Hogup Cave, a two-chambered limestone cavern on Hogup Mountain in northwestern Utah, became an important Great Basin shelter because it sits across several ecological zones near the Great Salt Lake Desert. Its exceptional significance comes from preserving more than 8,000 years of repeated human occupation, from about 6400 B.C. to as late as 1850 A.D., including continued Shoshone use. Excavations by C. Melvin Aikens in 1967 and 1968 uncovered 16 major layers and nearly 10,000 artifacts and organic remains, revealing long-term, practical reuse of the cave and making it one of Utah’s best-studied prehistoric cave sites.