Tunna Nossi’ Kaiva’ Gwaa
“The Place Where The Antelope Go To Dream” by
Morgan Hall and Parinita Kumari, University of California, Davis
Saturday, March 12, 2022
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. PST
University of California, Davis sponsors a field school at the site of Tunna’ Nossi’ Kaiva’ Gwaa in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest on the ancestral lands of the Numu (Northern Paiute) and Washoe tribes. In 2021, the focus of the field school was to collaborate with the Bridgeport Indian Colony in an effort to learn about an ancient communal hunting complex. This site is especially rich in surface lithics. The goal of the research is to study the evolution of cooperative hunting dynamics in the Great Basin through the examination of large-scale trap complexes and rock rings, which we identified using pedestrian surveys, surface mapping, site recording, and laboratory analysis. Both Morgan Hall and Parinita Kumari received scholarships to attend the school. They will relate their experiences at the site.
Morgan Hall is a senior at University of California, Davis majoring in Anthropology and a 2021 SAS scholarship recipient. She has been an officer in the UC Davis Anthropology Club and hopes to pursue a career in Cultural resource management.
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Parinita Kumari is a senior at University of California, Davis majoring in Evolutionary Anthropology and a 2021 SAS scholarship recipient. Her senior honors thesis involves the analysis of projectile point type distributions to determine whether or not biodiversity is a driver of cultural diversity.