Dry Lake 2
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| All three shelters at this site showed signs of habitation, but the main shelter had the greatest history. Test excavations in 1976 yielded Puebloan, Paiute, and Patayan ceramics dating as old as 845 B.C. Found along with the ceramics were, bone, lithic materials, fiber, and shell remains. |
| The gas tanks, the five gallon metal bucket, and the screen were found together in a dry wash when we were trying to locate the shelter above. The screen is what we found interesting because it's an older version of the type used in searching for placer gold. This type of screen is called a "classifier screen". It's constructed with three layers of screen with the largest mesh (usually 1/2") at the top and the smallest mesh (usually 1/8") at the bottom. In photo three you can see how the rocks were sorted by nature when water ran through the area. Even though this type of screen was normally used when prospecting for placer gold, it could have been used for illegal screening of artifacts. There was nothing in the area where the screen and tanks were found that would tell us if it was used by a hopeful gold hunter or an artifact seeker. |
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