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Gatecliff Rockshelter (26NY301) is a major archaeological site in the Great Basin area of the western United States that provides remarkable stratigraphy; it has been called the "deepest archaeological rock shelter in the Americas". [2]
The Ancestral Puebloans lived and travelled the Four Corners area of the Southwestern United States from 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1300. Ancestral Puebloan peoples did not permanently live in the Manitou Springs area, but lived and built their cliff dwellings in the Four Corners area and across the Northern Rio Grande, several hundred miles southwest of Manitou Springs.
This list of museums in Nevada encompasses museums which are defined for this context as physical institutions, (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Nevada, in the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The site is currently an underwater conservation area. [1] Archeologist W. Geoffrey Spaulding discovered yucca remains and macrofossils of piñon nuts (Pinus monophylla) at the site in pack rat waste that date between 1990–5210 BP. [2]
Discovered in 1936, this is an archaeological site that shows settlement from 6700 BC up to 1400 AD. 5: McKeen Motor Car #70 (Virginia & Truckee Railway Motor Car #22) McKeen Motor Car #70 (Virginia & Truckee Railway Motor Car #22) October 16, 2012 [5] Carson City
The Lost City Museum shares its location with an actual prehistoric site of the Ancestral Puebloans.The museum was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935 and was operated by the National Park Service to exhibit artifacts from the Pueblo Grande de Nevada archaeological sites, which were going to be partially covered by the waters of Lake Mead as a result of building the Hoover Dam.
Habitation occurred at the same time at other local sites like Tule Springs, Lake Mojave and the Pinto Basin. [ 7 ] The skull of the ground sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis Sinclair was found in Room 3 by the archaeologist Bertha Parker , who was Harrington's niece and served as expedition secretary. [ 8 ]