The Nevada State Historic Preservation Office will host a training session Saturday in Mesquite for volunteers interested in protecting the state’s archaeological treasures. State and federal land ...

ELKO (AP) - Rodeo Creek Gold Inc. and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Elko District have reached a $1.5 million settlement that creates a special fund focused on the Tosawihi Quarries. Rodeo ...

My least expensive book also is probably the most interesting, depending what might be of interest to you. I have often referred to “Uncovering Archaeology” as my critique on how archaeology has been ...

Few local jobs have challenges greater than communicating critical nuclear industry information to Southern Nevada residents. Whether the subject is Yucca Mountain or results from two-dozen monitoring ...

The world's largest scholarly organization dedicated to the archaeology of the modern world recently awarded a University of Nevada, Reno assistant professor with a notable distinguished honor. The ...

Dr. Robert Elston of Silver City was awarded the 2014 Nevada Archaeology Association's Silver Trowel Lifetime Achievement Award last week during the Nevada Anthropological Conference in Minden. Elston ...

This image provided by the Great Basin National Park shows a Winchester Model 1873 rifle found in Nevada. The gun made in 1882 was found propped against a juniper tree in the park in November during ...

Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1996), pp. 48-63 (16 pages) Archaeological testing at the Sunshine Locality, White Pine County, Nevada, was conducted to refine ...

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA—The Peace Camp outside the Nevada Test Site, now known as the Nevada National Security Site, has been surveyed by a team led by archaeologist Colleen Beck of the Desert Research ...

The premise of this work is that the interpretation of historic communities is most effective when it is derived from both the physical evidence and the written record. As an introduction to the use ...

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