Tufa Village (Nevada)
Subtitle: placing the Fort Sage Drift Fence in a larger archaeological context
By: D. Craig Young and William Hildebrandt, Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc
Contributors: Hildebrandt, William R., author; Far Western Anthropological Research Group
Series: Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History -- number 102; Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History -- no. 102.
Publisher: American Museum of Natural History
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9780985201678
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Paleo-Indians; Indians of North America; Antiquities; Hunting; Prehistoric Land settlement patterns; Excavations (Archaeology); Prehistoric Antiquities
Other titles: Placing the Fort Sage Drift Fence in a larger archaeological context; Tufa Village
Description: "The Fort Sage Drift Fence is one of the largest pre-Contact rock features known in the Great Basin, and appears to date between 3700 and 1000 cal B.P. When Pendleton and Thomas (1983) first recorded the 2 km long complex, they were impressed by its sheer size and the amount of labor required to build it. This led them to hypothesize that it must have been constructed, maintained, and used by specialized groups associated with a centralized, village-based settlement system--a system that was not recognized in the archaeological record at that time. Their hypothesis turned out to be quite insightful, as subsequent analyses of faunal remains and settlement pattern data have documented the rise of logistical hunting organization linked to higher levels of settlement stability between about 4500 and 1000 cal B.P. throughout much of the Great Basin. Although Pendleton and Thomas' (1983) proposal has been borne out on a general, interregional level, it has never been evaluated with local archaeological data. This monograph remedies this situation through reporting the excavation findings from a nearby, contemporaneous house-pit village site. These findings allow us to place the drift fence within its larger settlement context, and provide additional archaeological support for the original Pendleton-Thomas hypothesis"--Page 5.
Notes: "June 16, 2017."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-63).

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