Baker Archeological Site in eastern Nevada
The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management brochure (text and illustrations by Marcia E. Phillips) says the following:
The Baker Archaeological Site (also known as Baker Village) was excavated from 1991 to 1994 and a great deal of evidence was collected. After the excavations were completed the site was backfilled, (reburied with the dirt that was removed during excavation), a necessary step in protecting the cultural features that remain, to preserve them for possible future studies. As a result, the foundations of the village can no longer be seen on the surface. The walls that you see are modern walls, built here in 2002. The buried walls were capped to protect them from erosion by wind.
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GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK AND BAKER, Nevada: In Your Backyard
THE GREAT BASIN NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA is a geographical region encompassing White Pine County, Nevada; Millard County, Utah; and the Duckwater Shoshone Reservation that includes nationally significant archaeological, historical, cultural, natural and scenic features emblematic of the entire Great Basin region. Their website will help you learn more about the Great Basin National Heritage Area, its important features, how to best visit the area, and how to become involved with the organization that helps coordinate its promotion and heritage preservation.. National Heritage Areas are designated by Congress in recognition of the contributions they make in shaping a cohesive, nationally distinctive landscape. There are more than 40 such areas in the United States. Designation confers no authority to manage or regulate land use in any way.
The Great Basin National Heritage Area lies at the crossroads of US Highways 50 and 93 and can be conveniently reached from Salt Lake City, Utah, Las Vegas, Carson City or Reno, Nevada. Opportunities for recreation and engaging in local culture and history abound: Hike among the ancient Bristlecone Pines and view distant galaxies at Great Basin National Park.
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Traces: Campsite Archaeology
Field archaeology at the Bustos Wickiup Site, south of Ely, Nevada. The site was excavated in 1986 after discovery by two residents of Ely, Nevada, Rab and Debbie Bustos.
See the published article:
Simms, Steven R.
1989 The Structure of the Bustos Wickiup Site, Eastern Nevada. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 11:1-34.
Nevada's Hidden Cave: The Past Stays Present
Hear Nevada archaeologist Nathan Strong describe why Hidden Cave was, and continues to be a sacred space American Indians in the Great Basin region. Learn more about Hidden Cave here:
Watson Brake Archeological Site
This is a video that I took from my aircraft at 1000 feet of the oldest known civilization site in the United States. There has been carbon dating to well over 2000 years B.C. It is actually older than Poverty Point. Not much is known about this site but a local archaeologist from the University of Louisiana at Monroe has written about the dig that they performed.
Archaeological Investigation of Beehive Rock Shelter
Archaeologist are conducting investigations at the Bee Hive Rock Shelter located in the Las Vegas Wash. Finds suggest the site was in use 500 to 1,000 years ago. The analysis of this site will help us better understand the past activities of the people who inhabited this area.
Connley Caves 2018
A tour of the Connley Caves, one of the earliest human occupation sites in North America. 2018.
Last summer, I spent 6 weeks out in eastern Oregon, working at a site called Connley Caves under the University of Oregon Archaeological Field School (Northern Great Basin Prehistory Project). For archaeology students, field school is an important stage in our archaeological training, and is required for a professional career in archaeology down the line. There are many field schools to choose from in the states—and even more overseas—but this was the one I chose. I'll treasure the memories I made here for the rest of my life!
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For those expecting regular Japan content, I'm sorry to disappoint! After moving back to the states, I switched majors and got a job working as an archaeological technician in 2017. I plan to share more about this on my blog, but until then I hope this clears up any confusion! Would love to know your thoughts on this, and whether or not anyone would be interested in seeing more in the future! I'm very passionate about it!
Around Kansas - Alcove Springs - Oct. 14, 2015
(Frank) And we're back. I just had this thought, it's very obvious we're back, but we have to think we have to say, we're back! Hey, I know you know this, but you know, Kansas had all kinds of trails coming through it, I mean we're pretty much the center of the United States, and so there were cattle trails and of course there were trails... (Deb) Just like this. (Frank) ...heading to Oregon and California and all of that. And this was one of the stops. So, with that I'm gonna kind of let you talk a little bit about that. (Deb) Well if you haven't been to Alcove Springs, it is beautiful and it is easy to see why it became a popular stop with folks along the Oregon Trail, and it's just, it's like an oasis in the prairie you know with the trees and it's beautiful, falls again, they do have actual little falls there. But it's just one of those beautiful, must have been a beautiful respite for the pioneers that were coming through. So, we're gonna take a look at that. Our friend Bob Hoard, state archaeologist, recently headed a group of volunteers that conducted an archaeological survey at Alcove Springs on the Blue River downstream from Marysville. As Bob wrote in the Kansas Preservation Magazine, Alcove Springs is one of the best-known
stops on the Oregon Trail and is listed on the National Register of Historic laces. Proposed parking areas necessitated the investigation to insure that nothing important would be lost of disturbed. The army of volunteers turned up few artifacts, including a five-cent piece from 1866, but not enough to delay the construction plan. This picturesque area was a favorite campsite near the Independence Crossing of the Big Blue River. The spring originates in an unusual rock formation and falls over a rock ledge into a pool below. Emigrants carved their names in the rocks surrounding the spring and many of these carvings are still visible. The ill-fated wagon train led by George Donner and James Reed camped here in May, 1846. Later that year, trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, some of the pioneers resorted to cannibalism to survive. While camped in the lushness of Alcove Springs though, one of their number wrote “We found a large spring of water, as cold and pure as if it had just been melted from ice. It gushed from a ledge of rocks, which composes the bank of the stream, and falling some ten feet, its waters are received into a basin. A shelving rock projects over this basin, from which falls a beautiful cascade of water, some ten or twelve feet. The whole is buried in a variety of shrubbery of the richest verdure. Altogether it is one of the most romantic spots I ever saw. We named this the Alcove Springs and future travelers will find the name graven on the rocks, and on the trunks of the trees surrounding it.” Reed’s mother-in-law died here while the party was waiting for the river to fall enough to cross. She was buried somewhere in the area. In September the Topeka Symphony Orchestra opened its 70th season at Alcove Springs. Kyle Pickett, music director and conductor, told the Topeka Capital Journal that performing music in the natural setting of Alcove Springs was “an unparalleled experience.” Alcove Springs is located about six miles south of Marysville on the River Road. Follow the highway directional signs.
Metal detecting treasure .... My greatest find ever !!
My biggest find. Metal detecting in the mojave desert of California at a secret location, I discovered and dug up a large bright silver object . After a small mishap and several bandages later.....I was OK !!
I'm still looking for that next treasure and ghost town discovery !!
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Chicago Center for Archaeological Heritage Preservation
The archaeological heritage of the world’s first cities is a priceless, nonrenewable resource and is at greater risk now than at any other time in human history. Looting and armed conflict have taken their toll in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in the Middle East, but the biggest threat to many archaeological sites is agricultural and urban development. To document, preserve, and protect these vital links to human history, the Oriental Institute will create the Chicago Center for Archaeological Heritage Preservation (CCAHP): the first effort of its kind to systematically map, catalog, and monitor at-risk archaeological sites in the Middle East and other regions.
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Preston Dennett (11-20-18) Not from Here The Weird and Unusual Aspects of UFOs
How well do you know the UFO phenomenon? Perhaps not as well as you think. This presentation focuses on the weirder and more unusual side of UFOs--the cases that defy the standard model of contact, the cases that many UFO investigators don’t like to talk about. The evidence presented here will change the way you feel about UFOs:
• People who have received phone calls from ETs.
• What happens if you shoot at a UFO?
• Abductions in which people have seen “Alien Zoos.”
• Why are UFOs hovering over graveyards?
• What is the alien-clown connection?
• Proof that aliens are mining are metals.
• Are UFOs shrinking people?
• Cases of people who receive alien artifacts.
• UFOs and Rockets: The ETs are monitoring our space program.
• Abductions observed by outside witnesses.
• The alien bigfoot connection.
• UFOs Investigator’s Disease: when UFO researchers become investigated by UFOs.
• Cases in which shipwreck castaways are saved by UFOs.
• Can we contact UFOs with a Ouija board?
• Do aliens make mistakes? Hint: Yes!
• Cases of abductees taken into the engine room of UFO and taught how to build a UFO engine.
And much more! The UFO phenomenon is stranger than most people realize. This presentation will show you how truly strange it can be.
About Preston Dennett
Preston Dennett began investigating UFOs and the paranormal in 1986 when he discovered that his family, friends and co-workers were having dramatic unexplained encounters. Since then, he has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and investigated a wide variety of paranormal phenomena. He is a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a ghost hunter, a paranormal researcher, and the author of 20 books and more than 100 articles on UFOs and the paranormal. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines including Fate, Atlantis Rising, MUFON UFO Journal, Nexus, Paranormal Magazine, UFO Magazine, Mysteries Magazine, Ufologist and others. His writing has been translated into several different languages including German, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Icelandic. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including Midnight in the Desert with Art Bell, Coast-to-Coast and also the History Channel’s Deep Sea UFOs and UFO Hunters. His research has been presented in the LA Times, the LA Daily News, the Dallas Morning News and other newspapers. He has taught classes on various paranormal subjects and lectures across the United States. He currently resides in Reseda, California.
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California State Indian Museum.wmv
The Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau likes to acquaint the public with some of the Sacramento sites. Staff Person, Ruth Chambers, introduces the California State Indian Museum.
Donner Party
Lego stop motion picture about the Donner Party
Day of the Dead video for Nevada Stories
Our film La Vida en Muerte: Life in Death Festival, was available to the audience at The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival, held 7-11 May 2013. It was also viewed on individual viewing stations during Festival Week at the Baker Downtown Center, University of Oregon, and listed and described in the Festival Program along with the other entries.
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Water Dowsing Expert Jack Coel Proves Skill
Website: Special thanks to Jeremy of Sacramento Search Engine Optimization Company ZrysMedia for putting this together for me.
Jack Coel is a full time Dowser, some people call it water witching. Jack has been Dowsing for over 39 years and does over 400 locations a year. Jack Coel is listed in 34 telephone Directories and up to 10 newspapers. Jack travels over 70,000 miles a year to produce as much water as possible.
My mission in life is to find water. I have provided over 9,500 well sites the last 39 years, dowsing. I regularly and consistently outperform any technology, science, or part-time dowsing amateur in locating water. Large municipal or agricultural locations as well as domestic sources are identified.
Over the years, I have provided well sites for the U.S. Dept. of Interior, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, State of California, many municipalities, School Districts, many large agricultural wells, etc. I am the only full time professional Water Dowser in the western U.S. I can be found in 40 telephone directories and up to 15 newspapers in five states, and the Internet.
I charge $975.00 to Dowse per parcel. I charge travel at $50.00 per hour, one way. My fee typically amounts to the cost of 20-30 foot of drilling, sends you after your best source, and eliminates dry holes. I am coming from Upper Lake, CA in Lake County. I will consider any job, anywhere.
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Giant bong and huggable soft toys at Marijuana museum
(20 Sep 2018) LEADIN:
What do a glass bong taller than a giraffe and giant huggable soft toys in the shape of marijuana buds have in common?
They are all part of Las Vegas' newest attraction: a museum celebrating all things cannabis.
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The curators of the new museum, aptly named Cannibition, are ensuring everything here gets noticed.
All the exhibits are larger than life, like this enormous hand holding a marijuana 'joint'.
The colours, if not the designs, hark back to the sixties when cannabis was a part of hippy and psychedelic culture.
Nobody will be allowed to light up at Cannabition when it opens today (20 September 2018) because of a state ban on the public consumption of marijuana.
But visitors will get to learn some facts about the drug while they wonder at the exhibits.
This museum is all about social media and it is aimed at getting people to come and share their experiences on the internet.
The lights and exhibits are meant to ensure people want to take and make selfies.
The founder of the museum J.J. Walker says he aims to destigmatize marijuana use.
What is the next natural trend in cannabis? It's social cannabis. It's connecting people in a public environment. So we saw Cannibition as a great way to create this larger than life experience about cannabis and we're we're super excited about it, says Walker.
Walker believes the museum will appeal to Nevada officials who've not yet had success enticing gambling-resistant millennials to Sin City.
The museum opens to visitors 15 months after it became legal for adults in the state to buy recreational marijuana.
So far, sales are exceeding the state's projections.
Walker says: We go over the next several months, we have lots of tourists that come through here. We show that this isn't a scary business, that social cannabis can be very mainstream. We hope that by the end of the year that the city of Las Vegas allows and sets up rules around social consumption and that Cannibition becomes one of the first in the world to actually get a license to have consumption of cannabis in our facility.
Visitors can wander through rooms like seed, where people can lie down in a bed shaped like a marijuana seed.
Another installation is called: Grow. It features artificial plants in various sizes placed under bright lights, representing an indoor cannabis farm.
Photo ops are also available under a glow-in-the-dark tree, next to a giant marijuana leaf and a 24-foot-tall glass bong billed as the world's largest and dubbed Bongzilla.
From all of our research, a 24 foot bong, two stories high, that's glass and is actually smokeable, it'd be hard pressed to find another one in the world, says Walker.
This facility in Las Vegas' downtown entertainment district is not exactly the Smithsonian of marijuana, but it has some educational components.
Guests get an introduction from museum guides and some graphics on walls explain how concentrates are made and the differences between indica and sativa cannabis strains.
Jeremy Moore, the cultivation manager of the Green & Gold Supply Company, says: I think the museum, you know people that haven't gone into a dispensary, once they go to that museum they'll want to go check it out, you know?
Only adults 21 and older will be allowed in. The tour is designed to last up to an hour.
The museum has invited in a number of marijuana suppliers which its website refers to as its sponsors.
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Southern Nevada Surface Collection Levallois-like Stone Technology
This video presents an overview of percussion flaked stone artifacts from surface collected sites within an hour's drive of Las Vegas, Nevada. They were collected by an avocational archaeologist over a long period apparently from the 1960s to the 1990s. Sites investigated include Turtle Hill, Knobs, and Lookout. The investigator believed many of the specimens to represent Pre-Clovis archaeological cultures and apparent Levallois-like artifacts may be seen from approx.1:09:45 to 1:12:45 in the video.