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Natural PlacesSite Name: Gypsum CaveCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 21.379 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Southwest Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Las Vegas
Latitude: 36.223925N Longitude: 114.900228W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Gypsum Cave is a five-room limestone cave in Sunrise Mountain, approximately 12 miles east of Las Vegas. For a twelve-month period, between January 1930 and 1931, noted early archaeologist Mark R. Harrington and a small crew of Native Americans dug through most of the cave's deposit.
Harrington was interested in the cave for its potential to provide evidence of a period in the distant past when it was occupied by both humans and now-extinct mammals, especially the ground sloth (Nothrotheriops shastense). Gypsum Cave is significant because it yields artifacts related to early human occupation and information about the region's ancient ecosystem. It is also important to the early history of North American archaeology.
More at the official web site www.onlinenevada.org/gypsum_cave
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