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The Great Basin: Lovelock Cave, Nevada
Lovelock Cave was the first major Great Basin site to be excavated. Unfortunately, this collecting came in response to extensive mining of bat guano and was done without much method. Upon hearing of the important artifacts being uncovered, Alfred Kroeber sent out museum preparator Llewellyn L. Loud to the site in 1912. Loud returned after five months with about 10,000 objects. The site (NV-Ch-18), a large rockshelter and cave near a Pleistocene lake, seems to have been occupied for over 4,000 years (ca. 2600 B.C.-1850 A.D.). Among the many superbly preserved organic objects were the duck and goose decoys (ca. 2000 years old), used for hunting in what was once a rich marsh. All the items from Lovelock displayed here were collected by Loud in 1912.
Entrance to Lovelock Cave. Photograph by L. L. Loud, 1912 (15-5476).
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