Bovine Bluff Site: An Early Puebloan Site in the Upper Moapa Valley

摘要

Bovine Bluff is a multi-component site representing primarily Puebloan occupation with a possible earlier use by Archaic peoples and later use by Paiute Indians. The site has been heavily impacted by pothunting in recent years, but can still yield significant data. The site was recorded in 1982 with an inventory of an area for which St. John's Catholic Church had applied for a building permit. The document is a progress report describing the results of field investigations completed in 1983 and 1984. Analyses of the surface assemblage collected from the site and materials recovered through limited excavations are presented. Future investigations necessary to complete data recovery efforts at the site are aimed primarily at further subsurface explorations of the architectural adobe features.