An Archaeological Study of the Anomalous Sites aong Southern Nevada’s California Wash

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This poster aims to provide a comparative study using the ceramics at three prehistoric sites along southern Nevada’s California Wash. Several surveys, text excavations, and some full excavations were undertaken ahead of the proposed Navajo-McCullough Transmission Line Right-of-Way located in Clark County, Nevada. Typically archaeological sites in southern Nevada are clustered around perennial springs, playas, or rivers. The California Wash, however, has none of these. Thus, the presence of prehistoric sites over what appears to be long occupations and different cultural groups including the Virgin Branch of the Ancestral Puebloans, Patayan, and Southern Paiute was unexpected. The intent of this study is to answer questions of site density and site function in order to better understand why and how prehistoric peoples inhabited the area.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25333