Reports,of the

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY

No.66

NOTES ON WESTERN NEVADA

ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY

University of California Archaeological Research Facility

Department of Anthropology

Berkeley

February 1966

REPORTS OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY

No. 66

NOTES ON WESTERN NEVADA ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY

Department of Anthropology

Berkeley

February 1966

CONTENTS

I. ANALYSIS OF A SURFACE COLLECTION FROM HIGH ROCK CANYON,

NEVADA, by Sonia Ragir and Jane Lancaster  .    .     .       1
II. ARCHAEOLOGY OF GRANITE POINT, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA,

by Norman L. Roust .          .     .     .     .     .      37

III. WASHO HABITATION SITES IN THE LAKE TAHOE AREA,

by Stanley A. Freed           .     .     .     .     .      73

IV. THE OPHIR SKULL FROM VIRGINIA CITY, NEVADA,

by Paulette Reichlen and Robert F. Heizer       .     .      85

V. TWO FISH NETS FROM HIDDEN CAVE, CHURCHILL COUNTY,

NEVADA, by Richard D. Ambro   .     .     .     .     .     101

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