In the Shadow of the Steamboat

Geoffrey Smith is Regents' Professor and executive director of the Great Basin Paleoindian Research Unit in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has worked in the American West for more than two decades and has authored more than fifty journal articles and book chapters.

"The book presents a trove of well-collected data, up-to-date techniques, and valley-focused synthesis. It is a truly multidisciplinary effort with advanced practitioners and talented students. As a reader, I benefitted from clear organization, clear questions, and logical sequence." --D. Craig Young, principal investigator and director of cultural resources consulting and research, Far Western Anthropological Research Inc., Great Basin Branch, Nevada "In the tradition of longer-term research in the Fort Rock Basin to the west and Steens Mountain to the east, [this study] serves to address a poorly documented area between these preceding efforts. The information on the Lake Warner lake level history, the nature of the early LSPl occupations, and the evidence for large-scale rabbit drives are especially notable... An excellent and important study." --Thomas Connolly, archaeological research director, University of Oregon Museum of Natural & Cultural History