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Pueblo Grande de Nevada

Pueblo Grande de Nevada

Pueblo Grande de Nevada Overview

Several hundred ancient pithouses, campsites, rock shelters, salt mines, and caves of ancestral Puebloan people make up what is commonly known as “Lost City.”

Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam, flooded the most intensively developed portion of Lost City.

Category

  • Architecture
  • Native American

Marker Type

Blue marker

Nevada Historical Marker Number

Pueblo Grande de Nevada is Nevada Historical Marker #41.

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County

Clark County, Nevada

GPS Coordinates

36.518001, -114.426315

Nevada Historical Marker Transcription

Indians of a highly-developed civilization lived throughout Moapa valley from 300-1100 A.D. several hundred ancient pithouses, campsites, rockshelters, salt mines and caves of  ancestral Puebloan people make up what is commonly known as “Lost City.”  These people cultivated corn, beans, and squash in fields irrigated by river water.  They also gathered wild seeds and fruits and hunted widely for deer, antelope, desert bighorn sheep, small mammals, and birds.  They wove fine cotton cloth, fired beautifully painted and textured pottery, and mined and traded salt and turquoise to coastal tribes for seashells.  Early dwellings were circular pithouses below ground.  Later dwellings above ground were single storey adobes having up to 100 rooms.

Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam, flooded the most intensively developed portion of lost city.

STATE HISTORICAL MARKER NO.  41

NEVADA STATE PARK SYSTEM

MOAPA VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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