Prehistory of Nevada's Northern Tier
Subtitle: archaeological investigations along the Ruby Pipeline
By: William Hildebrandt, Kelly McGuire, Jerome King, Allika Ruby, and D. Craig Young, Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc. ; with contributions by David Rhode, Jeffrey Rosenthal, Pat Barker, Kaely Colligan, William Bloomer, Albert Garner, Nathan Stevens, Andrew Ugan, Kimberley Carpenter, Laura Brink, Sharon Waechter, Richard Hughes, Tom Origer, Sharlyn Street, and Wendy Pierce
Series: Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History -- number 101; Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History -- no. 101
Publisher: American Museum of Natural History
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780985201654
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Paleo-Indians; Land settlement patterns; Shoshoni Indians; Antiquities; Northern Paiute Indians; Numic Indians; Migrations; Indians of North America; Excavations (Archaeology); Prehistoric Antiquities
Other titles: Archaeological investigations along the Ruby Pipeline
Description: The Ruby Pipeline originates in Opal, Wyoming, travels westward across Utah and Nevada, and terminates in Malin, Oregon. Almost 360 miles of the line is in Nevada, where it crosses through some of the most remote, sparsely populated land in the lower 48 states. Despite the remote nature of this corridor, it has produced a rich archaeological record reflecting a dynamic history of land-use pattern changes over a period of at least 13,000 years. Archaeological excavations were conducted at 578 prehistoric sites prior to construction of the pipeline. The sites were distributed across four ecological regions, including (from west to east): the High Rock Country, Upper Lahontan Basin, Upper Humboldt Plains, and Thousand Springs Valley. First evidence of human occupation dates to the Paleoindian (14,500-12,800 cal b.p.) and Paleoarchaic (12,800-7800 cal b.p.) periods, when people spent most of their time in the High Rock Country where important economic resources reached their highest dene in northern Nevada /
Notes: "Issued March 11, 2016."

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Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- William Hildebrandt; title: Natural setting of the Northern Tier.; title: The geomorphic setting of the Northern Tier  -- D. Craig Young ;; title: Modern climate ;; title: Vegetation ;; title: Economic plants and animals ;; title: Paleoenvironments of the Northern Tier  -- David Rhode; title: Cultural context of the Northern Tier.; title: Prehistoric background  -- Kelly McGuire and William Hildebrandt ;; title: Ethnographic background  -- Pat Barker; title: Field and analytical methods  -- Jerome King; title: Chronological controls  -- Jerome King; title: High Rock Country summary of findings  -- Allika Ruby; title: Upper Lahontan Basin summary of findings  -- Kelly McGuire; title: Upper Humboldt Plains summary of findings  -- Kelly McGuire; title: Thousand Springs Valley summary of findings  -- Albert Garner; title: Colonization of northern Nevada  -- William Hildebrandt and Allika Ruby; title: Flaked stone production patterns  -- William Hildebrandt, Kaely Colligan, and William Bloomer; title: Trans-Holocene subsistence-settlement change in northern Nevada  -- Kelly McGuire, Andrew Ugan, Kimberley Carpenter, and Laura Brinz; title: The archaeological correlates and evolution of geophyte procurement in the northwestern Great Basin  -- Kelly McGuire and Nathan Stevens; title: Obsidian conveyance patterns  -- Jerome King; title: Northern Paiute, Western Shoshone, and the Numic expansion  -- William Hildebrandt; title: Numic use of wooden pronghorn enclosures  -- Allika Ruby; title: Summary and conclusions -- William Hildebrandt.