Unit Level Forms and photographs for LA133088

Unit Level Forms and photographs for LA66373

This document is a review of archaeology research, compliance with NHPA, and Indian consultation from 1997 to 2004 on Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) and the largest training range in the Air Force, the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR).

Letter to the Commanding General about the 200 acres located adjacent to the Las Vegas, Nevada Municpal Airport for development as an Air Corps Gunnery School.

In January of 1981, Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) conducted an archaeological survey of five seismic lines located by Petroleum Geophysical Company on the northern slope of the Spring Mountains in Clark County, Nevada. The report of the results of that survey is dated 3 February 1981. This report contains the results of the survey of two additional seismic lines located within the same seismic program, and is a supplement to the original report. This survey, which totalled 9.35 miles...

Airfield Canyon Photos.

Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) has proposed construction of a borrow pit and associated infrastructure elements within Range 61 (R61) on Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), Lincoln County, Nevada. Associated elements will include two access roads and two staging areas. Figure 1 Illustrates the extent of the area of potential effects (APE).

The resource document was produced in response to the preparation of an LEIS for the Nellis Air Force Range Renewal, Nevada. The consultation focused specifically on the proposed action and alternatives concerning the future renewal of the NAFR. However, the present CGTO's response to this consultation is not limited to the LEIS, but also integrates relevant recommendations and insights made by Indian people based on previous and existing federal projects in which American Indians participated.

The chapters in this volume examine the history, evolution, dynamics, and results to date of an ongoing consultation relationship between the U.S. Department of Energy Nevada operations Office (DOE/NV) and 20 tribes and organizations composed of ethnic Numic speaking, Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, and Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone people.

The purpose of this study is to provide an ethnohistoric and ethnographic assessment of selected contemporary communities along the Old Spanish Trail.

This pamphlet is one of a series prepared in the interest of science education.

Collection of essays addressing the history of Numic-speaking American Indians. The goal of this study is to revisit historical processes and events that transformed the lives of these Americans so profoundly that their effects are still being felt today.

The present essays, that are officially referred to as “”Project 2,” further document the Numic and Yuman cultural attachments to portions of central Nevada represented in Black Mountain and the Black Mountain District.

A Sample of Kinship charts.

This report describes the results of an investigation into the status of archaeological collections from archaeological sites located on Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) and Range, Nevada.

The data recovery conducted at Ul9an mitigates the impacts to the archaeological sites in danger of direct impacts. If the project is conducted as planned, there will be no further impacts to cultural resources.

The area, located on the west side of the Nevada Test Site, actually consists of four project areas. Three are contiguous (the U20at drill pad, the access road/ skid trail, and the borrow location #2), and one is east of the main survey area {the borrow location #1 ). The survey identified and recorded 16 sites. Of these, 13 were isolates or localities with two artifacts.

ln response to Contract Number NV050-417, received from the Las Vegas District Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an intensive cultural resource inventory, or surface archaeological survey, was conducted along forty miles of a proposed fence line construction along the northern boundary of the Nellis Air Force Range from the Tonopah Highway (U.S. 95) to three miles east of Silver Bow, Nevada.

This document presents a research design for investigating the archaeological nature of three relict pluvial lake basins on the North Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) (Figure 1) for cultural resources potential. This research is in support of the mission of Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) to provide combat air training on the largest Air Force land based training facility in the United States (U.S.).

Archaeological investigations were initiated at Sample Unit 19-25 to retrieve information concerning settlement and subsistence data on the aboriginal hunter and gatherers in the area. Studies included collection and mapping of 143,400 m2 (35.4 acres) at site 26NY1408 and excavation and mapping of 83 m2 (0.02 acres) at site 26NY7847. Field work was conducted intermittently between July 1991 and October 1992.

This report documents the procedures and findings of archaeological investigations by the Desert Research Institute for sample unit U19ax on Pahute Mesa, Nevada Test Site during the summer of 1991 . Data recovery was conducted at sites 26NY 4182, 26NY5428, 26NY7842, and 26NY7843. The investigation consisted of mapping and surf ace collection at sites 26NY 4182, 26NY7842, and 26NY7843, a subsurface scrape at site 26NY4182, and one test excavation at site 26NY5428. Four surface artifact...

The project described herein was designed to document the history and significance of this railroad, as well as to assess its physical remains. To do this, we first provide a synthesis of available literature, including historic documents such as newspaper articles, photographs, and other related records. This synthesis includes the history of the railroad, the reasons for construction and abandonment, the politics that played a role in its development, and the effects of the railroad's arrival...

Index for a series of mylar map overlays that were plotted on the current inventory of cultural resource surveys and sites known to exist on the NAFB properties. Maps not included.

Archaeological reconnaissance of a 1500' radius around drill pad U20AL. The skid trail connecting the pad to the Pahute Mesa Road, and the enlargement of an existing borrow pit.

Has duplicate NY Site, see Site book 26NY653B.

No cultural materials were observed during present survey. However, it is noteworthy that any archaeological site in this area would have been severely damaged prior to survey by off-road vehicle traffic .

Results of a Class II cultural resources reconnaissance covering 6% of approximately 362.75 square km of land in the Groom Range, Lincoln County, Nevada, in support of a land withdrawal from public access.

An archaeological reconnaissance of the 4,368 hectare NNWSI Yucca Mountain Project Area has disclosed 178 prehistoric and 6 historic cultural resources. The prehistoric archaeological sites include temporary campsites, tinajas, knapping stations, toolstone quarries, millingstations, caches, isolated artifacts and diffuse lithic scatters of unknown function. The patterning of these prehistoric sites on the landscape is interpreted to reflect at least three distinct aboriginal settlement...

Predictive site location modeling and sample survey conducted in the Kawich Range of the Central Great Basin resulted in the identification of over 200 largely pristine archaeological sites containing a diversity of features and artifacts. Identified sites range in age from the Pre-Archaic to the Ethnohistoric period. Site distribution patterns correlate well with the predictions of the model and, together with information shared by Native American participants, serve to document the extensive...

Nellis Air Force Range archaeological sites are compared with Bureau of Land Management sites in southwestern Nevada based on data collected from site records and site visits. Of 105 sample sites, 86 were evaluated based only on site forms. Nineteen sites were visited; four were examined in detail. Data showed a trend towards NAFR sites being less disturbed and in better condition. NAFR has more sites in “excellent” condition than BLM; the proportion of disturbed BLM sites is greater than NAFR...

It is hoped that with the distribution of archaeological sites recorded during the study, together with field observations and the background research, can be used to expand present knowledge of human adaptations to environmental change within the study area.

The mining industry has been labeled as economically cyclical with a historic dynamic web of human interpersonal influences contrasted against socioeconomic trends. Historians and archaeologists study regional trends to describe the macro effects human-created systems have on the landscape. Studies of towns such as Goldfield and Tonopah highlight the fact that only a few people, such as Nixon and Wingfield, could persuade tens of thousands to create cities where there was not even enough...

Cultural resources surveys of six areas on the north and south ranges of Nellis Air Force Base scheduled to be impacted by construction and/or mission related activities. Fourteen previously unrecorded archaeological sites were found during the surveys. Twelve of the sites were isolates or scatters of a few flakes and were collected. The remaining two archaeological sites are considered potentially significant sites and were recorded and mapped. One site at Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary...

The National Park Service, Western Region (NPSWR), contracted with the Social Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute (ORI), Reno, Nevada to perform cultural resources surveys of six areas north of Nellis Air Force Base for scheduled Patriot - Hawk exercises. With the exception of the Hawk South area (Nellis AFB), all the parcels are managed by the BLM. Five archaeological sites were found in the course of the survey. Four of the sites are isolated occurrences. One site is a small lithic...

Range 77 Survey, presentation with photos of sites.

The Social Sciences Center of the Desert Research Institute conducted a cultural resources inventory of several proposed radar sites and road extensions on the Nellis Air Force Range, Nye County, Nevada.

Includes Archaeological Survey Report of Leach Lake Observation Post Located at U.S. Army Fort Irwin, San Bernardino County, CA, An Archaeological Survey of Selected Target Areas of the Leach Lake Tactical Range, Fort Irwin, California, photos, and SHPO correspondence.

Conducted the archaeological survey of three proposed drill hole sites and three geologic study areas on the Nevada Test Site. These areas were surveyed for prehistoric and historic archaeological sites subject to possible direct or indirect impact. A brief description of individual survey areas, survey methodology, and archaeological sites follows.

Archaeological Survey of proposed drill hole sites on Paiute Mesa. Three proposed drill hole sites were surveyed for archaeological and historical sites subject to possible impact.

Class III survey report documenting the results of the inventory and providing recommendations on National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility for sites within the project area.

In June of 1988, Retrospect Research Associates conducted an archaeological survey of two parcels slated for development by Nellis Air Force Base. The survey areas, referred to herein as the Red Flag and Hospital parcels, are located in North Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. No archaeological sites were discovered during the course of the survey, and no impact mitigation was recommended.

The purpose of this document is to offer archaeologists a basis for understanding natural features in playa systems. Nellis Air Force Base previously commissioned a study that describes in text and photographs the geology for source materials on the NTTR and in the southern Nevada region (Dickerson 2003). Its purpose was to provide archaeologists with descriptive data to identify locations of source materials most likely used by the aboriginal inhabitants of the Great Basin. This field guide...

Archaeology of Areas II and III Nellis Air Force Base Clark County, Nevada.

Moody Dune, 26Ny4844, is a small lithic scatter situated on a low sand dune in Cactus Flat on the Tonopah Test Range, Nye County, Nevada. Surface co 11 ect ion, subsurface scrapes, and a 1x2 meter test pit yielded a total of 301 artifacts and indicate that the site is a single task locality where bifaces were made from tool stone of local origin. Moody Dune site dates to within the last 1500 years of human occupation in the area.

Environmental Solutions, Inc. conducted archival research and an intensive pedestrian survey for historic properties within the SA-5 Target project area. Encompassing 2.59 km2, the project area is situated in central Nye County along the eastern margin of Stonewall Flat, about 37 km east of the town of Goldfield, Nevada. As a result of the research, 11 historic properties were recorded. Ten of these are isolated finds of historic or prehistoric materials such as broken bottles or flake tools,...

This project took place to satisfy requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA in regard to these properties, which are scheduled for demolition by the Department of the Air Force due to modernization at both bases, and construction of new fitness facilities at Nellis AFB.

IMACS Site Forms for Area's I & II of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

Site 26Ck4984 is a prehistoric chert quarry located in Area II on Nellis Air Force Base. A detailed core analysis and debitage study, including core type, flake type, and comparisons of core facet to flake measurements was performed in order to determine if the site had been utilized by hunter-gatherer subsistence strategy. An adjunct to this project was the collection of raw material for the purpose of building a database of geochemical signatures of raw material sources.cal people or by people...

Site 26Ck4984 is a prehistoric chert quarry located in Area II on Nellis Air Force Base. A detailed core analysis and debitage study, including core type, flake type, and comparisons of core facet to flake measurements was performed in order to determine if the site had been utilized by local people or by people traveling long distances. Research results suggest that the site was used predominantly by local inhabitants, probably as an embedded activity in their hunter-gatherer subsistence...

Archaeology and Cultural Resources report about ceramics removed from federal land near Lake Mead.

Arrowhead District information document.

Scan from a book.

Arrowhead Mine Site Forms.

Overview of the Arrowhead Mining location.

Description of visit to the Arrowhead site.

Map of Arrowhead townsite.

Article on the use of camels in mining in Nevada.

Short history of Las Vegas, Nevada.

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.

This is a short review of the History of the Indian Springs Air Force Base. The material was taken from all the available records held in the Office of Base Historian, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

Combined site reports for Belted Range.

Range 77 Survey, presentation with photos of sites.

Betty at Nellis Photos.

The Black Mountain Characterization Study.

This study describes the interviews, results, and the recommendations of the Native Americans consulted for information that would assist in the protection of sacred and cultural sites.

Cultural resources report field worksheet.

Land Case N-42721 Black Mountain South (east part of Clover Range) ACMI Communications Site-USAF/Construction of a 15' x 15' solar powered communications tower (leveling and trenching) and 110' x 120' helicopter landing zone (brush-clearing only).

Boundary description for the TTR.

Article in the Nellis AFB newspaper Bullseye, highlighting conservation on site.

ln response to Contract Number NV050-CTG-1203, received from the Las Vegas District Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an intensive cultural resource inventory (surface archaeological survey) was conducted along approximately forty miles of proposed fence line construction on the northern boundary of Nellis Air Force Range.

Cedar Peak Photographs.

Correspondence regarding the potential unauthorized collection of plane crash parts.

A Chronology of Events at Las Vegas Army Air Field Las Vegas Air Force Base and Nellis Air Force Base October 1940 through September 1966.

Documentation of Chubey.

Civet Cat Canyon is a 5-mile long large drainage of the Cactus Range, located on north Pahute Mesa, Nye County, Nevada, on the Nevada Test and Training Range managed by Nellis Air Force Base. The Civet Cat Canyon road has become an integral passageway for personnel assigned to mission-related field work. At the intersection of Ranges 71 and 76, the canyon narrows to a view of a prehistoric and historic archaeological site that utilized the volcanic basalt canyon walls in an atypical process,...

IMACS Site Forms for the Clark sites at the Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

The U.S. Air Force proposes to place a buried fiber optic line between the P-9 and P-10 facilities on the Nellis Air Force Range, Nye County, Nevada. The general location of the project is presented in Figure 1. The proposed route of the )ine is 1.24 km (0.77 miles) long, and was inspected for cultural resources by two parallel transects spaced 15 m (50 ft) apart. No cultural resources were found during the reconnaissance. The project will have no effect on known historic properties provided all...

The US Air Force proposes to construct a substation target, an electronic grid target, and a tracker station on the Nellis Air Force Range (Figures 1 and 2). The areas proposed for the placement of these facilities, including an alternate location for the tracker station, were inspected for cultural resources by pedestrian transects spaced 30 m (100 ft) apart. Access to the facilities, except for the alternate location for the tracker station, will be along existing roads that will not need to...

The areas proposed for the placement of these facilities were inspected for cultural resources by pedestrian transects covering a 30 m (98 ft) interval. No cultural resources were found at along the route to the Gold Mountain facility.

The U.S. Air Force proposes to conduct training exercises in the P-38 project area, Tonopah Test Range, Nye County. These training exercises will not require construction that disturbs the ground surface; access will be by existing roads. The P-38 area was inspected for cultural resources by parallel, pedestrian transects spaced about 30 m (100 ft) apart. The cultural resources reconnaissance found two isolated artifacts, 072795HD01 and 072795HD03, one small knapping station, site 26NY9297, and...

The U.S. Air Force proposes to construct an electronic system (P-51) atop Cedar Peak in the Kawich Range on Nellis Range 4807, Nye County, Nevada (Figure 1). Construction will involve the removal of an existing facility, additional leveling of the area now occupied by that facility, the pouring of concrete slabs, the construction of a tower and building on those pads, and the installation of utility lines. Although over 90 percent of the area proposed for this facility has already been disturbed...

This monograph describes a Class II cultural resources reconnaissance of a 9.75 km2 land parcel in Area 20 of the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada. The Social Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, examined a 30% sample of this sagebrush and juniper covered area on Pahute Mesa in order to identify a representative sample of the cultural and archaeological resources there. This information was then used to develop alternative strategies through which the U.S. Department of Energy might...

This report describes the cultural resource inventory for two applications involving a total of 3,120 acres in North Las Vegas. Due to the close proximity of the two project areas to one another, the combined acreage was treated as one project for cultural resource purposes. Application N-46070 (880 acres) was filed by the City of North Las Vegas for a proposed flood control detention basin. Application N-43395 (2,240 acres) was filed by the Nevada Military Department for a proposed National...

Includes site forms, crit response, and photos.

The NAFB Range Wing has proposed training that requires clearance for a maneuver area within Range 71 North on the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) Nye County, Nevada. The area of potential effects (APE) encompasses 3,621 acres of land within the Ralston Valley, extending south from Mud Lake.

Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) has proposed construction of a borrow pit and associated infrastructure elements within Range 61 (R61) on Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), Lincoln County, Nevada. Associated elements will include two access roads and two staging areas. This report presents the results of the Class III archaeological inventory that was conducted prior to construction of the proposed project. Within the proposed project area, no prehistoric lithic scatters were present, but...

Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) has proposed to construct training and maneuver areas within the Range 71 North(R71 N), located in the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) Nye County, Nevada. The concept for the Range 71 Desert Training Operations Area is to integrate current existing target arrays and road infrastructure with three new target areas in addition to the construction of a ground water well site. Figure 1 shows the location of three new target pads, a new 19,508 foot (ft) road, and...

The PA implements the Long Range Study Plan (LRSP), in which an 11 % sample of the NTS wIII be investigated for cultural resources. In accordance with this sampling strategy, sample unit U19ax (Figure 1 & 2) was surveyed by the Desert Research Institute (DRI) for archaeological properties. The U19ax sample unit is an area of 914 m by 579 m (3000 ft x 1900 ft). However, a large part of the sample unit was previous surveyed under the U19an and U19ba projects. Therefore, this U19ax sample unit...

The Desert Research Institute (DRI) was requested by the Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office (DOE/NV) to conduct a cultural resources reconnaissance of the proposed underground test area (UGTA) subproject well 1 pad, borrow pit and access road on the Nellis Air Force Range (NAFR) EC South. The DOE/NV through its UGTA project, is proposing to conduct a well drilling campaign to characterize the area between western Pahute Mesa and Oasis Valley. The data acquired will assist the DOE/NV...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has proposed to develop a 2.92 km2 area on the east side of the Antelope Lake playa in Cactus Flat on the Tonopah Test Range, Nevada. Additionally, two small areas in low hills to the east are proposed as camera station locations.

As a result of the survey two new cultural resource sites (26LN5341 and 26LN5342) and nine isolated occurrences were identified and recorded. Site 26LN5341 is recommended eligible to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under criterion (d). Because 26LN5341 was found to be located at ADA 112G, an alternate site (ADA 112G Alternate) was selected and inventoried to avoid or lessen adverse impacts to the cultural resource. Site 26LN5342 is not recommended eligible for the NRHP. HRC...

The Air Force is conducting its semi-annual maintenance on ranges 75 and 76. This maintenance includes, among other things, the construction of 38 new targets in areas previously undisturbed (see Maps 1-4). These targets usually are composed of dummy vehicles and tanks constructed of plywood. Access to the target is generally cross country; no roads are built.

Sandia National Laboratories requested an archaeological reconnaissance from the Desert Research Institute (DRI) to survey five areas on the Tonopah Test Range. These areas consist of a small add on to the FULL CLIP Extension, the FULL CLIP Borrow Pit and access road, and Contraves 49S and Contraves 49N (Figures 1-4). Site 26NY7638 (Figure 2) was located on the access road; this site is comprised of an isolated chert flake and has been fully recorded. No further archaeological work is necessary...

The expansion of these aggregate pits will be gradual and when completed will involve considerable area (160 hectares). The purpose of this reconnaissance was to inspect enough of the proposed expansion area to insure adequate supplies of aggregate are available for several years of construction.

The Department of Energy (DOE) requested that the Desert Research Institute (DRI) conduct cultural resource reconnaissance on two proposed Radiological Environmental Monitoring Stations (REMS) in the Yucca Mountain Project area (Figure 1). No cultural resources were identified in the project areas.

A cultural resources inventory of a 1500-ft long by 50-ft wide corridor (1.7 acres) was conducted in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The project consists of replacing the existing fiber optic line in the project corridor, with disturbance confined to the area previously disturbed. No historic properties were found.

The archaeologists found site 26NY13154, a special purpose site, that is eligible to the National Register or Historic Places (NRHP) (Figure 3). DRl recommends that a new location be chosen for the well pad and access road and that site 26NY13154 be avoided by all construction activities. If the new location is near site 26NY13154, DRl recommends monitoring after all construction activities are completed. lf a new location can not be found and avoidance of the site is not possible, data recovery...

The Desert Research Institute (DRI) received a request from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office (NNSA/NSO) to conduct a Class III cultural resources inventory of the proposed Underground Test Area EREC- 13 Well Pad and Access Road, Range EC South, Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), Nye County, Nevada (Figures 1-2). On August 11 and 12, 2009, DRI archaeologists surveyed the proposed well pad and access road and found site 26NY13697,...

The Desert Research Institute (DRI) received a request from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office (NNSA/NSO) to conduct a Class III cultural resources inventory of the proposed Underground Test Area EREC- 14 Well Pad and Access Road, Range EC South, Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), Nye County, Nevada (Figures 1-2). On August 10 and 12, 2009, DRI archaeologists surveyed the proposed well pad and access road and found two sites and...

The Desert Research Institute (DRI) received a request from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office (NNSA/NSO) to conduct a Class III cultural resources inventory of the proposed Underground Test Area EREC- 15 Well Pad and Access Road, Range EC South, Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), Nye County, Nevada (Figures 1-2). On November 16, 2009, DRI archaeologists and the American Indian Coordinator surveyed the proposed well pad and access...