Reports of the

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY

No.42

CURRDT VIEWS CN (EAT BASfl ARCHAEOLOGY

Issued April 10, 1958

The University of California Archaeological Survey

Department of Anthropology

University of California
Berkeley 4, California

Robert H. Lowie as an archaeo/ogist, /926

CURRENT VIEWS ON GREAT BASIN ARCHAEOLOGY

Contents

Dedicatory Preface by Robert F0 Heizer *o * .  0 * * a * .

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M. A. Baumhoff
WO J. Wallace

H. H. Aschmann
F. A. Riddell

M. A. Baumhoff a
J. A. Bennyhoff
M. J. Harner

J. A. Bennyhoff

History of Great Basin Ethrography.o 0  * 0 0 o

Archaeological Investigations in Death
Valley National Monument 1952-1957, 0 0
Great Basin Climates 'in Relation

to Human Occupance.     * 0 0 O  0  0 0 e o

The Eastern Califomia Bordero

Cultural and Temporal Affinities. 0 0 0

Lnd R. F. Heizer

Outland Coiled Basketry from the

Caves of West Central Nimada,   0    o  o

and R. F. Heizer

Cross-Dating Great Ba&!?.n S??t29es

by Californian SheLl Beads. o o o *o o0

Lowland Patayan Phaset. ii. the Lower
Colorado River Valley and Colorado

Desert* O O                     0 O  a O O  O   o
The Desert West- A TrIA1 Ccorrslatlon
of Culture and ChronolczZy  ( P,pared
from data submitted aid disc;-,ssd by
participants at a sen.ix ar p.z'ecs.deng

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Illustrations

Robert H. Lowze as an archaeologist, 1926. 0    0    0  0 0 .  . Frontispiece

Map 1

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Illustrations (continued)

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Death Valley National Monument . . . . . . . . .    10
Artifacts from Death Valleyo . . o . o o o o o .    12
Mean Annual Precipitation. o o o o o o o o o o .    26
Precipitation During a General Winter Storm. .      26
Precipitation During a Summer Rainy Spell

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Seasonal Rainfall Distribution o * *  *  * 0 a a 0  28

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Finie Coiled Basketry from the Humboldt Valleyo o

Western Great Basin Sites from Which

Shell Artifacts Have Been Recovered*  o o . o

Shell Artifacts From the Western Great Basin o o

Limits of Great Basin and Boundary of Portion
of Desert West Under Discussion at Meetings

Preceding Great Basin Conference, 1957 *  * * - -

Tentative Chronology of Selected Great

Basin Cultures o o o o * * * ,  , . * o o o o .

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