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Late Pleistocene to Holocene history of Lake Warner and its prehistoric occupations, Warner Valley, Oregon (USA)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2017

Teresa Wriston  and
Geoffrey M. Smith
Teresa Wriston*
Affiliation:
Desert Research Institute, 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, Nevada 89512, USA
Geoffrey M. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology (0096), University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., Reno, Nevada 89557, USA
*
*Corresponding author at: Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada. E-mail address: teresa.wriston@dri.edu (T. Wriston).
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Abstract

During the late Pleistocene, Warner Valley (Oregon, USA) was filled by Lake Warner; however, little is known about its rise and fall and how its changing lake levels effected the distribution of the valley’s earliest occupants. The discovery of Paleoindian projectile points along ancient shorelines of the lake spurred us to examine them for geochronological controls to aid in constructing the lake’s history. We found that Lake Warner filled the valley floor between ca. 30,000 and 10,300 cal yr BP, probably reaching its maximum ca. 17,000–16,100 cal yr BP before it began to recede. People arrived with Clovis and Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) projectile points before ca. 12,800 cal yr BP, around the time the lake stalled in its retreat. When the lake continued its decline, people using WST points followed it southward into the valley floor, where dune-and-slough topography began developing ca. 10,300 cal yr BP in response to episodic wetting and drying during the early Holocene. By the time Mazama tephra fell, ca. 7600 cal yr BP, the once large lake was divided into a series of small lakes, ponds, and sloughs that attracted people to their abundant resources of endemic fish and marsh plants.

Keywords

GeoarchaeologyFluted projectile pointsClovis projectile pointsWestern Stemmed projectile pointsGreat Basin Stemmed projectile pointsPaleolakesPluvial lakesNorthwestern Great BasinSouth-central Oregon
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Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 88 , Issue 3 , November 2017 , pp. 491 - 513
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Copyright © University of Washington. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2017 

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