Danger Cave is a cluster of dry caves in the Great Salt Lakes region which contain remains spanning most of the postglacial time. Danger Cave is located near Wendover, Nevada, in the eastern Great Basin. The earliest level at Danger Cave, carbon-14 dated to 11,000 BP, gives only scant evidence of human presence, but after 9000 BP it offers rich records of human activity.
Jesse D. Jennings Sr. is credited with determining for the first time that humans occupied this part of North America, based on his investigations in the cave. Evidence in the strata of the cave shows that hunter-gatherers lived in the area as early as 10,000 BP, which is believed to be shortly after the extinction of the mammoth and saber tooth tiger. Relating the archaeological evidence from Danger Cave to an ethnographic model, Jennings framed a compelling view of a long-lived Great Basin Desert Culture. He also dated the Archaic Native American Culture to 11,000 BP in Danger Cave.
Some of the lithic artifacts found in Danger Cave were different types of projectile points, scrapers, gravers, knives, and drills. Other artifacts that were excavated were twined matting, twined basketry, course cloth, coiled basketry, hide moccasins, wooden knife handles, dart shafts, arrow shafts with broken projectile points in place, bundles of gaming sticks and milling stones.
Jennings, Jesse D. Ancient North Americans, 1983, pp. (169-171).