Willow Beach, Arizona

Willow Beach is located on the Arizona side of the Colorado River between Lake Mead and Lake Mohave. Both lakes are part of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area administered by the U.S. National Park Service.

Willow Beach was a major trade center for Mojave and Virgin Ancestral Pueblo people along the routes between Coastal California and the American Southwest between 500 and 1200 CE.^[1]

^ William Hoyt Smith, “Molluskan Religiofauna Between the Southwestern United States and Southern California” (doctoral dissertation, University of Oregon, 2002), 23.

[1] William Hoyt Smith, “Molluskan Religiofauna Between the Southwestern United States and Southern California” (doctoral dissertation, University of Oregon, 2002), 23.

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