ABSTRACT The Great Basin has traditionally not featured prominently in discussions of how
and when the New World was colonized; however, in recent years work at Oregon's Paisley …

Abstract The Great Basin of the western US contains a rich record of Late Pleistocene and
Holocene lake‐level fluctuations as well as an extensive record of human occupation during …

As a technologically-complex material class, perishable artifacts have the potential to
address a multitude of socio-economic activities and behaviors; however, their application to …

Although the Great Basin of North America has produced some of the most robust and
ancient fiber artifact assemblages in the world, many were recovered with poor …

Multiproxy data from coprolites at the Connley Caves in central Oregon provide new
evidence for diet, seasonal subsistence strategies, and human health during the middle and …

One of the principal ways that researchers date archaeological sites is by using temporally
diagnostic projectile points as index fossils; however, this practice has not been widely …

Despite ranking at the low end of the continuum in net caloric benefit relative to other foods,
small seeds assumed great dietary importance in many parts of the world, including western …

Oregon's Fort Rock Cave is iconic in respect to both the archaeology of the northern Great
Basin and the history of debate about when the Great Basin was colonized. In 1938, Luther …

ABSTRACT Last Supper Cave (LSC) is located in northwestern Nevada. It was excavated by
Thomas Layton in the early 1970s. Layton recovered Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) …

Abstract In the Great Basin of western North America, studies of prehistoric human
technology have long been conducted in an ecological, evolutionary context. Here we …