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Late Holocene Toolstone Procurement and Land-Use Strategies in the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Country of Northwest Nevada
(2013)
This thesis tests current interpretations of Late Holocene (5,000 cal BP to present) archaeology for the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Country (BRD/HRC) through an assessment of the toolstone procurement and land-use ...
Quantifying Great Basin weather severity; An outlook for Nevada's mule deer.
(2014)
In Nevada, mule deer (Odocoileus hemonius) herds managed by the Nevada Department of Wildlife are experiencing a general population decline. Recruitment into the population is an important measure of the success of a mule ...
If the Desert Blooms: A Technological Perspective on Paleoindian Ecology in the Great Basin from the Old River Bed, Utah
(2011)
The earliest inhabitants of the Great Basin adapted to a well-watered environment that was already set to disappear. This much seems clear from paleoenvironmental data, but a good understanding of how the declining ecosystem ...
Interpretation of upwelling zones and structural controls at Salt Wells and Lee Allen geothermal fields; with two-meter temperature surveys, soil gas surveys, and analysis of existing geothermal exploration data
(2012)
Development of an electricity grade geothermal resource requires a geothermal reservoir but these can be difficult to assess since they occur at depth. Near-surface manifestations such as thermal fluid upwelling zones are ...
The Wizards Beach Men: A Study in Contrasts From Pyramid Lake, Nevada
(2012)
This thesis compares and contrasts two sets of human skeletal remains of different chronometric ages found on Nevada's Pyramid Lake shoreline in 1968. The remains were found when drought lowered the shoreline of the lake, ...
Quantifying the Pre-Archaic to Archaic Transition: A Study of Movement and Land-Use in the Old River Bed of Western Utah
(2014)
Current models of prehistoric movement and land-use in the Old River Bed (ORB) of western Utah suggest that a wetland environment restricted Pre-archaic (pre-8,000 14C yr BP) occupants of the region to movement along a ...
A Stone's Throw from the Source: An Examination of Fine-Grained Volcanic Toolstone Use in the Pah Rah Range, Western Nevada
(2014)
Prehistoric use of the Pah Rah Range in western Nevada has resulted in a diverse record of hunting, processing, and residential sites, many of which contain artifacts manufactured from fine-grained volcanic (FGV) toolstones. ...
Evaluating Gaps in the Radiocarbon Sequences of Northwestern Great Basin Sandals
(2016)
Large gaps occur in the radiocarbon sequences of Multiple Warp and Spiral Weft sandals. The gaps begin during the initial Middle Holocene and last for several millennia; however, the sandal types are technologically ...
Relationships of piñon juniper woodland expansion and climate trends in the Walker Basin, Nevada
(2014)
Landscapes are in constant flux. Vegetation distributions have changed inconjunction with climate, driven by factors such as Milankovitch cycles and atmosphericcomposition. Until recently, these changes have occurred ...
Source-Sink Dynamics and Individual Variation in Prey Selection and Habitat Selection of Mountain Lions in the Great Basin of Nevada
(2014)
ABSTRACT: The mountain lion (Puma concolor) is the widest ranging extant mammal in the Americas. While the history of the mountain lion since the arrival of Europeans in North America is one of strife, the mountain lion ...