"... In this case, #41 might be better located at the Lost City Museum just up the road. I mean, this backdrop of willows, dried in the summer, green and lush in the winter, is still far from the most inspiring scene you can bag of the Anasazi culture! I don't say this about many markers, but something just seems missing here. Such an inspiring chapter in early Nevada history needs an equally inspiring backdrop." -- March 2009

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Along SR 169, 1.4 miles south of Overton Las Vegas & Clark County   36.525590, -114.433780

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Original Date Visited: 3/16/09
Last Confirmed: 11/16/22
Signed: Both lanes of SR 169

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Marker 41 represents a varied and interesting history in the region Marker 42 plaque The Lost City Museum in Overton contains some of the best exhibits of Anasazi anywhere in North America' The Lost City, once home to the Anasazi in Nevada

Exact Description:
Indians of a highly developed civilization lived throughout Moapa Valley from 300-1100 A.D. Several hundred ancient pithouses, campsites, rockshelters, salt mines and caves of Anasazi people make up what is commonly known as "Lost City." These people cultivated corn, beans and squash in fields irrigated by river water. They also gathered wild seeds and fruits and hunted widely for deer, antelope, desert bighorn sheep, small mammals and birds. They wove fine cotton cloth, fired beautifully painted and textured pottery and mined and traded salt and turquoise to coastal tribes for seashells. Early dwellings were circular pithouses below ground; later dwellings above ground were single-story adobes having up to 100 rooms.

Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam, flooded the most intensively developed portion of Lost City.

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