The Pottery Hill Site: A Historic Period Shoshone Settlement in Grass Valley, Nevada by Wells, Helen Fairman

The Pottery Hill Site: A Historic Period Shoshone Settlement in Grass Valley, Nevada Volume 138 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781647691349)

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The Pottery Hill Site: A Historic Period Shoshone Settlement in Grass Valley, Nevada by Wells, Helen Fairman

The Pottery Hill Site: A Historic Period Shoshone Settlement in Grass Valley, Nevada Volume 138

$40.00
The Pottery Hill Site: A Historic Period Shoshone Settlement in Grass Valley, Nevada by Wells, Helen Fairman

The Pottery Hill Site: A Historic Period Shoshone Settlement in Grass Valley, Nevada Volume 138

$40.00
Format: Paperback
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This archaeological study of the interactions between Western Shoshone families and Euro-American ranchers in the late nineteenth century helps fill the gap between what is known regarding Late Prehistoric foragers of the American West and ethnohistoric understanding of Native American peoples of the Great Basin.

Pottery Hill, an archaeological site located in Grass Valley, Nevada, northeast of the historic mining town of Austin, represents a small settlement of Native Americans who lived there in the late 1800s. The Grass Valley Shoshone, whose environment and traditional lifeways were disrupted by the arrival of miners and settlers in the 1860s, found work on the ranches and farms in the valley.

Archaeological fieldwork conducted in the 1970s investigated house remains, hearths, and artifacts. A recent analysis of these data, enhanced by the use of archival documents and oral history, provides new insights into the dynamics of late nineteenth-century life in central Nevada. The Pottery Hill Site addresses a critical period in the history of the Grass Valley Shoshone, who adopted and modified Euro-American artifacts and materials while maintaining important aspects of their traditional culture. It gives readers a deeper understanding of the effects of Euro-American settlement on the Shoshone, the history of the western United States, and the reciprocal impacts of cultural contact.

Author: Helen Fairman Wells, Evelyn Seelinger
ISBN-10: 1647691346
ISBN-13: 9781647691349
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Language: English
Published: 09/29/2023
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 10.94h x 8.27w x 0.39d
By Helen Fairman Wells
By Helen Fairman Wells
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Helen Fairman Wells participated in three seasons of the Grass Valley Archaeological Project in central Nevada, and her dissertation research addressed prehistoric and historic use of the pinyon zone in the mountains bordering Grass Valley. After a long career in cultural resource management, primarily in the Great Basin and California, she taught at California State University, Los Angeles, and has been conducting archaeological research in the Mojave Desert region of California since the early 2000s.

Evelyn Seelinger is an archaeologist who worked primarily in the Great Basin and managed collections and data for the Nevada State Museum and archaeological data for the Utah Division of State History. She was involved in six seasons of the Grass Valley Archaeological Project.

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