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<< Text Pages >> Antelope Cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in United States in The Southwest

Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 11 August 2015  Page Views: 2125

Natural PlacesSite Name: Antelope Cave
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 49.22 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Southwest Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Las Vegas, NV  Nearest Village: Colorado City, AZ
Latitude: 36.889000N  Longitude: 113.256W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Cave or Rock Shelter in Mohave County, Arizona.
The site is believed to have been a sporadically-occupied hunting and processing locale during Archaic, Basketmaker, and Pueblo periods. Recent radiocarbon dates of samples from mid 20th C excavations indicate the major Ancestral Pueblo (a early phase referred to as the Virgin Anasazi) occupation of the cave between 680 AD and 960 AD.

Despite the barren surroundings of the shelter, with water sources and trees miles away, excavations in 1959 - 1960 of the cave's midden revealed the its inhabitants were using the cave as a site for processing jackrabbits. The extensive collection of artifacts at UCLA have provided later researchers the means of investigating diet and resource strategies of the early Puebloans.

Note: 1,200-Year-Old Pouches Found in Arizona Cave Contain Prehistoric ‘Chewing Tobacco,’ Study Finds. See comment.
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Prehistoric ‘Chewing Tobacco’ Found in Arizona Cave by bat400 on Tuesday, 11 August 2015
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Dozens of small, fiber-wrapped bundles discovered in a cave in Arizona have been found to contain wild tobacco, the first scientific evidence suggesting that Ancestral Puebloans of the prehistoric Southwest chewed tobacco for personal use, archaeologists say.

“As wads of fibers, perhaps they haven’t produced as much excitement as they could have, before we realized ancient folks were actually putting substances inside them,” said Dr. Karen Adams of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, who led the new study.

“Before we took this close look, I think prior explanations centered around ancient people sucking on quids during times of food stress, maybe to get some minor amounts of nutrients out of them.

“There have been a host of other suggestions for quid usage, too … such as ‘tea bags,’ dye bundles, and wash pads.”

The Arizona quids were originally excavated in the 1950s from a trash midden at the rear of Antelope Cave, a rocky enclave filled with artifacts left by Ancestral Puebloans over an extended period around 1,200 years ago.

The cave contained a wealth of materials such as arrows, basketry, and feathered ornaments, giving researchers unprecedented insights into an early phase of Puebloan culture sometimes referred to as the Virgin Anasazi.

But the quids remained unstudied, languishing in museum storage for half a century, until Keith Johnson of California State University, Chico, and his colleagues, took a closer look.

Johnson recalled taking note of the quids when he catalogued Antelope Cave’s artifacts for what would become UCLA’s Fowler Museum of Cultural History in 1960.

“We thought even then that some [of the quids] might include tobacco and noted this in the catalog,” he said.

“More than 50 years later, as I began to describe and analyze the quids as part of a broader study of the materials from Antelope Cave, I found that most of the quids in the collection contained tiny plant fragments.

“Not being a botanist, I turned to Karen for help.”

A total of 345 quids had been recovered from the cave, all but one of which were found in its midden of cast-off trash.

This suggested to the archaeologists that the quids were used informally by the cave’s inhabitants, rather than for ceremonial purposes.

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