A gabled wooden lodge in an archaeological context: Archaeological investigations at sample unit U19adPL, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

Technical Report · Tue Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:10151045

DuBarton, A; Drollinger, H; Edwards, S; Hemphill, M; Hockett, B S; Johnson, W G; King, C; Beck, C M; Pippin, L C

In 1991 the Quaternary Sciences Center at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) conducted archaeological investigations at sample unit U19adPL on Pahute Mesa at the request of the Department of Energy, Nevada Field Office. This work was conducted under the Long Range Study Plan, a data recovery program designed to intensively study an 11 percent geographic sample of the cultural resources on Pahute and Rainier mesas. The focus of the research was site 26NY3393. This site consists of a gabled wooden lodge with a hearth, a rock ring, and a dim use artifacts scatter of ceramics, lithic tools, and lithic debitage. The structure is the only gabled log structure known on Pahute and Rainier mesas, and associated artifacts included shell and glass beads. Based on temporally diagnostic artifacts, the occupation of site 26NY3393 spans 8000 years. There is no evidence that the site was occupied continuously for any great length of time. It is more likely that Native Americans inhabited the area intermittently on a seasonal basis. The gabled wooden lodge is a late construction, probably dating between A.D. 1760 and 1865. This report documents and presents the results of the archaeological work at sample unit U19adPL.

• Research Organization: Nevada Univ., Reno, NV (United States). Quaternary Sciences Center
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC08-90NV10845
• OSTI ID: 10151045
• Report Number(s): DOE/NV/10845--T8; ON: DE93013965; IN: QSC-81
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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