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| Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Prologue | |
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| The Ancient World of the Basin-Plateau | |
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| Native Culture before the Horse | |
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| Technology | |
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| Mobility and Settlement | |
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| Subsistence | |
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| Sidebar: Forager Cuisine | |
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| Social and Political Organization | |
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| Ideology | |
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| From Historic Baseline to the Deep Past: A Spiral of Contexts | |
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| Ancient Climate and Habitats | |
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| The Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau | |
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| The Wasatch Front | |
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| Just before History | |
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| Stepping into a Deeper Past | |
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| Sidebar: How Do We Know about Past Environments and Climate? | |
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| Sidebar: Dates of the Past and How to Read Them | |
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| The Little Ice Age: A.D. 1300-1800 | |
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| Warming, Variation, and the Medieval Warm Period A.D. 0-1300 | |
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| Cooling and the Neoglacial Period: 4500-2000 B.P. (A.D. 0) | |
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| Two Spikes of Warming: 8000-4500 B.P. | |
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| The Early Holocene and Water in the Desert: 10,000-8000 B.P. | |
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| The Wild Ride of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition: 13,000-10,000 B.P. | |
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| Lake Bonneville and the Pleistocene: 16,000-13,000 B.P. | |
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| The First Explorers, Colonists, and Settlers | |
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| Sidebar: Who Were the First Explorers and Colonists? | |
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| An Ecological Moment and Why Paleoindian Life Was Different | |
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| Paleoindian-Paleoarchaic Artifacts | |
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| Paleoindian Places | |
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| Wetlands, Big Game, and a Dynamic Climate | |
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| Sidebar: Did Humans Kill Off the Pleistocene Megafauna? | |
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| Diet, Toolstone, Technology, and Mobility | |
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| What Can We Say about Paleoindian Life and Society? | |
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| Transition to Paleoarchaic Life and Society | |
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| Eons of Foragers | |
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| A Long Time and Some Big Changes | |
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| Settlers of the Early Archaic (9000-7000 B.P.) | |
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| High Desert Foragers of the Middle Archaic (7000-3000 B.P.) | |
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| Sidebar: The Built Environment | |
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| Sidebar: Humans and the Pinyon Pine | |
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| The Late Archaic and a Land Filled with Foragers (3000-1000 B.P.) | |
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| A Cultural Sea Change: The Shift in Values from Public to Private Goods | |
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| Farming Comes to Utah | |
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| The Fremont | |
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| Fremont Places, Fremont Life, Fremont Place | |
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| Sidebar: The Big Village at Willard (by Mark E. Stuart) | |
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| Keys to Fremont Origins | |
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| Indigenes, Explorers, and Colonists: The Fremont Frontier | |
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| Sidebar: Farming, Language, and Immigrants | |
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| Language, Ethnicity, and a Sprinkling of Neolithic Communities | |
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| The Bow and Arrow, Ceramics, and Maize | |
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| The Desert and the Sown | |
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| Big Villages, Inequality, and Hierarchy | |
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| Family, Lineage, Connections, and Conflict | |
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| The Late Prehistoric Millennium | |
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| The End of Fremont Place | |
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| Foragers to the West, People from the West | |
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| Languages Old and New | |
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| The Role of California | |
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| The Spread of the Numic Languages and the Making of the Numic Cultures | |
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| Sidebar: The Relationship of Modern Tribes to the Ancients | |
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| Many into the New: The Late Prehistoric on the Wasatch Front | |
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| Life after the Fremont | |
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| Widowed Continent: Disease, Depopulation, and History | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |