| Table 1: Generalized Owyhee River Chronology - adapted from Andrefsky and Presler 2000:16 |
| |
| Period Name | Phase Name | Ages |
| Ethnographic | Ethnographic | AD 1,850 |
| Expansion | 300 BP |
| Southern Snake River | Southern Snake River | 1,000 BP |
| | |
| Rosegate | 4,500 BP |
| Early Archaic | Uplands Camp | 6,000 BP |
| Paleoindian | Windust | 8,000 BP |
| | 11,000 BP |
| Table 2: Counts and Frequencies of features at archaeological sites in the Owyhee uplands. |
| All archaeological sites | 511 | 100% |
| Feature | Count | Frequency |
|---|
| Lithic Scatter | 481 | 94.1% |
| Lithic Tools | 201 | 39.3% |
| Rock shelter | 44 | 8.6% |
| Ground stone | 78 | 15.3% |
| Petroglyphs | 25 | 4.9% |
| Pictographs | 0 | 0% |
| Rock features | 24 | 4.7% |
| Pottery | 3 | .6% |
| Pit house | 1 | .2% |
| Woven items | 1 | .2% |
| Table 3: The occurrence of Heizer and Baumhoff's (1962) petroglyph styles at sixteen archaeological sites in the Owyhee Uplands. |
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| Smithsonian Number | Abstract | Representational | Pit and Grove | Scratched |
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| 35ML130 |
Yes |
|
Yes |
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| 35ML168 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| 35ML605 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
| 35ML688 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
| 35ML850 |
Yes |
|
|
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| 35ML992 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
| 35ML1044 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| 35ML1045 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| 35ML1046 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| 35ML1049 |
Yes |
|
|
|
| 35ML1050 |
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
| 35ML1051 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| 35ML1052 |
Yes |
|
|
|
| 35ML1053 |
Yes |
|
|
|
| 35ML1054 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
| 35ML1057 |
Yes |
Yes |
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