Where You Least Expect It: A Preliminary Report on Excavations at 26EK16689

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Site 26EK16689 is a multiple component open archaeological site near West Wendover, Nevada, approximately three miles from Danger Cave. Despite a history of inundation, ground disturbance, and generally rough treatment, excavations have shown that site 26EK16689 preserves extensive and intact cultural deposits with good organic preservation. In addition, diagnostic artifacts and radiocarbon dates provide evidence of repeated use beginning at least during the Early Archaic and continuing until the Late Precontact period. In this paper, we discuss the geologic setting and context of the site and provide some preliminary results from our ongoing analysis. We also touch on the importance of this open site for providing a dataset to further contextualize the findings from the several well-known caves and rockshelters nearby.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36274.0