A Collection of Fiber Sandals from Last Supper Cave, Nevada, and Its Implications for Cave and Rock Shelter Abandonment during the Middle Holocene
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May 2017
Abstract
Last Supper Cave, located in northwestern Nevada, was excavated in the 1960s and 1970s. It contained a rich record of human occupation spanning the Holocene, but many artifacts from the site, including a large basketry collection, remain unstudied. We report the results of our technological analysis and radiocarbon dating of 14 fiber sandals from Last Supper Cave, which include examples of Fort Rock, Multiple Warp, and Spiral Weft types found at other sites in the northwestern Great Basin. Radiocarbon dates on the sandals correspond well with previous dates from Last Supper Cave and suggest that it was visited episodically for over 10 millennia; however, when considered together with the growing list of dates from the site, the sandal dates suggest that Last Supper Cave saw a prolonged hiatus in occupation during the Middle Holocene—a pattern common at other sandal-bearing sites in the northwestern Great Basin.
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American Antiquity, Vol. 82, no. 2 (2017-05-05).
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Ollivier, Aaron P.; Smith, Geoffrey M.; and Barker, Pat, "A Collection of Fiber Sandals from Last Supper Cave, Nevada, and Its Implications for Cave and Rock Shelter Abandonment during the Middle Holocene" (2017). KIP Articles. 912.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/912
