Reports of the

JJNIVERSITYf OF lCALIFORNIA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY

No.70

PAPERS ON GREAT BASIN ARCHAEOLOGY

University of California Archaeological Research Facility

Department of Anthropology

Berkeley

April 1967

RE PORTS OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY

No. 70

PAPERS ON GREAT BASIN ARCHAEOLOGY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY

Department of Anthropology

Berkeley

April 1967

CONTENTS

I. ANALYSIS OF IIUMAN COPROLITES FROM A DRY NEVADA

CAVE, by Robert F. Heizer     .     .     .     .        1
II.   LAKE-MARGIN ECOLOGIC EXPLOITATION IN THE GREAT

BASIN AS DEMONSTRATED BY AN ANALYSIS OF
COPROLITES FROM LOVELOCK CAVE, NEVADA,

by Richard A. Cowan     ..          .     .     .       21
III.   DIETARY - TECHNOLOGICAL - ECOLOGICAL

ASPECTS OF LOVELOCK CAVE COPROLITES,

by Richard D. Ambro     .     .     .     .             37

IV.   PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF PREHISTORIC HUMAN

COPROLITES FROM FOUR WESTERN NEVADA CAVES,

by Norman L. Roust      .     .     .     .     .       49

V.   THE VIABILITY OF PATHOGENS IN ANCIENT

HUMAN COPROLITES, by Deborah Y. Tubbs

and Rainer Berger .     .     .     .     .     .       89

VI.   FISH REMAINS FROM COPROLITES AND MIDDEN

DEPOSITS AT LOVELOCK CAVE, CHURCHILL

COUNTY, NEVADA, by W. I. Follett    .     .     .       93
VII.   BITE-MARKS IN TULE QUIDS OF PREHISTORIC

NEVADA INDIANS, by Christy G. Turner II   .     .      117

VIII.   NOTE ON INDIAN WOOD CARVING IN THE FORM OF

A GRASSHOPPER FOUND IN LOVELOCK CAVE,

NEVADA, by A. C. Jones, J. R. Weaver and

F. H. Stross      .     .     .     .     .     .      123
IX.   ELKO EARED/ELKO CORNER-NOTCHED PROJECTILE

POINTS AS TIME MARKERS IN THE GREAT

BASIN, by James F. O'Connell  .     .     .     .      129
X.   TIME AND SPACE RELATIONS OF SOME GREAT BASIN

PROJECTILE POINT TYPES, by C. William

Clewlow, Jr.      .     .     .     .     .     .      141
XI.   AN INDIAN TRAIL NEAR NEEDLES, CALIFORNIA,

by J. R. Weaver   .     .     .     .     .     .      151