Great Basin culture area

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Native North American cultural region culture area

The Great Basin culture area is a Native North American cultural region encompassing the arid interior basin between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains, traditionally inhabited by Numic-speaking and other Indigenous peoples who adapted to a harsh desert environment.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Great Basin culture area canonical 5
Great Basin cultural area 3

Statements (66)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native North American cultural region ⓘ
culture area ⓘ
affectedBy Euro-American colonization in the 19th century ⓘ
introduction of the horse in the 18th century ⓘ
archaeologicalTradition Desert Archaic NERFINISHED ⓘ
boundedBy Rocky Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sierra Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ
characterizedBy desert basins and ranges ⓘ
high environmental variability ⓘ
internal drainage with no outlet to the ocean ⓘ
sagebrush steppe vegetation ⓘ
scarce and unpredictable rainfall ⓘ
classifiedBy Alfred L. Kroeber NERFINISHED ⓘ
Julian Steward NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCulturalAdaptation desert hunter-gatherer adaptation ⓘ
logistical mobility between resource patches ⓘ
hasEnvironment arid ⓘ
semiarid ⓘ
includesNonNumicLanguages Kawaiisu language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Washoe language NERFINISHED ⓘ
includesPart Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ
Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ
eastern California NERFINISHED ⓘ
northern Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ
southern Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ
southern Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ
western Wyoming ⓘ
knownFor flexible social organization ⓘ
high mobility of inhabitants ⓘ
intensive knowledge of local ecology ⓘ
languageFamily Numic ⓘ
Uto-Aztecan NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedIn North America ⓘ
western United States ⓘ
surface form: Western United States

interior drainage basin of North America ⓘ
religiousPractices myths and narratives tied to landscape features ⓘ
shamanism ⓘ
vision quests ⓘ
studiedIn anthropology ⓘ
archaeology ⓘ
timeDepth inhabited for thousands of years before European contact ⓘ
traditionalHousing brush shelters ⓘ
semi-subterranean houses ⓘ
wickiups ⓘ
traditionalInhabitants Bannock NERFINISHED ⓘ
Chemehuevi NERFINISHED ⓘ
Goshute NERFINISHED ⓘ
Kawaiisu NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mono NERFINISHED ⓘ
Northern Paiute NERFINISHED ⓘ
Numic-speaking peoples ⓘ
Owens Valley Paiute NERFINISHED ⓘ
Panamint NERFINISHED ⓘ
Shoshone NERFINISHED ⓘ
Southern Paiute NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ute NERFINISHED ⓘ
Washoe NERFINISHED ⓘ
traditionalSettlementPattern seasonal camps ⓘ
small mobile bands ⓘ
traditionalSubsistence antelope hunting ⓘ
hunting and gathering ⓘ
piñon nut harvesting ⓘ
rabbit drives ⓘ
seed collecting ⓘ
small game hunting ⓘ
wild plant gathering ⓘ

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Plateau culture area → borders → Great Basin culture area ⓘ
Numic peoples → culturalRegion → Great Basin culture area ⓘ
Petroglyphs of Coso Rock Art District (on NAWS China Lake) → associatedWith → Great Basin culture area ⓘ
this entity surface form: Great Basin cultural area
Goshute → culturalRegion → Great Basin culture area ⓘ
Northern Paiute → hasCulturalRegion → Great Basin culture area ⓘ
Lemhi Shoshone → partOf → Great Basin culture area ⓘ
this entity surface form: Great Basin cultural area
Great Basin linguistic area → overlapsWith → Great Basin culture area ⓘ
this entity surface form: Great Basin cultural area
Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California → culturalArea → Great Basin culture area ⓘ