Daniel has extensive experience analyzing human remains, faunal, lithic, non-flaked lithic and ceramic collections on archaeological projects in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. Daniel has used this growing experience to perform the research on Rincon Bench.