Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology

This paper presents a description and analysis of an obsidian fluted point recently discovered within the bounds of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) in southern Nevada. Analyses include physical and technological descriptions of the point and source analysis of the obsidian from which it is made. These analyses are followed by a discussion of the typological attribution of the point based on a recent comparison by Beck et al. (2019) of 462 Far Western fluted points with 95 Clovis points from the Southwest, Plains, and Northwest. We conclude with a discussion of where the NTTR point fits in the regionís prehistory, and what its raw material source suggests about population mobility during the terminal Pleistocene.