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.

“Wells and Seelinger have done a remarkable job in producing one of the most thorough and authoritative accounts of historical-period archaeology in the Great Basin.”—David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural History

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgments1. Environmental, Ethnographic, and Historic Context2. Investigating the Pottery Hill Site3. Historic Period Houses in Grass Valley and the Great Basin4. Investigation of Pottery Hill 2 Houses5. Exterior Hearths6. House and Hearth Clusters and Activity Areas7. Classification and Description of Euro-American Artifacts from the Pottery Hill Grid8. The Chronology of the Shoshone Occupation at Pottery Hill9. Summary and Interpretations of Pottery Hill and the Grass Valley Historic PeriodAppendix A. Buttons from Pottery Hill, by T. Beth SnyderAppendix B. Fauna from Exterior Hearths at Pottery Hill, by Bryan HockettReferences

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.

“Wells and Seelinger have done a remarkable job in producing one of the most thorough and authoritative accounts of historical-period archaeology in the Great Basin.”—David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural History

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgments1. Environmental, Ethnographic, and Historic Context2. Investigating the Pottery Hill Site3. Historic Period Houses in Grass Valley and the Great Basin4. Investigation of Pottery Hill 2 Houses5. Exterior Hearths6. House and Hearth Clusters and Activity Areas7. Classification and Description of Euro-American Artifacts from the Pottery Hill Grid8. The Chronology of the Shoshone Occupation at Pottery Hill9. Summary and Interpretations of Pottery Hill and the Grass Valley Historic PeriodAppendix A. Buttons from Pottery Hill, by T. Beth SnyderAppendix B. Fauna from Exterior Hearths at Pottery Hill, by Bryan HockettReferences