Program

Public Programs: Special Projects

Period of Performance

10/1/1972 - 9/30/1973

Funding Totals

$29,960.00 (approved)
$29,960.00 (awarded)


People's Archeology in Nevada

FAIN: GP-10151-72

University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV 89154-9900)
Sheilagh Brooks (Project Director: October 1972 to present)

This project calls for developing a public education program in the state of Nevada to alert people to the "urgency" of protecting and preserving historic and prehistoric sites. Historians, political scientists, anthropologists, and archaeologists will undertake a program consisting of lectures, field trips, workshops in cataloging and excavations, etc.