Evaluating the impact of National Park Service landscape preservation policies on archaeological site formation : archaeology of the Nevada Camp (42WS4484)

Graduation date: 2007Between 1927 and 1930 the Nevada Contracting Company of Fallon, Nevada constructed the Zion Tunnel and a portion of the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway in Zion National Park, Utah. During the construction approximately 200 workers lived at the contractor's camp, known today as the Nevada Camp. This camp, a temporary work camp, was dismantled upon completion of the construction project and the site was cleaned to the National Park Service landscape preservation standards. Rules and standards set forth by the National Park Service subjected the Nevada Camp site to a substantial cultural transformation process. Research conducted at the Nevada Camp (site number 42WS4484) determined whether identifiable behavioral patterns existed archaeologically in temporary work camps that have been modified by such a\ud substantial cultural transformation processes and provide a base for evaluating the impact of activities such as site dismantling