TheStar.com – Utah canyon held ancient secrets

The Fremont people, named for a Spanish explorer who never met them, remain a poorly understood collection of scattered archaic groups, but a tenuous link to North America’s earliest inhabitants, believed to have arrived via the Bering Strait more than 10,000 years ago.

Their style of basket weaving, animal-claw moccasins and farming and hunting skills distinguish the Fremont from other early peoples.

Fremont tools and pottery differed from the farming-dependent Anasazi south of the Colorado River, even as they shared a similar fate.