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Mantle's Cave: Learn More

Adovasio, J.M.
1977: Basketry Technology: A Guide to Identification and Analysis. Aldine Publishing, Chicago.
1986: Prehistoric Basketry. In Great Basin, edited by Warren L. D'Azevedo, pp. 194-214. Handbook of North American Indians, edited by W.C. Sturtevant. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Adovasio, J.M., David R. Pedler and Jeff S. Illingworth
2002: Fremont Basketry. Utah Archaeology 15 (1): 5-41.

Allen, Marti L. and Michelle R. Munsey
2002: In Search of Meaning: The Pectol-Lee Deer Headdress. In Relics Revisited, New Perspectives on an Early Twentieth-Century Collection, edited by Marti L. Nelson. Museum of Peoples and Cultures: Popular Series 3, Provo, Utah, 99-143.

Benden, Danielle and Sheila Goff
2005: Reanalysis of the Basketry from Mantle's Cave, Yampa Canyon, Colorado. Unpublished paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Burgh, Robert F. and Charles R. Scoggin
1948: The Archaeology of Castle Park, Dinosaur National Monument. University of Colorado Studies, Series in Anthropology, No. 2. University of Colorado Press, Boulder.

Goff, Sheila
2006: Caches in Northeastern Utah/Northwestern Colorado. Unpublished paper presented at Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Park City, Utah.

Hewes, Gordon W.
1952: Californian Flicker-Quill Headbands in the Light of An Ancient Colorado Cave Specimen. American Antiquity, Vol 18, No. 2, 147-154.

Horn, Johnathan C. and Alan D. Reed
1989: Structural Stabilizaton of Mantle's Cave (5MF1) Dinosaur National Monument, Moffat County, Colorado. Submitted to National Park Service, Dinosaur National Monument, Dinosaur, Colorado.

Jennings, Jesse D.
1978: Prehistory of Utah and the Eastern Great Basin. University of Utah Anthropological Papers Number 98, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Madsen, David B. and Steven R. Simms
1998: The Fremont Complex. Journal of World Prehistory 12 (2): 255-336.

Merkley, Tami and Clay Johnson
2002: Textiles. In Prehistoric Uinta Mountain Occupations, edited by Clay Johnson and Byron Loosle. Pp. 229-250. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

Morris, Earl H. and Robert F. Burgh
1941: Anasazi Basketry, Basketmaker II Through Pueblo III. Publication 533, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.

Truesdale, James A., Linda Scott Cummings and Clay Johnson
1993: Archaeological Investigations At Two Sites in Dinosaur National Monument: 42UN1724 and 5MF2645, Moffat County, Colorado.

Truesdale, James A.
1993: A Radiocarbon Age for the Flicker Feather Headdress From Mantle's Cave (5MF1), Dinosaur National Monument, Utah-Colorado. Southwestern Lore 59 (3): 26-33.

Sinkey, Leslie-lynne
2002: In Search of Insights: Basketry in the Pectol-Lee Collection. In Relics Revisited, New Perspectives on an Early Twentieth-Century Collection, edited by Marti L. Nelson. Museum of Peoples and Cultures: Popular Series 3. Provo, UT.

Spangler, Jerry
2000: Radiocarbon Dates, Acquired Wisdom, and the Search for Temporal Order in the Uinta Basin. In Intermountain Archaeology, edited by David B. Madsen and Michael D. Metcalf. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT.

Walker, Queeda Mantle
2005: The Mantle Ranch. Fred Pruett Books, Boulder, CO.