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Title: Prehistoric spatial patterning and subsistence studies: Archaeological investigations at Sample Unit U19arP4, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:10157852

This report documents the methods and results of archaeological investigations at Sample Unit U19arP4 on Pahute Mesa at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Eight sites were located there: four lithic artifact scatters (26NY1370, 26NY1372, 26NY3666 and 26NY3667), two temporary camps (26NY3665 and 26NY5418), one artifact locality (26NY5419), and one quarry (26NY3664). One of the lithic scatters, 26NY3667, incorporated a previously recorded rock ring, 26NY1371, that could not be relocated during subsequent investigations. Surface artifacts were collected from all but two of the sites, 26NY1370 and 26NY1372. The data retrieved from these investigations include over one thousand artifacts, such as projectile points, bifaces, debitage, groundstone, and pottery. The temporally diagnostic materials indicate periodic use of Sample Unit U19arP4 from the Middle Archaic to the Shoshonean period.

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:
10157852
Report Number(s):
DOE/NV/10845-T11; ON: DE93015315
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1992
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English