Prehistoric Spatial Patterning and Subsistence Studies: Archaeological Investigations at Sample Unit U19arP4

Part of the Nellis Air Force Base (DRAFT) project

Author(s): William Gray Johnson; Anne Dubarton

Year: 1992

Summary

This report documents the methods and results of archaeological investigations at Sample Unit U19arP4 on Pahute Mesa at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Eight sites were located there: four lithic artifact scatters (26NY1370, 26NY1372, 26NY3666 and 26NY3667), two temporary camps (26NY3665 and 26NY5418), one artifact locality (26NY5419), and one quarry (26NY3664). One of the lithic scatters, 26NY3667, incorporated a previously recorded rock ring, 26NY1371 , that could not be relocated during subsequent investigations. Surface artifacts were collected from all but two of the sites, 26NY1370 and 26NY1372. The data retrieved from these investigations include over one thousand artifacts, such as projectile points, bifaces, debitage, groundstone, and pottery. The temporally diagnostic materials indicate periodic use of Sample Unit U19arP4 from the Middle Archaic to the Shoshonean period.

Cite this Record

Prehistoric Spatial Patterning and Subsistence Studies: Archaeological Investigations at Sample Unit U19arP4. William Gray Johnson, Anne Dubarton. Reno, Nevada: Desert Research Institute, Quaternary Sciences Center. 1992 ( tDAR id: 455832) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8455832

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Keywords

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Ground Stone

Site Name
26NY1367 • 26NY1368 • 26NY1370 • 26NY1371 • 26NY1372 • 26NY3664 • 26NY3665 • 26NY3666 • 26NY3667 • 26NY5418 • 26NY5419

Site Type
Artifact Scatter • Encampment • Quarry • Rock Ring

Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing

Geographic Keywords
Clark (County) • Las Vegas, Nevada • Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada • Nevada (State / Territory) • Nye (County) • Pahute Mesa • United States of America (Country)

Temporal Keywords
Early Archaic Period • Historic • Late Archaic Period • Middle Archaic • Paleoindian Period • Shoshonean Period

Spatial Coverage

min long: -116.362; min lat: 36.054 ; max long: -114.082; max lat: 37.213 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Nellis Air Force Base CRM Manager

Contributor(s): Susan Edwards; Harold Drollinger

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