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Nez Perce Snake River Archaeological District

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NRHP Reference #
  
78001086

Added to NRHP
  
22 December 1978

Area
  
14.16 kmĀ²

Nearest city
  
Lewiston

The Nez Perce Snake River Archaeological District is a 3,500-acre (1,400 ha) archaeological district located in Nez Perce County, Idaho, and Asotin County, Washington, and centered on the Snake River, which divides the two states. The district includes a number of sites inhabited by the Nez Perce people, who used the area as a fishing ground and a winter campsite. Settlement in the district stretches from roughly 6000 B.C. to the 20th century A.D. Several hundred pictographs are part of the district, usually painted at village sites.

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978.

References

Nez Perce Snake River Archaeological District Wikipedia