Tiptoe the Steptoe: A Report on and Examination of Survey Results from Steptoe Valley and the Schell Creek Range of East-Central Nevada

Summary

This poster reports on results from 25,745 contiguous acres of pedestrian survey in southern Steptoe Valley and the Schell Creek Range of east-central Nevada. An extensive Class III cultural resource inventory conducted in 2014 and 2015 by EnviroSystems Management, Inc., resulted in the recordation of 285 new sites, seven previously documented sites, and 386 isolated artifacts/features. These resources span the entirety of human occupation in the Great Basin. Sites include Paleoindian, Archaic, Late Prehistoric, Fremont, Numic, Protohistoric, and Historic Period artifact scatters. Features observed include pine nut caches, rock foundations, a wikiup, historic corrals, cabins/dugouts, and newly identified areas of historic charcoal production. Additionally, this poster provides an analysis of diachronic shifts in spatial distribution of prehistoric cultural resources, as well as highlights noteworthy aspects of other documented archaeological resources.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

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