06 Sep The Court of Antiquity
Perhaps a few hundred years ago, or as many as 10,000, Native Americans gathered at this spot above the Truckee River to the east of the broad meadows that would become the city of Reno....
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06 May The Needles at Pyramid Lake
The Needles area of Pyramid Lake, and its hot springs, have been closed to all but the Pyramid Lake Paiute since 1980....
07 May Lagomarsino Canyon Petroglyphs
Lagomarsino Canyon, a Nevada rock art site on the National Register of Historic Places, is a quarter mile long. It consists of 2229 rock art panels, some created up to 10,000 years ago....
27 Jan Sunset and Fog at Pyramid Lake
Fog blankets all of Pyramid Lake in this panorama made at sunset on January 26, 2013....
20 Dec Stewart Indian School
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From 1890 until it closed in 1980, the Stewart Indian School in Carson City was the only off-reservation boarding school in Nevada for Native American children....
12 Dec Petroglyphs and Roasting Pit
In this canyon near Las Vegas, the rich resources, especially agave, were an abundant source of food and drew people to this canyon over thousands of years....
04 Dec Hickison Summit Petroglyphs
Between Austin and Eureka, this mountaintop rest stop offer more than the usually assortment of shaded picnic tables and restrooms....
18 Nov Valley of Fire State Park
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Mouse's Tank trail in Valley of Fire State Park follows a box canyon to a natural basin named for a Southern Paiute who allegedly used the area as a hideout in the 1890s....
17 Nov Sloan Ranger
The Sloan Ranger, which may be a Native American’s rock-hewn portrait of a new arrival to Nevada, is found in the 48,438-acre Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area south of Las Vegas....
28 Oct Dry Lakes Rock Art Documentation
In October 2006 Nevada Rock Art Foundation volunteers, led by director Alanah Woody, worked to document the rock art sites in the Dry Lakes area northeast of Reno....
26 Oct Lake Lahontan Petroglyphs
The calcium carbonate "tufa" visible below the petroglyph is evidence that the level of prehistoric Lake Lahontan was actually above the position of the petroglyphs....
24 Oct Hidden Cave
At Grimes Point, Hidden Cave was an important seasonal hunting lodge for prehistoric Native Americans who lived off the rich bounty from the lake below, which is now a desert playa....
10 Oct Pictograph Ledge
The rock art sites around the Las Vegas Valley were located along prehistoric game trails leading to water holes, near hunting blinds, or in narrow gorges where game could be ambushed. ...
06 Oct Toquima Cave
Toquima Cave, located in the mountains east of Austin, was used for religious purposes by Native Americans for thousands of years. The pictographs in the cave are unique to the region....
05 Oct Spirit Cave
Spirit Cave is found high up in the desert hills north of Grimes Point, some 75 miles east of Reno. During excavations in 1940 the Spirit Cave Mummy was discovered....