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Regarding J. C. Jones' Date for Lake Lahontan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Ernst Antevs
Ernst Antevs*
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Mr. Alex D. Krieger's (pp. 355, 359) reference to the late J C. Jones’ date for Lake Lahontan calls for some clarifying comments. Lake Lahontan, the ancient lake in northr western Nevada which occupied 8500 square miles and reached several hundred feet above the modern lakes in its basin, Professor Jones believed, was not, as generally held, contemporaneous with the extensive Pleistocene glaciations in the adjacent mountains,1 but “the Lahontan stages occurred during the present era, with the survival of the fauna till the last thousand years” (1933, p. 96). The extinct fauna referred to included horses, elephants, camels, and Felis atrox (1925, p. 49; 1929, p. 539). Jones (1925, p. 4) did not correlate Lake Lahontan with other ancient lakes in the Great Basin, did not discuss their relationship, and objected to my introducing the obvious sister-lake in western Utah, Lake Bonneville, into the discussion.

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American Antiquity , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , October 1944 , pp. 211
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1944

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References

1 J C. Jones, The Geologic History oj Lake Lahontan, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication No. 352, 1925, pp. 1-50.

J C. Jones, “Age of Lake Lahontan,” Bulletin of Pie Geological Society of America, Vol. 40, 1929, pp. 533-540.

J C. Jones and V. P. Gianella, “Reno and Vicinity,” XVI International Geological Congress, Guidebook 16, pp. 96-102, Washington, 1933.

2 Ernst Antevs, “Pluvial and Postpluvial Fluctuations of Climate in the Southwest,” Carnegie Institution of Washington Year Book, No. 35,1936, pp. 322,323.

3 Ernst Antevs, On the Pleistocene History of the Great Basin, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication No. 352, 1925, pp. 51-114. See pp. 76, 102.

Ellsworth Huntington, Tree Growth and Climatic Interpretations, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication No. 352, pp. 155-204. See pp. 197-199.

4 Ernst Antevs, Age of the Cochise Culture Stages, Medallion Papers No. 29, pp. 31-56, Gila Pueblo, Globe, Ariz., 1941. See p. 40.