Cultural Resource Overview of the Eureka, Saline, Panamint, and Darwin Region; East Central California

Author(s): Richard H. Norwood; Charles S. Bull; Ronald Quinn; Emma Lou Davis; Ronald Quinn

Year: 1980

Summary

In September 1977 the Bureau of Land Management contracted with Regional Environmental Consultants (RECON) for the completion of a Class I cultural resource inventory for the Darwin, Eureka, Saline, and Panamint Planning Units within the California desert. The purpose of this project was to evaluate the existing information available about the cultural record of the area.

The project was conducted for several reasons, including legal requirements of the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management: the need for detailed information for incorporation of cultural information into the planning process: and the accumulation of a previously highly scattered body of information into one manageable element.

Cultural resources are defined as fragile and nonrenewable evidences of human activity, occupation, and endeavor as reflected in districts, sites, structures, artifacts, objects, ruins, works of art, architecture, and natural features that were of importance in human events. While cultural resources are further categorized as having prehistoric or historic values, each of these aspects represents part of a continuum of events from the earliest evidences of human activity to the present time.

This project is part of a comprehensive study of the cultural resources of the Darwin, Eureka, Panamint and Saline Planning Units, California, which is being performed by the Bureau of Land Management's Desert Planning Staff. The data will be used for Environmental Analysis Records, Environmental Statements, Unit Resource Analyses, Management Fieldwork Plans, and other BLM projects.

Originally the information in this record was migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. In 2014, as part of its effort to improve tDAR content, the Center for Digital Antiquity uploaded a copy of the document and further improved the record metadata.

Cite this Record

Cultural Resource Overview of the Eureka, Saline, Panamint, and Darwin Region; East Central California. Richard H. Norwood, Charles S. Bull, Ronald Quinn, Emma Lou Davis, Ronald Quinn. Cultural Resources Publications: Anthropology - History. Riverside, California: Bureau of Land Management. 1980 ( tDAR id: 121571) ; doi:10.6067/XCV89K4C6H

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Keywords

Culture
Kawaiisu • Northern Paiute • Shoshone

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Ground Stone

Site Type
Artifact Scatter • Cairn • Cemetery • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Milling Feature • Petroglyph • Pictograph • Quarry

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Environment Research • Ethnographic Research • Ethnohistoric Research • Heritage Management • Reconnaissance / Survey • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Systematic Survey

General
Class I cultural resource inventory • Environmental Setting • General regional reconstruction • Historic Overview • Hokan Language Family • Lithic Scatter • Mining • Obsidian Trade • Overview • Penutian Language Family • Present language configuration • Projectile Point • Sensative temporal artifacts • Uto-Aztecan Language Family

Geographic Keywords
06027 (Fips Code) • California (State / Territory) • Eureka / Deep Springs / Saline Valley • Eureka Valley • Inyo (County) • Little Lake / Coso Region • Mono Lake • North America (Continent) • Panamint Basin • Panamint Mountains • Panamint Valley • Saline Valley • United States of America (Country)

Temporal Keywords
Amargosan • Lake Mojave Period • Malpais • Pinto Basin • Pinto-Gypsum • Playa • Playa I • Playa II • San Dieguito I • San Dieguito II • San Dieguito III • Tule Springs period • Yuman

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: -13000 to 1980

Spatial Coverage

min long: -118.216; min lat: 35.7 ; max long: -117.099; max lat: 37.635 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Sponsor(s): Bureau of Land Management, Desert Planning Staff, Riverside, California

Prepared By(s): Regional Environmental Consultants, San Diego

Submitted To(s): Bureau of Land Management, Desert Planning Staff, Riverside, California

Record Identifiers

NADB document id number(s): 1043475; 1040093; 1081749; 1043476

NADB citation id number(s): 000000021549; 000000012552; 000000014886; 000000014885

Contract No.(s): YA-512-CT7-226

Notes

General Note: Sent from: Regional Environmental Consultants, San Diego

General Note: Submitted to: Bureau of Land Management, Riverside

General Note: Contract number: YA-512-CT7-226

General Note: Originally this record was automatically added to tDAR from NADB. In 2014, a copy of the document was added and the record metadata was updated. There were multiple records (tDAR id: 196916, 190806, 196915) for this document, which have been marked as "duplicate".

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