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Multi-periodSite Name: Yellowstone Lake
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 36.726 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Northwest Mountains Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 44.446390N  Longitude: 110.36583W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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5 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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bat400 visited on 1st Jun 2002 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Strikingly beatuiful lake. No visible sign of the prehistoric occupation.

Yellowstone Lake
Yellowstone Lake submitted by Flickr : Across Sedge Bay - Yellowstone Lake In Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone Lake is a natural lake and is the largest high altitude mountain lake in the United States at 7,733 feet above sea level. It's thought that this lake originally drained South into the Pacific Ocean via the Snake River. It currently drains North from its only outlet, the Yellowstone River, at Fishing Bridge and flows... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Thousands of years before Euro-Americans “discovered” the bubbling mudpots and eruptive geysers of what is now Yellowstone National Park, early Americans were spending part of their summer camping in the Yellowstone Lake area. “It’s always been a destination resort,” said Elaine Hale, park archaeologist. “For at least 10,000 years people have been using the lake area.”

Thanks to archaeological digs around Yellowstone Lake last summer by University of Montana assistant archaeology professor Douglas MacDonald and 13 graduate and undergrad students, park officials are now getting a broader picture of early human use of the lake area.

“The lake may have served as a crossroads of sorts for Native Americans from multiple regions,” MacDonald said.

Why here?

The reasons are several.

Obsidian, a valued rock used to create razor-sharp points for weapons and tools, is located about 20 miles to the northwest at Obsidian Cliff. The lake area contains a variety of flora – everything from camas to wild onions – that would have created a great stew or to create medicines. And there was plenty of wildlife in the region. One archaeological site turned up blood residue from bear, wolf and deer as well as rabbit sinew.

“The lake area was clearly an important warm-weather hunting and gathering grounds for Native Americans from all over the northwestern Great Plains, northern Great Basin and northern Rocky Mountains,” MacDonald said.

His group’s explorations are part of the university’s Montana-Yellowstone Archaeological Project, which is now entering its fourth year. The partnership offers students the opportunity to perform field work while Yellowstone receives inexpensive research help.

This past summer, MacDonald’s crew made some unique finds. Along the northeast shore, the crew uncovered the park’s first Early Archaic hearth, dating to 5,800 years ago.

“The feature indicates that Native Americans used the park during the hot and dry altithermal climate period,” MacDonald said.

The Altithermal Period followed the last ice age, after large mammals like woolly mammoths had become extinct. Yellowstone Lake, during that time, would have been a huge oasis drawing people, and wildlife, from throughout the region.

Hale said analysis of campsites showed some visitors could have been small parties of male hunters, while others were families staying for longer periods.

“There are sites along the lake where there was extensive processing of hides,” Hale said. “We found sites where freshly quarried obsidian cobble had been transported to the area. This is a lithic workshop area.”

Another campsite was littered with about a dozen shaft abraders, used to smooth arrows and spears.

“That smacks of duration,” Hale said.

Another unique find was a large obsidian spear point. MacDonald theorized that the point was created for ceremonial purposes, since it’s 150 percent larger than other spear points of the same time.

The point was shaped in the style of the Hopewell Culture of about 1,500 years ago. The Hopewell Culture is known for being one of the first in North America to lead a more sedentary life that included farming, and metal working, and created burial mounds along the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys. They also traded extensively.

“It is well known that Obsidian Cliff obsidian was traded eastward to the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys,” MacDonald said. “Some archaeologists also speculate that Hopewell Native Americans themselves actually traveled to Obsidian Cliff to collect obsidian.

“Our large spear point was likely a ceremonial item, as was much of the obsidian for Hopewell people,” he said. “Most of the obsidian at sites back east is found within burial contexts.”

The UM research also indicates that “most Native Americans using the northern end of the lake traded and traveled primarily to the north, east and west, rather than to the south,” MacDonald said. “Other work at sites along the south shore of the lake indicated that Native Americans in that area were focused more southward.”

So there seemed to be some reason, possibly a cultural one, for why the people traveling from the south into the lake area didn’t move farther north.

“It just so happens that Yellowstone Lake is at the edge of multiple different tribal territories,” MacDonald said.

MacDonald and a crew of 22 graduate and undergraduate students will continue their work in the park this summer, their fourth year, surveying other parts of the lake’s shore. By identifying important cultural resource sites, park officials can plan any development to exclude and protect those areas, Hale said. Four of the five sites uncovered last summer are being considered for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

“This is a huge benefit to the park for very little cost,” Hale said. “It’s a huge benefit to the students, too, because they have a big area to do archaeology in.”

Source: missoulian.com


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Yellowstone Lake
Yellowstone Lake submitted by Flickr : Yellowstone Lake Sunrise at yellowstone Lake facing Lake Hotel. Image copyright: aland67 (Aland), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Yellowstone Lake
Yellowstone Lake submitted by Flickr : West Thumb Geyser Basin A view of this beautiful geyser basin at the west end of Yellowstone Lake. The heat generated is probably valued by the wildlife this time of year. Have a wonderful Wednesday! Image copyright: Philip Kuntz (Phil's Pixels), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yellowstone Lake submitted by Flickr : Mist over Yellowstone Lake Sunrise over Sedge Bay Yellowstone Lake direction Steamboat point. It was freezing and the warmer lake water caused mist over the Lake and gives a great atmosphere. Image copyright: aland67 (Aland), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Locked doors, cancelled tours: US national parks suffer amid shutdown by Andy B on Saturday, 22 December 2018
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Visitors face ‘disruption and disappointment’ as states scramble to keep key sites open

The doors remained locked at Fort McHenry National Monument in Maryland, the birthplace of the US national anthem. In Georgia, the Fort Pulaski National monument announced it would be closed except for one boat ramp. At Washington’s Mount Rainier national park, ranger-led snowshoe walks were cancelled.

And at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, a scheduled talk by the nation’s oldest park ranger, 97-year-old Betty Reid Soskin, had to be called off.

As the early hours of the federal shutdown dawned at national parks, seashores and monuments around the nation, it quickly became apparent that many travelers would have to cancel or seriously scale back their visits owing to the lack of park service staff.

At Yellowstone, Yosemite and many other major parks, the park service announced it would keep the access to parklands open, but many services, including restrooms, trash removal, some visitors centers and snow removal, would cease.

As a rule, it said, if a facility or area is locked outside of normal business hours, such as a parking lot, it would stay locked through the shutdown.

State governments in New York, Arizona and Utah, scrambled to provide local funding to ensure that key sites including the Statue of Liberty, the Grand Canyon and Zion national parks could remain open.

“Visitors from around the world who have planned their trips to our national parks months in advance now face the possibility of disruption and disappointment when they arrive at parks only to find closed visitor centers, locked restrooms and unplowed roads,” Theresa Pierno, the president of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), said in a statement.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/22/national-parks-impacted-by-government-shutdown-trump
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Some National parks to stay open without staff in government shutdown by Andy B on Saturday, 22 December 2018
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National parks across the US will remain open to visitors under a shutdown but most facilities — including bathrooms — will be shuttered, according to the Interior Department’s 2018 contingency plan.

That means visitors who planned to visit a national park over the holidays will still be able to do so but will have to go without guidance from any NPS officials.

Visitors centers, bathrooms, campsites, trash collection and road maintenance will all be closed and halted in a potential shutdown, according to the federal plan. NPS employees will have as little as four hours to complete their “shutdown activities” before entering furlough status.

“Effective immediately upon a lapse in appropriations, the National Park Service will take all necessary steps to suspend all activities and secure national park facilities that operate using appropriations that are now lapsed, except for those that are essential to respond to emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property,” according to the plan.

Free standing gift shops, lodging and gas stations will remain open if they don't require assistance by federal employees, according to a NPS spokesperson.

"In the event of a government shutdown national parks will remain as accessible as possible while still following all applicable laws and procedures. For example, this means that roads that have already been open will remain open (think snow removal) and vault toilets (wilderness type restrooms) will remain open," the spokesperson told The Hill.

"However services that require staffing and maintenance such as campgrounds and full service restrooms, will not be operating."

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Operations at Yellowstone during the government shutdown (12-22-2018) by Andy B on Saturday, 22 December 2018
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MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – In response to the lapse in federal appropriations, Yellowstone National Park is implementing its plan for a government shutdown:

Yellowstone will remain open, however, all government-run operations and facilities are closed. Entrance stations will not be staffed.

The road from the park’s North Entrance at Gardiner, Montana, through Mammoth Hot Springs to the Northeast Entrance at Cooke City, Montana, is open to wheeled vehicle travel. Visitors can access all the commercial services along this route (including commercial services in Mammoth Hot Springs and Tower).

Visitors can also access commercial services in the interior of the park via oversnow travel (e.g. at Old Faithful). Concessioners are currently providing funding for road grooming so that oversnow access to the interior is possible.

Guided snowmobile and snowcoach trips with commercial operators will be allowed. Non-commercially guided snowmobile trips will also be allowed.

If conditions become unsafe at any time, roads and/or developed areas in the park may be closed.

Park staff will provide emergency services and law enforcement. All park regulations, including those regarding oversnow travel, are in effect as normal.
The park website and social media sites will not be maintained.
All administrative offices, including the public affairs office, will be closed until the government reopens.
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https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/12222018.htm

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