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<< Other Photo Pages >> Grimes Point Arch. Area - Cave or Rock Shelter in United States in The West

Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 11 December 2016  Page Views: 16358

Natural PlacesSite Name: Grimes Point Arch. Area Alternative Name: Spirit Cave, Hidden Cave, Burnt Cave
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 13.829 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The West Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Reno  Nearest Village: Fallon
Latitude: 39.402000N  Longitude: 118.638W
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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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Grimes Point Arch. Area submitted by bat400 : Example of Native American rock art on the Grimes Point trail. Source: US BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT website: https://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/carson_city_field/blm_programs/recreation/grimes_point.html U.S. federal government works are not eligible for copyright protection (17 USC 105). This may not apply world-wide -- see the CENDI Copyright FAQ list. The U.S. government states that they "... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Petroglyphs, Caves, Rock Shelters and settlement areas in Churchill County, Nevada.
Petroglyphs abound in the Grimes Point Archaeological Area. Several caves have been the sites of burials dating back to 6000 years ago, including Spirit Cave, the location of a controversial 'mummy' burial dated to 8600 BC.

Burial or settlement caves include Fish Cave, Burnt Cave, and Hidden Cave. Hidden Cave may be visited on guided tours. These sites date back to a time when Lake Lahautan still provided abundant water. Now it is an arid salt flat.

The State of Nevada operates the area for recreation: website.
Also in the area, but on private land, is Spirit Cave, the location of a controversial burial dated to 8600 BC. The remains of Spirit Cave Man are still the subject of litigation between archaeologists who wish to study the remains further, and Indians who claim a relationship and wish to rebury Spirit Cave Man.

Note: North America’s oldest mummy returned to US tribe after genome sequencing. See comment.
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Crossing From Asia, the First Americans Rushed Into the Unknown by Andy B on Thursday, 06 December 2018
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Crossing From Asia, the First Americans Rushed Into the Unknown
Three new genetic analyses lend detail, and mystery, to the migration of prehistoric humans throughout the Western Hemisphere.

Nearly 11,000 years ago, a man died in what is now Nevada. Wrapped in a rabbit-skin blanket and reed mats, he was buried in a place called Spirit Cave.

Now scientists have recovered and analyzed his DNA, along with that of 70 other ancient people whose remains were discovered throughout the Americas. The findings lend astonishing detail to a story once lost to prehistory: how and when humans spread across the Western Hemisphere.

The earliest known arrivals from Asia were already splitting into recognizably distinct groups, the research suggests. Some of these populations thrived, becoming the ancestors of indigenous peoples throughout the hemisphere.

But other groups died out entirely, leaving no trace save for what can be discerned in ancient DNA. Indeed, the new genetic research hints at many dramatic chapters in the peopling of the Americas that archaeology has yet to uncover.

Read more at
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/science/prehistoric-migration-americas.html
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    Book Review: ATLAS OF A LOST WORLD - Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs by Andy B on Thursday, 06 December 2018
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    Book Review: ATLAS OF A LOST WORLD - Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs

    Traveling in ice age America, now almost a vanished landscape, strikes me as a strange topic. After all, the first Americans of 15,000 years ago belong in the realm of archaeology, not travel. Undeterred, the adventure travel writer Craig Childs journeys to experience ice age America, beginning his exploration on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Strait, the highest point of what was once the Bering Land Bridge between Siberia and Alaska. He sees wolves and gazes out over the water, imagining a plain teeming with big game.

    Next we join him on a canoe trip down the Yukon River, a formidable journey, and venture to the Harding Icefield to experience what it would have been like to trek over the great North American ice sheets during the late ice age — if anyone ever did. Childs does indeed get ice and snow blowing in his face, but there’s little about first settlement in these passages, except for a brief discussion of the Bluefish Caves in the Yukon, where some humans camped briefly some 23,000 years ago. Almost certainly they were summer visitors, perhaps from the warmer refuge area of the Land Bridge.

    Fresh from his glacier experiences, Childs turns to the once-exposed plains of the Pacific coastal route. He and his family kayak at first, then take a coastal ferry south, hardly an effective way of puzzling out a series of ancient population movements. He talks of computer models that estimate it took 2,267 years to paddle from Seattle to Monte Verde in Chile, the earliest known archaeological site in the far south. The prose here oozes drama. Childs writes of people who couldn’t stop paddling, of small numbers of adventurers who ended up at Monte Verde because it was like their homeland.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/books/review/atlas-of-a-lost-world-craig-childs.html
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      Additional Early North American Sites by bat400 on Friday, 07 December 2018
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      Well, Dr. Fagan doesn't think much of this book. However, I added links to the two sites he mentions in the review, above.
      Other sites of interest include:
      On-Your-Knees-Cave
      "Dates of 9,730 and 9,880 years BP were obtained on the human remains, making them the oldest ever found in Alaska or Canada. The associated bone tool was dated to 10,300 years old."
      Upward Sun River "...approximately 11,400 years ago, .... a house was dug into the ground, and a hearth contains the evidence of how the people there lived and died."
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North America’s oldest mummy returned to US tribe after genome sequencing by bat400 on Sunday, 11 December 2016
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The sequencing of a 10,600-year-old genome has settled a lengthy legal dispute over who should own the oldest mummy in North America — and given scientists a rare insight into early inhabitants of the Americas.

The controversy centered on the ‘Spirit Cave Mummy’, a human skeleton unearthed in 1940 in northwest Nevada. The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe has long argued that it should be given the remains for reburial, whereas the US government opposed repatriation. Now, genetic analysis has proved that the skeleton is more closely related to contemporary Native Americans than to other global populations. The mummy was handed over to the tribe on 22 November.

The genome of the Spirit Cave Mummy is significant because it could help to reveal how ancient humans settled the Americas, says Jennifer Raff, an anthropological geneticist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. “It’s been a quest for a lot of geneticists to understand what the earliest peoples here looked like,” she says.

The case follows the US government’s decision this year that another controversial skeleton, an 8,500-year-old human known as Kennewick Man, is Native American and qualifies for repatriation on the basis of genome sequencing. Some researchers lament such decisions because the buried skeletons are then unavailable for scientific study. But others point out that science could benefit if Native American tribes use ancient DNA to secure the return of more remains, because this may deliver long-sought data on the peopling of the region. “At least we get the knowledge before the remains are put back in the ground,” says Steven Simms, an archaeologist at Utah State University in Logan, who has studied the Spirit Cave Mummy. “We’ve got a lot of material in this country that’s been repatriated and never will be available to science.”

For more on Spirit Cave Man and other early Americans, see Nature News, Dec 7, 2016.
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