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Number 35                           April 1977
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CONTRIBUTIONS
OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY
Number 35
April 1977
GREAT BASIN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Department of Anthropology
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.     Archaeological Materials from a Site in the Black Rock Desert
of Northern Nevada
by Thomas R. Hester ........ . . . . . . . . .. .  .  1
HI.    Evidence for the Early Occupation of the Washoe Lake Basin
by Thomas R. Hester and Lucy R. Jameson     .....  17
m.     A Preliminary Statistical Analysis of Chipped Crescents from
the Great Basin
by Jimmy L. Mitchell, Paula Rosa, Stanley
Castagnetto, and Thomas R. Hester      ........... 23
IV.    Inadequacy of Coprolites and Random Fecal Specimens as
Dietary Indicators
by B. P. Poovaiah, L. K. Napton, and D. H.
Calloway....*     . . *   . .....**........ .....*   49
VO     Fish Remains from Thea Heye Cave, NV-Wa-385 Washoe
County, Nevada
by W.I. Follett . ......         *  .... .   . 59
VI.    Civa Shelter, Nye County, Nevada -- Report of Test
Excavations
by Colin I. Busby .. . ................... ................. 81
VII.   Ancient Indian Camp in Nevada Described
by R.J. Penrose . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
VIII.  Notes on Boundaries and Culture of the Panamint Shoshone
and Owens Valley Paiute
by Gordon L. Grosscup .......... . ........ 109