TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGuire, Kelly R.
AU  - Hildebrandt, William R.
AU  - Young, D. Craig
AU  - Colligan, Kaely
AU  - Harold, Laura
A2  - American Museum of Natural History
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - At the vanishing point: environment and prehistoric land use in the Black Rock Desert
T3  - Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History
CY  - New York, NY
KW  - Paleo-Indians
KW  - Nevada
KW  - Black Rock Desert
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Sulphur Springs (Humboldt County)
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Dwellings
KW  - Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
KW  - Land use
KW  - History
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Environmental archaeology
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Paleoecology
KW  - Desert ecology
KW  - Antiquities, Prehistoric
KW  - Holocene Geologic Period
KW  - Indians of North America ; Antiquities
KW  - Indians of North America ; Dwellings
KW  - Pleistocene Geologic Epoch
KW  - Nevada ; Sulphur Springs (Humboldt County)
KW  - Nevada ; Black Rock Desert
KW  - Sulphur Springs (Humboldt County, Nev.)
AB  - "This volume presents the results of data recovery excavations directed at prehistoric archaeological deposits located near Sulphur Springs, along the southeastern margin of the Black Rock Desert, in Humboldt and Pershing counties, Nevada. Although 20 sites with prehistoric assemblages were identified during this project, intact spatio-temporal components were found at only seven of these sites, of which just five were the focus of intensive data recovery excavations: 26HU1830, 26HU1876, 26HU2871, 26HU3118, and 26HU5621. A total of 372 m³ of excavation by hand was directed at dateable components within these five sites. The results of this effort yielded a substantial artifact assemblage, including a variety of flaked and ground stone tools, shell and bone beads, as well as large quantities of faunal bone and debitage. Also documented were an assortment of features, including a number of small processing facilities and the remnants of several house floors. Key to this investigation was the isolation of a series of discrete temporal components. Eleven such components were identified representing six temporal intervals: Early Archaic (5700-3800 cal b.p.), Middle Archaic (ca. 3000 cal B.P.), mixed Middle/Late Archaic (3800-600 cal B.P.), Late Archaic A (1340-1165 cal B.P.), Late Archaic B (985-855 cal B.P.), as well as Late Archaic (1300-600 cal B.P.) deposits that could not be further separated into smaller units of time. It is particularly noteworthy that many of these components have very narrow time frames, in many cases smaller than the traditional Great Basin periods. The profile of projectwide time-sensitive projectile points and radiocarbon dates, coupled with a robust artifact and feature assemblage dated to narrow time frames, allows for an assessment of changes in habitation and land-use pattern with an unusual level of resolution. Prior to about 4500 years ago, occupations appear to have been sporadic, with people making brief visits to the area during periods of increased effective moisture and spring discharge associated with the Early Holocene, and largely avoiding it for more promising areas during times of drought during the Middle Holocene. Archaeological visibility increases significantly after 4500 cal B.P., including periods when substantial houses were constructed, and people supplemented the local resource base with foods and materials obtained from distant locations possessing richer concentrations of large game and obsidian toolstone. ...
SN  - 9780985201685
LA  - English
N1  - Kelly R. McGuire, William R. Hildebrandt, D. Craig Young, Kaely Colligan, and Laura Harold
ID  - 1678641405
ER  -