Alta Toquima Village Site (Nev.)

found: Work cat.: Thomas, D.H. The 1981 Alta Toquima Village project, 1982:leaf iv (Alta Toquima Village is located at an elevation of 11,000 ft and contains 31 rock structures; two major occupational components: pre-A.D. 1000 occupation was restricted to use as an all-male outpost for communal hunting; post-A.D. 1000 Yankee Blade phase occupation, full-blown residential base camp, serving as the summar and fall residence of entire Western Shoshone families) leaf 5 (Mount Jefferson Research Natural Area, Nye County, Nev.) leaf 19 (Alta Toquima Village site (26Ny920))

found: Friends of Nevada Wilderness Web site, June 11, 2006:Wilderness/Alta Toquima (Just below the summit of Mount Jefferson is Alta Toquima, the highest known Indian village in North America. The site, long abandoned, was discovered in 1978 by Dr. David Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History)

found: Public Lands Information Center Web site, June 11, 2006(Alta Toquima Wilderness, Nevada; 11,949-foot Mt. Jefferson is a collection of three summits on a ridge and is the site of highest known Indian village in North America)