On the Trail of Fremont Shield Bearers (1)
Wed, Mar 25
|Park City Museum Education Center
Join archaeologist Elizabeth Hora as she shares new research into rock imagery around the West. What do these shield bearers have to tell us about who they were, and where they went between 400 AD and today?
Time & Location
Mar 25, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Park City Museum Education Center, 2079 Sidewinder Drive, Park City, UT 84060, USA
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About the event
Park City Museum will host a lecture called On the Trail of Fremont Shield Bearers given by Elizabeth Hora on Wednesday, March 25, 2026 from 5-6 p.m. held at the Education and Collections Center located at 2079 Sidewinder Drive. More information can be found at www.parkcityhistory.org.
If you’ve been hiking through many of Utah’s canyons you likely have seen Fremont Shield-Bearers: a striking, if uncommon, human form that appears to hold a large circular shield in front of them or off to one side. Many past researchers have theorized the connection between Fremont shield-bearers and similar human forms in both Puebloan and Plains rock imagery traditions, but so far no quantifiable data have been suggested to evaluate the nature of their relationship, or even confirm its existence. In this presentation we will sample areas of prehistoric rock imagery to learn how their shield-bearers relate to each other in form, frequency,…