The pages which follow are a report of the findings from a series of archeological excavations in western Utah. The archeological sites were Danger (42To13), Juke Box (42To20), and Raven (24EK2) caves. Of these three Danger Cave was the most informative and lends its name to the report. Juke Box and Raven provided interesting problems in excavation, but their evidence as to cultural events was meager.

The human story inferred in this report was set in one of the most remarkable of North American environments—the desert West. The natural subsistence resources of this land are today quite sparse; the balance between success and failure in survival has always been delicate. The fact that human groups survived in this environment deserves serious ecological note. Although no intensive study of this aspect of the problem is being undertaken here, the cultural data cannot be appreciated or evaluated without a modicum of information regarding the terrain and the biotic resources of the region.