Prehistoric Lifeways in the Great Basin Wetlands: Bioarchaeological Reconstruction and Interpretation

by Clark Spencer Larsen and Brian E. Hemphill

Prehistoric Lifeways of the Great Basin Wetlands examines how the earliest inhabitants of the Great basin in Nevada, Utah, and Oregon made use of ancient marshes and lakes.

When the Great Salt Lake receded in the 1980s from its highest historically recorded levels, it exposed a large number of archaeological and burial sites. Other wetland areas in the region experienced similar flooding and site exposure. The resulting archaeological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874806038
• ISBN13: 9780874806038
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"