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Nevada State Museum archaeology reports
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REPOST OF TBS CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, 1963 Most of July was.devoted to analysing the cordage from Falcon Hill and tending to correspondence. - Shorter period® were spent doing the following* ? Photography of fluted points from Nevada (took., pictures, made prints). Helped Bill Belknap in the photographing of Tule Springs items. tf,;'rote up sit® survey sheets for the survey did in the Star Peak area. Checked on.Nevada sites recorded by Ruth Biapson and mad® copies- for the Museum, giving her proper site numbers* I went to the? Laagberfc Bits (about 19 miles south, of - Carson- City) and.for two days, supervised special £ high school students attending the -University of. Nevada in the excavation of several pits at the site. A fair number of artifacts were recovered (mainly projectile points-, some maaoa) .for the museum*® collections. Eventually the materials collected''from the site (the site was dug last year by a similar,group of' high school students) and materials gathered in years, to com© will ail oe written'up' into a report. -The site ©overs a -great area -and will taka some time before a good, -adequate sample is made. AVT-.-f •- . , , . ? " f-:.;-..;/.: A classifieatory Outline .for detailed.descriptive analysis of-twined and eoildd basketry .was made up. A talk, on Nevada archaeology was given at'a meeting of , IS Reno Liovn, ’? s<; mCl unbV, - A start was: made in.;, the reorganisation of basketry ? collection. museum i a