High-Elevation Hunting Complexes in the Wilson Creek Range, Southern Nevada

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Large-scale prehistoric hunting complexes are well known from the Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, and other high montane regions in western North America. Here I describe a set of large-scale hunting drive complexes from the Wilson Creek Range in southeastern Nevada. Lineaments of stone piles, cairns, and blinds, some more than a kilometer long, were constructed along the rims of montane tablelands at and above treeline. Associated chronometric indicators suggest that construction and use of these hunting complexes was initiated during the latest Paleoarchaic to Early Archaic and peaked in usage during the middle Archaic. The Wilson Creek Range high-elevation hunting complex system is considered in light of prehistoric hunting complexes in the Great Basin and elsewhere in the montane West.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 50831