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CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY

May, 1970

PAPERS ON ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE WESTERN GREAT BASIN

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY

Department of Anthropology

Berkeley

Number 7

CONTENTS

I.    BIG GAME HUNTERS IN THE GREAT BASIN:

A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE,

by Robert F. Heizer and Martin A. Baumhoff ....       ..........  1
II.   RADIOCARBON AGE OF THE GYPSUM CAVE CULTURE,

by Robert F. Heizer and Rainer Berger ....................     13

III. AN ASSESSMENT OF RADIOCARBON DATES FOR THE ROSE

SPRING SITE (CA-Iny-372), INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,

by C. W. Clewlow, Jr., Robert F. Heizer and

Rainer Berger .........       ..................................  19

IV.   A MESCAL KNIFE FROM NEAR OVERTON, MOAPA VALLEY,

SOUTHERN NEVADA, by Robert F. Heizer ......................      28

APPENDIX I:   ANALYSIS OF PITCH SAMPLES,

by Fred H. Stross .......................................      38

V.    NOTES ON BEAD STRINGING AT LOVELOCK CAVE, NEVADA,

by John Carroll ........       .................................  39
VI.   STUDY OF WEAR PATTERNS ON HAFTED AND UNHAFTED

BIFACES FROM TWO NEVADA CAVES,

by Thomas Roy Hester ..................................... 44

VII.  AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF THE PAVIOTSO IN 1882,

edited by Robert F. Heizer ..............................      55
VIII. ADDITIONAL PROJECTILE POINTS AND LITHIC

ARTIFACTS FROM LOVELOCK CAVE, NEVADA,

by C. W. Clewlow, Jr., and Lewis K. Napton ............... 64

IX.   A BASKET MAKER'S WORK KIT FROM LOVELOCK CAVE,

NEVADA, by Richard D. Ambro ...............................      73