North America’s Oldest Dated Petroglyphs at Winnemucca Lake, Nevada
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Mon, 10/12/2015 - 1:05pm
Event Date:
October 22, 2015 - 6:30pm Gene Hattori, Curator of Anthropology, will present a Frances Humphreys Lecture on petroglyphs from Winnemucca Lake, Nevada that date to between 10,500 and 14,800 years in age. The lecture is Thursday, Oct. 22, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City.
These unusual petroglyphs were known by many residents and researchers, but their age was a mystery until recently. A rare set of circumstances allowed Dr. Larry Benson, a geochemist with the USGS and University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, to bracket the petroglyphs’ age to the final fluctuations of Ice Age Lake Lahontan. Hattori will review this research and comparisons of this site with another early, dated petroglyph site in south central Oregon.
Eugene M. Hattori has been Curator of Anthropology at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City, Nevada since 1999. He was born in Yerington and raised in Sparks. Gene graduated with a Bachelor of Sciences in zoology from the University of Nevada Reno and went on for his M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. He is an archaeologist specializing in historic and prehistoric archaeology of Nevada and surrounding regions.
Admission: $8 for adults; free for museum members and ages 17 and under. Location: 600 N. Carson Street, Carson City. Call 775-687-4810, at ext. 237.
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