The location of the Great Basin and Plateau region allowed the tribes living there to develop a trade network with Native American groups from other regions.

Typically, more than 70 percent of the food supply was vegetal. More than 200 species of plants were named and used, principally seed and root plants.

The American Indians of the Great Basin culture area lived in the desert region that reaches from the Rocky Mountains west to the Sierra Nevada.

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In the early historical period the Great Basin tribes were actively expanding to the north and east, where they developed a horse-riding bison-hunting culture. ... Great Basin peoples · Shoshone · Ute · History Не найдено: fun | Нужно включить: fun

Great Basin families were typically nuclear families or "kin cliques". They generally consisted of a man, a woman, and their children. Other family members were ...

They were skilled at irrigation for farming and grew corn, squash, melons, and sunflowers. The men were the primary hunters of waterfowl, rabbits, bighorn sheep ...

The rare Great Basin bristlecone pine grows in isolated groves near the tree line, where it can survive for 4,000 years or more under extremely harsh conditions ...

Its lowland perennial streams and marshes provided various water fowl, such as ducks and mud hens, and eggs. Small game consisted of jack rabbits primarily with ...