The 10,600-Year-Old Man Found In Nevada — And The DNA Discovery That Changed The Story Of The First Americans
The marshes that provided fish and waterfowl are largely gone.
The specific ecological richness that characterized the Lahontan Basin during the early Holocene — the richness that sustained the population of which the Spirit Cave Man was part — has been replaced by the desert that most people associate with Nevada today.
But the people who descended from the early Holocene inhabitants of the region are not gone.
The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe is still here.
Their traditional territory is still the landscape around Spirit Cave.
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