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The Spirit Cave mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America. [1] [2] [3] It was discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave, [4] 13 miles (21 km) east [5] of Fallon, Nevada, United States, by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.
A small rock shelter on Grimes Point was discovered in 1939 by guano-miners; Georgia Wheeler recorded the site as 1-1C (Cave no. 16) and named it Grimes Burial Shelter. The location is to the east of Fallon, Nevada, and just to the south of the Spirit Cave, where the Spirit Cave mummy was recovered. [3]
Archeological evidence places the earliest residents of Nevada as living here about 10,000 years ago. In 1994, the Nevada State Museum carbon-dated remains which were unearthed in 1940 near Fallon. According to modern science, the burial remains of the Spirit Cave mummy prove that he lived in the area more than 9,400 years ago. [2]
Spirit Cave may refer to these archaeological sites: Spirit Cave, a cave in Nevada, U.S., known for the discovery of the Spirit Cave mummy Spirit Cave (Thailand) , a cave in Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand, occupied by hunter-foragers of the Hoabinhian culture
Pages in category "Native American history of Nevada" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. ... Spirit Cave mummy; Stewart Indian School ...
Winnemucca Lake is a dry lake bed in northwest Nevada that features the oldest known petroglyphs in North America. Located astride the border between Washoe and Pershing counties, [1] it was a shallow lake until the 1930s, but was dried when a dam and a road were built that combined to restrict and block water flow. It was formerly designated ...
Earliest known mummified body, the Spirit Cave mummy in Nevada. Neolithic Revolution (agriculture begins, domestication of animals). Earliest layers of Jericho. Urfa Man, earliest naturalistic life-sized sculpture of a human, in Upper Mesopotamia. Domestication and agriculture allow humans to live in one place – civilization. 11–9 ka: 9000 ...
[5] [6] It is named for Avi Kwa Ame, also known as Spirit Mountain, which is visible from most of the monument and is considered sacred as the site of creation by the Yuman tribes. [7] Most of the monument is managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Conservation Lands , and the National Park Service manages the portion ...