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Page 121 at 1976 Arizona State Museum Archaeologi- Content/Uploads/2013/05/2013- Cal Survey Card for AZ L:7:14 N E V A D A A R C H A E O L O G I S T VOLUME 26, 2013 ADDITIONAL INSIGHT INTO NEVADA‟S PAST NEVADA ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION NEVADA ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION tive members receive a subscription to the Nevada Nevada Archaeologist and the NAA newsletter In Situ. Sub- scription is by membership only; however, individual Archaeological or back issues may be purchased separately. Association Dues The design for the NAA logo was adapted by Robert Elston from a Student ........................................................ $10 Garfield Flat petroglyph. Active Individual ........................................ $20 Active Family ............................................. $25 Supporting .................................................. $50 Board of Directors Corporate .................................................... $50 The Board of Directors of the Nevada Archaeo- Affiliate ...................................................... $50 logical Association (NAA) is elected annually by the Lifetime .................................................... $500 membership. Board members serve one-year terms. The Board of Directors meets five times a year, once Future Issues immediately prior to and immediately following the Please follow the Society for American Archaeo- Annual Meeting, and once again each of the remain- logy‟s (SAA) style guide for submitting manuscripts ing quarters throughout the year. (5,000-word limit) to the Nevada Archaeologist. The style guide can be found at: www.saa.org/ publica- President tions/StyleGuide/styFrame.html. A. Craig Hauer Vice-President General Correspondence Jeffrey Wedding Inquiries and general correspondence with the Secretary NAA should be directed to: Sally Underwood Treasurer Nevada Archaeological Association Cristina Callisto P.O. Box 73145 Membership Las Vegas, NV 89170-314 Susan Edwards Webmaster Visit us on the Web at: www.nvarch.org. Karla Jageman Members at Large Code of Ethics Susan Edwards Calvin Jennings The purpose of the NAA is to preserve Nevada‟s Mark Giambastiani Sean McMurry antiquities, encourage the study of archaeology, and Karla Jageman to educate the public to the aims of archaeological State Site Stewardship Coordinator, SHPO Office research. Members and chapters of the NAA shall: (ex-officio member) 1. Uphold the purpose and intent of the NAA. Samantha Rubinson 2. Adhere to all antiquities laws. Editor, Nevada Archaeologist 3. Seek the advice, consent, and assistance of Geoffrey M. Smith professionals in archaeology and/or history in dealing with artifacts, sites, and other mate- Membership rials relating to antiquities. The NAA is an incorporated, non-profit organi- 4. Assist professionals and educators in accom- zation registered in the state of Nevada, and has no plishing the objectives of the NAA. paid employees. Membership is open to any person 5. Be a personal envoy of the NAA and respon- signing the NAA Code of Ethics who is interested in sible for conducting themselves in a manner archaeology and its allied sciences, and in the con- so as to protect the integrity of artifacts, sites, servation of archaeological resources. Requests for or other materials. membership and dues should be sent to the Member- ship Chairman at the address below. Make all checks Cover payable to the Nevada Archaeological Association. Feature 1, West Brickworks, 26LA4354. Photo Membership cards will be issued on the payment of courtesy of Rob McQueen. dues and the receipt of a signed Code of Ethics. Ac- NEVADA ARCHAEOLOGIST VOLUME 26, 2013 Table of Contents Editor‟s Corner Geoffrey M. Smith .......................................................................................................................... iii History, Technological Innovation, and Potential for Industrial Archaeology of the Old Savage Mine Site, Virginia City, Nevada Sarah E. Cowie and Lisa Machado .................................................................................................. 1 Brick Manufacturing in the Cortez Mining District, Nevada Robert McQueen and JoEllen Ross-Hauer .................................................................................... 17 Exploring Healthcare Practices of the Lovelock Chinese: An Analysis and Interpretation of Medicinal Artifacts in the Lovelock Chinatown Collection Sarah Heffner ................................................................................................................................. 25 Experimental Comparison of Projectile Points and Unmodified Flakes for Butchering Justin M. Goodrich ........................................................................................................................ 37 Pahranagat Representational Style: A Unique Rock Art Tradition in and Surrounding the Pahranagat Valley, Lincoln County, Nevada William G. White ........................................................................................................................... 45 Fecalphelia, or How Archaeologists Learned to Stop Ignoring and Start Loving Fecal Deposits Steven Holm .................................................................................................................................... 63 Rock and Gravel Row Mounds/Aggregate Harvesting Near Historic Railroads in the Desert and Basin Regions of California and Nevada Ruth A. Musser-Lopez .................................................................................................................... 73 Good Luck in Making Unexpected Fortunate Discoveries: Teaching and Learning at Serendipity Shelter Melinda Leach, William Swearson, Amber Summers-Graham, and Katie Graham ...................... 85 i NEVADA ARCHAEOLOGIST VOLUME 26, 2013 ii NEVADA ARCHAEOLOGIST VOLUME 26, 2013 Editor’s Corner Geoff Smith Welcome to the latest edition of the Nevada who submitted papers for Volume 26 of the Ne- Archaeologist. It has been a pleasure to edit vada Archaeologist. The range of paper topics another volume and hard to believe that another and author backgrounds highlights the diversity year has passed so quickly. It‟s once again time of the NAA. This year, we received papers from for college football, cooler temperatures, dark undergraduate and graduate students, faculty beer, and the Nevada Archaeologist. members from institutions both within and Although the formatting has remained simi- beyond Nevada, CRM firm employees, and land lar to that of previous editions, we‟ve made one managers. First, Sarah Cowie and Lisa Machado major change – papers in this and subsequent provide an overview of the Savage Mine, one of editions will undergo a peer-review process. the many mining operations in our beloved Vir- Most of you are likely familiar with how the ginia City. They highlight the utility of explor- peer-review process works: authors submit ma- ing the rich record offered by historic docu- nuscripts for consideration in a journal and after ments, many of which are housed in the Univer- an initial read-through, the editor sends them to sity of Nevada, Reno‟s Special Collections, and anonymous reviewers, who comment on the how they can guide archaeological fieldwork. quality and content of the papers. The purpose of Next, Robert McQueen and JoEllen Ross- this process is three-fold: (1) to ensure that the Hauer highlight an understudied but important content of each manuscript is accurate and clear- aspect of Nevada‟s archaeological record: ly presented; (2) to offer the authors suggestions brickmaking. Drawing from an enormous data- on how to improve their manuscripts; and (3) set collected from the historic Cortez Mining make it more attractive for students and faculty District in north-central Nevada, their paper is – whose publishing productivity is often eva- just one of many that have and will continue to luated annually – to publish in the Nevada Arc- provide insight into life at Cortez. haeologist. I would like to thank both current Sarah Heffner presents a summary of her and future authors as well as NAA President dissertation research on Chinese use of both tra- Craig Hauer and the NAA Board Members for ditional and Euro-American medicine using the being open to this idea, as well as the anonym- Lovelock Chinatown Collection, collected not ous reviewers who offered their time to review too far down I-80 from McQueen and Ross- the papers. Hopefully we can all agree that it has Hauer‟s study area. Her work highlights the po- been a useful and welcome change to the Neva- tential value of existing archaeological collec- da Archaeologist. NAA members of all persua- tions to further our understanding of the past. sions – avocational archaeologists, agency em- Justin Goodrich presents the results of an ployees, students, faculty, and interested readers experiment comparing the utility of unmodified are encouraged to submit manuscripts to the Ne- flakes and projectile points for butchering game. vada Archaeologist (see “Call for Papers” at the A recent UNR graduate, Goodrich conducted the back of this volume). This is your journal and it experiment while an undergraduate student and has and will continue to feature your work. as his former instructor, I applaud the initiative Thanks are especially due to the authors that he showed and his willingness to go beyond iii NEVADA ARCHAEOLOGIST VOLUME 26, 2013 simply writing a run-of-the-mill term paper in Ruth Musser-Lopez builds on an earlier Ne- my lithic analysis class. His contribution high- vada Archaeologist paper by Stearns and lights the potential that Justin has to go on to do McLane, published a few years ago in
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