Great Basin National Park, Nevada

Test excavations undertaken to determine the archeological significance of six sites in Great Basin National Park are reported here. Planned development outlined in the General Management Plan may impact one or more of these sites. Four of the sites are in the Baker Guard Station parcel adjacent to the town of Baker and two are in Lehman Flats, an area adjacent to Lehman Creek and north of the park entrance road. Test units and backhoe trenches disturbed less than 2 percent of any site's...

This overview provides a discussion and summary of the archeology and cultural resources of the newly formed Great Basin National Park in east-central Nevada. The Overview has been prepared following the guidelines outlined in NPS-28 and in concordance with previously prepared archaeological overviews for other Western Region parks. Although a great deal is known of the culture history of the Great Basin, very little research has been conducted in the southern Snake Range. Most of what has...

Archeological survey and site assessment at Great Basin National Park were conducted in June and July of 1989 by archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center. Developed and proposed development areas totalling 780 acres were systematically surveyed and 11 prehistoric archeological sites were recorded in the alluvial fan that extends from the park entrance to Lower Lehman Campground. Thirteen previously known prehistoric sites and one newly discovered site were recorded at...

Archeological survey and site assessment were conducted in Great Basin National Park between May 20 and July 8 of 1998 and between June 3 and July 7 of 1999 by archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center. Surveyed areas included sites of proposed undertakings, backcountry campsites and trails, known sites that lacked archeological documentation, features associated with the Lehman Caves National Monument era, and parcels of land along Snake Creek Canyon and Baker Creek....

Archeological data recovery was conducted at site 26WP2016, one of four previously recorded sites in the Baker Guard Station parcel, Great Basin National Park, in support of a proposed visitor center and parking lot. The results of the project suggest that the function of site 26WP2016 was similar during each of its prehistoric occupations: Great Basin Desert Archaic, Parowan Fremont and Western Shoshone. The site was an open, intermittently occupied campsite that served as the base for the...

WACC report with an archaeological overview of Great Basin National Park.