Comments on: Death Valley National Park-The hottest and driest of the national parks in the United States http://www.wayfaring.info/2007/04/05/death-valley-national-park-the-hottest-and-driest-of-the-national-parks-in-the-united-states/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=death-valley-national-park-the-hottest-and-driest-of-the-national-parks-in-the-united-states Experience what real Travel means Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dr. K http://www.wayfaring.info/2007/04/05/death-valley-national-park-the-hottest-and-driest-of-the-national-parks-in-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-182440 Dr. K Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:24:56 +0000 http://www.wayfaring.info/2007/04/05/death-valley-national-park-the-hottest-and-driest-of-the-national-parks-in-the-united-states/#comment-182440 Death Valley was never actually *home* to the Timbisha Shoshone, in the sense one usually means. It was part of an enormous territory they used for foraging - but the archaeology of the area shows they mainly made forays into the park during late fall/early winter - for seasonal foods. Mostly they stayed in the hills and mountains - they didn't actually live in Death Valley. No aboriginal people were able to find a way to actually live there. Quick visits, probably lasting no more than 1-2 weeks at a time, sometimes only parties of fit males for rabbit hunting (again at the park periphery). Death Valley was never actually *home* to the Timbisha Shoshone, in the sense one usually means. It was part of an enormous territory they used for foraging – but the archaeology of the area shows they mainly made forays into the park during late fall/early winter – for seasonal foods. Mostly they stayed in the hills and mountains – they didn’t actually live in Death Valley.

No aboriginal people were able to find a way to actually live there. Quick visits, probably lasting no more than 1-2 weeks at a time, sometimes only parties of fit males for rabbit hunting (again at the park periphery).

]]> By: Dr. K http://www.wayfaring.info/2007/04/05/death-valley-national-park-the-hottest-and-driest-of-the-national-parks-in-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-191287 Dr. K Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:24:00 +0000 http://www.wayfaring.info/2007/04/05/death-valley-national-park-the-hottest-and-driest-of-the-national-parks-in-the-united-states/#comment-191287 Death Valley was never actually *home* to the Timbisha Shoshone, in the sense one usually means. It was part of an enormous territory they used for foraging - but the archaeology of the area shows they mainly made forays into the park during late fall/early winter - for seasonal foods. Mostly they stayed in the hills and mountains - they didn't actually live in Death Valley. No aboriginal people were able to find a way to actually live there. Quick visits, probably lasting no more than 1-2 weeks at a time, sometimes only parties of fit males for rabbit hunting (again at the park periphery). Death Valley was never actually *home* to the Timbisha Shoshone, in the sense one usually means. It was part of an enormous territory they used for foraging – but the archaeology of the area shows they mainly made forays into the park during late fall/early winter – for seasonal foods. Mostly they stayed in the hills and mountains – they didn’t actually live in Death Valley.

No aboriginal people were able to find a way to actually live there. Quick visits, probably lasting no more than 1-2 weeks at a time, sometimes only parties of fit males for rabbit hunting (again at the park periphery).

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