Nevada
A small number of shield bearing figures are found in southern Nevada, primarily in the Lake Mead/Clark County area. These figures represent the westernmost distribution of shield bearers in the dataset. High concentrations of rock art surrounding these locations like Atlatl Rock and Grapevine Canyon suggest that other, unpublished shield bearers may also occur in southern Nevada. These figures are geographically isolated from eastern shield figures due to the lack of published examples in southwestern Utah. As further research becomes available, I suspect that shield figures will extend from southern Nevada into western Utah and Arizona. To date only 3 shield figures are currently listed in this database, each frtom a different site. A fourth shield bearer is currently in the process of being included in the dataset. If you have any information or are aware of any other shield figures from Nevada, I'd love to hear about them.
Database Number: NV-1
Site Number: 26LN2561
Site Name: Whitmore Mine Rd.
County: Lincoln
Method: Pecked on Limestone
Size: 40 cm tall; 20 cm shield diameter
Sources: (Green 1987:125); (Stoney 1992:61).
Keywords: spiral, circle, knees, feet
Comments: Green (1987) places this figure within the Cave Valley Style.
Database Number: NV-2
Site Number: Unknown
Site Name: Big Dune, Arrow Canyon
County: Unknown
Method: Pecked on Limestone
Size: 90 cm tall
Sources: (Green 1987:131); (Stoney 1992:61).
Keywords: horizontal, vertical, feet
Comments:
Database Number: NV-3
Site Number: Unknown
Site Name: Grapevine Canyon
County: Unknown
Method: Pecked and grovved on Granite
Size: Unknown
Sources: (Green 1987:134); (Stoney 1992:61).
Keywords: feet
Comments:
Sources
Green, Eileen
1987 A Cultural Ecological Approach to the Rock Art of Souther Nevada. Upublished MA thesis, department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Green, Eileen
1998 The Shield Motif: Arrow Canyon, Southern Nevada-Chalfant Canyon, California. Southern Nevada Rock Art Enthusiasts Newsletter 6(4): 8.

Stoney, Stephen A.
1992 Anthropomorphic Symbolism in Southern Nevada: A Study in Cultural Diversity. Rock Art Papers 9: 57-66.
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