The name Fremont comes from the Fremont River located in the southeast portion of the state of Utah where this culture was first discovered. The 95 mile Fremont river merges with the Dirty Devil river and then with the Colorado River.

The Fremont people lived during the span of 700 to 1300 AD, primarily in the modern day state of Utah but also settle in the nearby areas in the states of Idaho, Colorado, and Nevada.

The Fremont Culture were a Puebloan culture and had strong cultural affiliations with other contemporary Puebloan cultures such as the Anasazi Culture. The primary difference between the two cultures is that that Anasazi Cultures built cliff dwellings while the Fremont more often lived in pit houses (homes dug into the ground and covered with a brush roof), wickiups (brush and log huts) and natural rock shelters.

The Fremont culture maintained a hunter and gatherer lifestyle. Deer, bighorn sheep, rabbits, birds, fish, and rodents were hunted using snares, nets, fishhooks, bow and arrow, and the atlatl. Native plants gathered included a variety of berries, bulbs, pinon nuts, rice grass and tubers.

The Fremont supplemented their diet by farming river bottoms with the three sisters: corn, beans, and squash.

Their corn was ground into meal using stone tools a flat stone surface, which is called a metate, by using a hand-held grinding stone, called a mano. After a harvest, their food was stored in baskets or pottery jars and placed inside small masonry structures, which are called granaries. The granaries which were normally tucked under small overhangs on narrow ledges to keep them both safe and out of sight of any who would steal the food.