The Dated Paleoindian Archaeology of the Old River Bed Delta

Summary

The Old River Bed delta is a premier open-air Paleoindian locality in the eastern Great Basin. Its chief distinction is scale—some 2,000 square kilometers-plus of nearly continuous and single-component archaeological material on what would have been the largest basin wetland in the region. But the record is largely surficial. In this poster, we detail a series of sites that have yielded temporal data from buried cultural contexts. The sites help clarify the broader associations of artifact types and shifting hydrology that have thus far defined the limits for examining change through time on the delta. These refinements have implications for our understanding of Paleoindian land use and technology throughout the region, and what life was like in Great Basin wetlands.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20843