Prehistoric and Historic Research Along the Navajo-McCullough Transmission Line Right-of-Way
Creators: name: Brooks, Richard H.
name: Larson, Daniel O.
Publisher: name: Nevada Archaeological Survey
Year: 1975
Subjects: Clark (County)
32999 (Fips Code)
United States of America (Country)
32003 (Fips Code)
Nevada (State / Territory)
Lincoln (County)
North America (Continent)
All Counties (County)
32017 (Fips Code)
Historic
Prehistoric
26 CK 1123
Arrow Cane Site
26 CK 1164
26 CK 1086
Shelf Site
26 CK 1081
Tranquility Site
26 CK 1082
26 CK 1144
Rattlesnake Site
26 CK 1167
26 CK 1112
The Windy Site
26 CK 1113
26 CK 1143
26 CK 1142
26 CK 1098
The Basic Site
Domestic Structures
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
Archaeological Feature
Pit
Artifact Scatter
Quarry
Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno
Trash Scatter
Isolated Artifact
Rock Shelter
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Ceramic
Chipped Stone
Fauna
Ground Stone
Northern Sidenotched Points
Lithic Scatter
Basketry
Cottonwood Triangular Points
Rock Circle
Humbolt Point
Arrowcane
Lithic and Ceramic Analysis
Transmission Line
Project Number 5-167(P)
Elko Eared Points
Prehistory
Significance / Management
Cultural Chronology
Projectile Points
Eastgate Points
Isolates
Rose Springs Point
Central Arizona Project
Incised Stone
Navajo-McCullough Line
Desert Side Notched Points
Lithic Analysis
Rockshelters
Elko Cornernotched
Pinto Point
Cottonwood Points
Desert Sidenotch Point
Bureau of Reclamation
Roasting Pit
Depressions
Data Recovery / Excavation
Reconnaissance / Survey
Site Evaluation / Testing

description: The Los Angeles Water and Power Company Navajo-McCullough Transmission Line Right-of-Way corridor is located for the most part in Clark County, Nevada, but also diagonals across the southeast corner of Lincoln County, Nevada. The total length of the corridor in Nevada is over 100 miles long and the archaeological survey was conducted within a 50 meter distance to either side of the center line. Access roads added to the distance that was intensively surveyed. Where it was observed that there was a possibility of indirect impact on sites visible from the corridor or access roads, these areas were included as a part of the overall survey. The approach utilized to determine the degree of destructive impact on historic and prehistoric sites along the Right-of-Way corridor of the Navajo-McCullough Transmission Line was environmentally oriented. The Right-of-Way corridor cuts through a basin range region of relative aridity with rapid biotic community shifts related to microenvironmental conditions and altitudinal changes. In some sections of the corridor there are springs and flowing water which alter and affect the biota. The archaeological reconnaissance coordinated the multiple factors of local geology, geography, flora and fauna to interpret either the scarcity or clustering of prehistoric sites along the Right-of-Way corridor, in an attempt to predict patterns of aboriginal occupation. The significance of archaeological sites in this region is related to their geographical setting. Aboriginal useage of the environment was such that certain kinds of sites are only found in specific geological or geographical locations. Seasonality is an additional factor that is implicit in the environmental orientation as some site areas ideally would only be occupied during a particular time of year. The archaeological survey and excavation of sites along the Navajo-McCullough Transmission Line Right-of-Way has provided a means of transecting this portion of the state of Nevada. Ordinarily archaeological areas in Southern Nevada are assumed to be concentrated by springs, around playas or along river banks where site potential might be expected. In the case where a direct power line survey cuts across many and various types of terrain, some of which may have been utilized prehistorically, this presents an opportunity to explore new avenues of aboriginal use patterns. The power line survey in its transect encountered area of aboriginal use and concentration that resulted in a broader archaeological interpretation of aboriginal environmental relationships. No previous archaeological research had been conducted in the larger portion of the Transmission Line Corridor, except for the Gypsum Cave area and certain locales in the Muddy River drainage. With the exception of these two areas there is no direct archaeological publication concerned with the terrain crossed by the Right-of-Way corridor.