USU Archeology Field School 1997
Dugway Proving Ground, Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah

Dr. Steven R. Simms, Utah State University, Director
Dave N. Schmitt, Utah Geological Survey, Associate Director

The 1997 field school included all of the activities described above for the 1999 field school. In addition, a small forager campsite, dating to about 5,000 years ago, was excavated. Two articles on the work have been published. A general piece describes the excavations and findings:

Simms, Steven R., Dave N. Schmitt, and Kristen Jensen
1999 Playa View Dune: A Mid-Holocene Campsite in the Great Salt Lake
Desert. Utah Archaeology 12:31-52.

Another article by students in the 1997 field school describes a study of fire-cracked rock to help interpret what happened at the site:

Jensen, Kristen, Jill Jensen and Celeste Clegg
1999 Inferring Intensity of Site Use From the Breakdown Rate and Discard
Patterns of Fire-Cracked Rock at Playa View Dune. Utah Archaeology
12:51-64.