Winnemucca Lake bed, blue lake to the left is Pyramid LakePetroglyph site 26 Wa 3329, with some of the oldest known petroglyphs in the AmericasDetail of Petroglyphs – the carvings can be dated because they were covered by tufa layers, after the water level rose above them
Winnemucca Lake is a dry lake bed in northwest Nevada that features the oldest known petroglyphs in North America. Located astride the border between Washoe and Pershing counties,[1] it was a shallow lake until the 1930s, but was dried when a dam and a road were built that combined to restrict and block water flow. It was formerly designated as a National Wildlife Refuge, but its status as a refuge was removed due to the lack of water.
Winnemucca Lake is home to several petroglyphs long believed to be very old. In 2013, researchers dated the carvings to between 14,800 and 10,500 years ago. Either date would make them the oldest known petroglyphs found in North America. The carvings lie within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation.
Note: There is another lake, having the same name of "Winnemucca Lake" in California, near the Carson pass (coordinates: 38°40'10.80"N, 119°59'36.59"W, google map link: https://goo.gl/maps/79RHE2cNwEwNC2WB9).
^U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Winnemucca Lake
WinnemuccaLake is a dry lake bed in northwest Nevada that features the oldest known petroglyphs in North America. Located astride the border between...
Winnemucca can refer to: Winnemucca, Nevada Winnemucca Indian Colony, a reservation in Nevada WinnemuccaLake, a dry lake bed in Nevada Winnemucca Indian...
Lake to WinnemuccaLake. To the northwest is the San Emido Desert with the Fox Range beyond. To the east, WinnemuccaLake separates the Lake Range from...
remnants existing as true lakes are Pyramid Lake and Walker Lake. WinnemuccaLake has been dry since the 1930s and Honey Lake periodically desiccates....
spelled Tocmetone, which translates as "Shell Flower." Sarah Winnemucca was born near Humboldt Lake, Nevada, into an influential Northern Paiute family who...
during the Snake War in northwest Nevada Territory, at present-day WinnemuccaLake, Nevada, during the closing months of the concurrent American Civil...
Reclamation Act of 1902. As a result of the diversion, WinnemuccaLake lost inflow and dried up, and Pyramid Lake lost more than 80 feet (24 m) in elevation, resulting...
scenes on the site. Additional scenes were filmed at Reno, Nevada's WinnemuccaLake and California's Inyo National Forest. The film was completed in six...
reservation's area. The reservation also includes a sliver of WinnemuccaLake, most of the Lake Range, portions of the Virginia Mountains and Pah Rah Range...
238 ft) which is 1,353 m (4,439 ft) above the elevation of the dry WinnemuccaLake bed at about 1,158 m (3,799 ft). The site of Nightingale and its large...
In the Sierra Nevada, wolverines were sighted near WinnemuccaLake in spring 1995 and at Toe Jam Lake north of the Yosemite border in 1996; and later photographed...
petroglyphs in North America are in the Great Basin. Near the banks of WinnemuccaLake in Nevada, this rock art dates between 10,500 and 14,800 years ago...
Springs, Wyoming White Tank Mountain Regional Park, Waddell, Arizona WinnemuccaLake, Nevada Writing Rock State Historical Site, North Dakota Monolyth at...
technology for hunting. Elsewhere in North America, the Petroglyphs at WinnemuccaLake, in what is today northwest Nevada, were carved by this time, possibly...
petroglyphs in North America are in the Great Basin. Near the banks of WinnemuccaLake in Nevada, this rock art dates between 10,500 and 14,800 years ago...
of an encampment of cattle thieves beside Mud Lake, also called WinnemuccaLake, near to Pyramid Lake. Before dawn on 14 March 1865, the contingent opened...
Back, with WinnemuccaLake Elephants Back (left) and Round Top (right) North aspect of Elephants Back rises above Carson Pass WinnemuccaLake, Elephants...
Conservation Area Tim Springs Petroglyphs Valley of Fire State Park WinnemuccaLake Crow Canyon Archaeological District El Morro National Monument Petroglyph...
Piauí, in northeastern Brazil. 12,800–8,500 BCE: Artists etch the WinnemuccaLake petroglyphs, near Reno, Nevada. 11,000 BCE: Megafauna bone etched with...
Winnemucca station is an Amtrak train station in Winnemucca, Nevada. It is served by one daily train in each direction on the California Zephyr. The Central...
it adjoins the watersheds of the South Yuba and Truckee Rivers, to WinnemuccaLake in the Mokelumne Wilderness, where it meets the watersheds of the Mokelumne...
II. The highway continues north following the western edge of WinnemuccaLake, a dry lake that once also was the terminus of the Truckee river. During...
encountering the Smoke Creek Paiutes at Mud Lake (now WinnemuccaLake) on 14 March became a battle (see "Battle of Mud Lake"). Though only one man was wounded...
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