Helen Fairman Wells participated in three seasons of the Grass Valley Archaeological Project in central Nevada, and her dissertation research addressed prehistoric and historic use of the pinyon zone in the mountains bordering Grass Valley. After a long career in cultural resource management, primarily in the Great Basin and California, she taught at California State University, Los Angeles, and has been conducting archaeological research in the Mojave Desert region of California since the early 2000s. Evelyn Seelinger is an archaeologist who worked primarily in the Great Basin and managed collections and data for the Nevada State Museum and archaeological data for the Utah Division of State History. She was involved in six seasons of the Grass Valley Archaeological Project.
* List of Figures
* List of Tables
* Acknowledgments
* 1. Environmental, Ethnographic, and Historic Context
* 2. Investigating the Pottery Hill Site
* 3. Historic Period Houses in Grass Valley and the Great Basin
* 4. Investigation of Pottery Hill 2 Houses
* 5. Exterior Hearths
* 6. House and Hearth Clusters and Activity Areas
* 7. Classification and Description of Euro-American Artifacts from the
Pottery Hill Grid
* 8. The Chronology of the Shoshone Occupation at Pottery Hill
* 9. Summary and Interpretations of Pottery Hill and the Grass Valley
Historic Period
* Appendix A. Buttons from Pottery Hill, by T. Beth Snyder
* Appendix B. Fauna from Exterior Hearths at Pottery Hill, by Bryan
Hockett
* References
