The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City

by Carolyn L. White

Book Overview

Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for Burning Man, an event that creates the sixth-largest population center in Nevada. By mid-September the infrastructure that supported the community is fully dismantled, and by October the land on which the city lay is scrubbed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826363938
• ISBN13: 9780826363930
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"