Early Holocene Landscape Archaeology in the Coso Basin, Northwestern Mojave Desert, California

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-112
Author(s):  
Jelmer W. Eerkens ◽  
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal ◽  
D. Craig Young ◽  
Jay King
Keyword(s):  
Mojave Desert ◽  
Landscape Archaeology ◽  
Early Holocene

Late Wisconsin Macrofossil Records of Desert Vegetation in the American Southwest

1983 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Geoffrey Spaulding
Keyword(s):  
Sonoran Desert ◽  
Mojave Desert ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Desert Vegetation ◽  
Middle Holocene ◽  
Vegetation Mosaic ◽  
Desert Scrub

AbstractUntil recently, the oldest-known packrat (Neotoma spp.) midden records of desert scrub vegetation were less than 10,500 yr old and were restricted to altitudes below 300 m in the northern Sonoran Desert. Recent discovery of macrofossil assemblages in the Mojave Desert extends the record of desert vegetation back to 14,800 yr ago and to altitudes as high as 910 m. Although xerophytic conifer woodland was widespread in current desert habitats during the Late Wisconsin and early Holocene, the development of extensive desert vegetation was not delayed until the beginning of the middle Holocene. A regional vegetation mosaic of desert scrub and woodland existed at altitudes below 1000 m in the Mojave Desert during the last part of the Late Wisconsin.

Modeling Soil Moisture in the Mojave Desert

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Miller ◽  
Debra Hughson ◽  
Kevin M. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Mojave Desert
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