Settlement and the environment in the northwestern Great Basin

Author(s): Eva Hulse; John L. Fagan; Jason Cowan

Year: 2016

Summary

The Holocene in the northwest Great Basin is characterized by episodes of severe drought punctuated by abundant rainfall. Prehistoric people settled widely across the area against this variable ecological backdrop. Excavations for the Ruby Pipeline project have produced a wealth of data on prehistoric settlement patterns and chronologies in the northwestern Great Basin. In this paper, multiple lines of evidence are used to reconstruct chronologies of occupation that have been obscured by post-depositional erosion and bioturbation.

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Settlement and the environment in the northwestern Great Basin. Eva Hulse, John L. Fagan, Jason Cowan. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 405402)

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min long: -122.761; min lat: 29.917 ; max long: -109.27; max lat: 42.553 ;