Assessing the Relationship between Vegetation Zones and Archaeology on the Nevada Test and Training Range

Part of the Nellis Air Force Base (DRAFT) project

Author(s): Marcus P. Grant; Sherri Wenzlau

Year: 2008

Summary

Geo-Marine, Inc., Las Vegas, Nevada, conducted intensive cultural resources inventories on 10,624 acres and an experimental inventory on an additional 2,220 acres near Black Mountain (for a grand total of 12,844 acres) within the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). As a result of this effort, 143 archaeological sites were recorded; an additional 41 site locations were noted but not fully recorded during experimental inventories in the Black Mountain area.

Cite this Record

Assessing the Relationship between Vegetation Zones and Archaeology on the Nevada Test and Training Range. Marcus P. Grant, Sherri Wenzlau. Plano, Texas: Geo-Marine, Inc. 2008 ( tDAR id: 456325) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8456325

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Keywords

Culture
Southern Paiute • Western Shoshone

Material
Basketry • Ceramic • Macrobotanical • Wood

Site Name
26CK7497 • 26NY12261 • 26NY12500 • 26NY12501 • 26NY12505 • 26NY12508 • 26NY12510 • 26NY12520 • 26NY12524 • 26NY12525 • 26NY12529 • 26NY12531 • 26NY12559 • 26NY12685 • 26NY12687 • 26NY12692

Site Type
Rock Shelter

Investigation Types
Environment Research • Ethnohistoric Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Records Search / Inventory Checking

General
Black Mountain

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

Temporal Keywords
Gypsum Period • Late Prehistoric • Pinto Period • Pre-Archaic • Rose spring phase

Spatial Coverage

min long: -117.728; min lat: 36.054 ; max long: -114.082; max lat: 38.36 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Nellis Air Force Base CRM Manager

Contributor(s): Richard Arnold; Michael McFaul; Eugene J. Romanski; Adam Berg; Tyler Cremeens

Record Identifiers

Miscellaneous Reports of Investigations No.(s): 419

File Information

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