Central Coast California prehistory
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Recent papers in Central Coast California prehistory
The Late Period (700 B.P. to Spanish contact) archaeological record of the central California coast provides opportunities to evaluate models of hunter-gatherer-fisher land use. Along the San Simeon Reef region in northern San Luis Obispo... more
This report presents the results of the burial and archaeological data recovery program conducted within a portion of site CA-SCL-128 [Thámien Rúmmeytak [Thámien (Guadalupe) River Site], a Late Middle Period-to-Late Period Ancestral... more
Author(s): Nims, Reno; Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane; Hylkema, Mark; Potenzone, Kara | Abstract: Excavations of the Bonny Doon site (CA-SCR-9) in the Santa Cruz Mountains of northern Santa Cruz County, California by Hylkema in the late 1980s... more
Este texto es parte de un trabajo multilocal realizado por investigadores en Canadá, México y Estados Unidos y aborda la experiencia de inmigrantes empresariales en comunidades de la Costa Central en el estado de California. Después de... more
Abstract The Chumash Indians produced shell beads for thousands of years in the Santa Barbara Channel region, with special bead-manufacturing sites well-documented. Archaeologists specializing in this region have suggested that shell bead... more
ABSTRACT This report summarizes the results of the burial recovery program conducted on a portion of a pre-contact Ohlone Indian cemetery discovered at sites CA-SCL-287 and CA-SMA-263 renamed collectively by the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe as... more
Author(s): Nims, Reno; Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane; Hylkema, Mark; Potenzone, Kara | Abstract: Excavations of the Bonny Doon site (CA-SCR-9) in the Santa Cruz Mountains of northern Santa Cruz County, California by Hylkema in the late 1980s... more