A First Look at the Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Record of Guano Valley, Oregon, USA

What we talk about when we talk about seasonality – A transdisciplinary review

“…These high elevation zones would have been snow-covered during much of the year. In the Cascades, sources of high-quality obsidian that were used by Paleoindian populations are above the snowline and would have only been accessible seasonally (e.g., [463]). For these reasons, reconstructing seasonality in the Great Basin and adjacent mountain ranges is necessary for understanding the initial peopling of the continental interior.…”

Reinvestigating Cougar Mountain Cave: New Perspectives on Stratigraphy, Chronology, and a Younger Dryas Occupation in the Northern Great Basin

“…Over the past two decades, researchers from the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History, the University of Nevada, Reno, and the Nevada State Museum have conducted investigations at the earliest sites in the northwestern Great Basin (Connolly et al 2016; Connolly et al 2017; Felling 2015; Jenkins 2007; Jenkins et al 2012; Jenkins et al 2013; Jenkins et al 2017; Reaux et al 2018; Smith et al 2014; Smith et al 2015). Several projects have reinvestigated previously excavated sites such as the Paisley, Connley, Fort Rock, and Last Supper caves through additional fieldwork or renewed studies of museum collections.…”