Archeological Explorations in Southern Nevada: Report of the First Sessions Expedition 1929

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Authors: Harrington, M.R. (Mark Raymond) (1882-1971)– Introduction and Paiute Cave

Hayden, Irwin (1881-1969)–Mesa House

Schellbach, Louis III  (1887-1971)–An Unusual Burial in Mesa House Ruin

Publisher: Southwest Museum

Pub Date: 1970 (reprint edition)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Southwest Museum Papers Number 4.  Reprint of the original 1929 report on explorations in the Moapa Valley, on the Moapa (Muddy) River, a tributary of the Virgin River.  “Not too large, yet sufficient in volume to yield all the water needed; with low banks, making it easy to furn the water into ditches with the crudest of brush dams; abundant level land, most of it unusually fertile–high level of ground water; the stream and its valley were well nigh perfect from the aboriginal farmer’s viewpoint.  Consequently we find an almost unbroken line of ancient villages of various period from the Muddy’s junction with the Virgin to the large springs forming its source some 30 miles to the north.  In the lower 16 miles of its course alone there have been discovered no fewer than 77 distinct ancient sites, and from all indications a proportionate number will be found in the upper 14 miles when we are able to investigate fully….two projects we completed during the field season.  These two projects were the excavation of the Mesa House ruin and of a small cavern known as Paiute Cave, both situated near Overton, Nevada” (Page 6).  Irwin Hayden was the father of Julian Hayden.