Abstract
Recent excavations at Pharo Heights, a residential site in the subalpine region of the Pahvant Range in central Utah, and the dating of a storage feature associated with Pharo Village, a Fremont hamlet at the base of the eastern side of the range, indicate contemporaneous occupations between approximately 1,650 and 500 cal B.P. Combined with survey data suggesting a long period of Archaic hunting along the crest of the Pahvants, this information suggests intensive exploitation and seasonal residential occupation of the high country developed alongside population growth and economic intensification in the lowlands, likely as a way of increasing hunting returns, but probably not as a way of facilitating trade or travel. This interpretation suggests that Fremont farming and hunting intensification were interlinked, a model in accord with both regional and global perspectives identifying economic intensification as the primary impetus for intensive, residential occupation at high altitude.