dc.contributor.author	Young, D. Craig
dc.contributor.author	Hildebrandt, William R.
dc.contributor.author	Far Western Anthropological Research Group.
dc.date.accessioned	2017-06-19T02:42:37Z
dc.date.available	2017-06-19T02:42:37Z
dc.date.issued	2017-06-16
dc.description	63 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The Fort Sage Drift Fence is one of the largest pre-Contact rock features known in the Great Basin, and appears to date between 3700 and 1000 cal B.P. When Pendleton and Thomas (1983) first recorded the 2 km long complex, they were impressed by its sheer size and the amount of labor required to build it. This led them to hypothesize that it must have been constructed, maintained, and used by specialized groups associated with a centralized, village-based settlement system--a system that was not recognized in the archaeological record at that time. Their hypothesis turned out to be quite insightful, as subsequent analyses of faunal remains and settlement pattern data have documented the rise of logistical hunting organization linked to higher levels of settlement stability between about 4500 and 1000 cal B.P. throughout much of the Great Basin. Although Pendleton and Thomas' (1983) proposal has been borne out on a general, interregional level, it has never been evaluated with local archaeological data. This monograph remedies this situation through reporting the excavation findings from a nearby, contemporaneous house-pit village site. These findings allow us to place the drift fence within its larger settlement context, and provide additional archaeological support for the original Pendleton-Thomas hypothesis.	en_US
dc.identifier.other	http://dx.doi.org/10.5531/sp.anth.0102
dc.identifier.uri	http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/6720
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	American Museum of Natural History.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History;no.102.
dc.subject	Paleo-Indians.	en_US
dc.subject	Tufa Village Site (Nev.)	en_US
dc.subject	Fort Sage Drift Fence Site (Nev.)	en_US
dc.subject	Indians of North America -- Hunting.	en_US
dc.subject	Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Great Basin.	en_US
dc.subject	Antiquities, Prehistoric.	en_US
dc.subject	Nevada.	en_US
dc.subject	Great Basin.	en_US
dc.title	Tufa Village (Nevada) : placing the Fort Sage Drift Fence in a larger archaeological context. (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 102)	en_US

Tufa Village (Nevada) : placing the Fort Sage Drift Fence in a larger archaeological context. (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 102)

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