Panamint
Proper noun
Meaning
Panamint
the Numic language (Uto-Aztecan) spoken by the Timbisha people around Death Valley, California. Related to Shoshone and Comanche.
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About 1,400 million years ago a mass of granite now in the Panamint Range intruded this complex.
One-thousand years ago, the nomadic Timbisha (formerly called Shoshone and also known as Panamint or Koso) moved into the area and hunted game and gathered mesquite beans along with pinyon pine nuts.
After you pass the store, gas station, campground and restaurant at Panamint Springs drive 1 more mile and turn left onto a gravel road.
This location, combined with the great relief found within the Park, supports vegetation typical of three biotic life zones : the lower Sonoran, the Canadian, and the Arctic/Alpine in portions of the Panamint Range.
Mule deer are present in the pinyon/juniper associations of the Grapevine, Cottonwood, and Panamint ranges.
Pleistocene ice ages started 2 million years ago, and melt from alpine glaciers on the nearby Sierra Nevada Mountains fed a series of lakes that filled Death and Panamint valleys and surrounding basins (see the top of the timescale image ).