Nellis AFB - Archaeological Reports

Part of: Nellis Air Force Base Cultural Resources Archive

Site Name Keywords
Area II • 26NY15170 • 26NY15171 • 26NY369 • 26NY2252 • 26LN210 • 26LN4232

Site Type Keywords
Rock Art • Petroglyph • Pictograph • Lithic Scatter • Rock Ring

Other Keywords
Cultural Resource Inventory • National Register of Historic Places • NRHP • Sonic Boom • Military Munitions Response Program • Hill AFB

Culture Keywords
Southern Paiute • Western Shoshone

Investigation Types
Records Search / Inventory Checking • Historic Background Research • Reconnaissance / Survey • Site Evaluation / Testing • Architectural Documentation

Material Types
Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Lithic • Paint

Temporal Keywords
Prehistoric • Gypsum Period • Historic • Pinto Period • Lake Mojave Period • Saratoga springs Period • Numic Period

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

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A Cultural Resource and Geological Study Pertaining to Four Selected Petroglyph/Pictograph Sites on Nellis Air Force Range and Adjacent Overflight Lands, Lincoln and Nye Counties, Nevada (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William G. White. Richard L. Orndorff.
This study documents comparative results of four petroglyph and/or pictograph sites: two on Nellis Air Force Range and two on adjacent Nellis AFR aircraft overflight lands administered by the BLM. A fifth cultural resources site, situated east of Beatty, Nevada, was studies as a control site for the sonic boom aspect of the study. Work focused on determining aircraft sonic boom effects on rock formations containing petroglyphs/pictographs and contrasting the two differing land management...
Historical Archaeological Overview of Nellis Air Force Base Area 2 (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard R. Stockton.
The report presents the results of a cultural resources investigation of Nellis AFB Area 2. The survey that was conducted in May and June of 1993 by Environmental Solutions Inc. identified a range of historic artifacts and features that can serve as the basis for defining a pattern of historic utilization in isolated portions of the Las Vegas Valley and possibly in other desert areas. The field work recorded historic resources that serve as a compliment to written sources.
Letter Report - Results of Archaeological and Native American Monitoring in Support of Southwest Gas Corporation’s Natural Gas Pipeline Replacement Project 2017 GIR / VSP Eastline, Project B, Area II, Nellis Air Force Base (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Diane L. Winslow.
Letter Report - Results of archaeological and Native American monitoring in support of Southwest Gas Corporation’s natural gas pipeline replacement project 2017 GIR / VSP Eastline, Project B, Area II, Nellis Air Force Base
Military Munitions Response Program Surface Clearance Cultural Resources Monitoring Plan Utah Test and Training Range AL501 Munitions Response Area (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jim deVos
Monitoring Plan for the Hill Air Force Base (HIII AFB) Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) which conducted a surface clearance to address Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC; unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, munitions constituents, and metallic munitions debris) that pose a threat to life and property at the Utah Test and Training Range, Elko County, Nevada.
Phase I Cultural Resource Inventory for Proposed Cedar Peak Wildland Fire Management Project, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada Test And Training Range, Nye County, Nevada (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Diane L. Winslow. Rebecca Halbmaier.
The United States Air Force, 99th Civil Engineering Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB), Nevada is proposing fuels reduction for Cedar Peak located on the north range of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). The protection of Cedar Peak from the effects of a wildland fire will require the clear cutting of the pinyon and juniper trees within an approximate 300-foot radius around the peak (approximately 30 acres), and an additional 900-foot radius around the clear cut area (approximately...