A Prehistoric Context for Southern Nevada

Editor(s): Heidi Roberts

Year: 2012

Summary

In 2010 the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), Lower Colorado Region, obtained funding through the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA) as a Southern Nevada Agency Partnership sponsored project to synthesize these new data and update Margaret Lyneis’ prehistoric context. Toward this goal, HRA Inc., Conservation Archaeology was selected by Reclamation to incorporate the new archaeological data and update the Prehistoric Context for Federal land managers, et al., to use for helping comply with the National Historic Preservation Act and other historic preservation laws/regulations.

Cite this Record

A Prehistoric Context for Southern Nevada. Heidi Roberts. 2012 ( tDAR id: 472109) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8472109

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • Archaic • PaleoIndian

Material
Basketry • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Macrobotanical

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Non-Domestic Structures • Rock Art

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview

Geographic Keywords
Far Western Pueblo region • Patayan • Southern Nevada • Southern Paiute Territory

Temporal Keywords
Archaic • Formative • Post-Formative • Protohistoric

Temporal Coverage

Radiocarbon Date: 8000 to 1776

Spatial Coverage

min long: -116.865; min lat: 34.979 ; max long: -113.643; max lat: 37.669 ;

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This document is a prehistoric context for southern Nevada it contains summaries of previous research, culture histories for the region, and research questions as part of the historic context.