Examining Site Functions and Relationships: The Value of Small Ridgeline Sites on Pimu/Catalina Island
Author(s): Karimah Kennedy Richardson; Hugh Radde; Wendy Teeter; Desiree Martinez
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Several decades of field reconnaissance have identified nearly one thousand archaeological sites on Catalina Island. The relationship between these coastal bluff villages, interior occupations, and smaller ridgeline sites are recognized via pathways, but not fully explored. In our efforts to better understand settlement patterns on this island the Pimu Catalina Island Archaeology Project (PCIAP) has developed a geographic spatial study to test the relationship between ancient occupations and the pathways along ridges that attest to human relationships on the landscape. Here we present findings from our excavations and survey of the coastal bluff sites at CA-LAN-3593, 3594, 3596 and recent radiocarbon assays. This analysis is a benchmark in our efforts towards a new synthesis and analysis of settlement patterns and subsistence practices on Catalina Island.
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Examining Site Functions and Relationships: The Value of Small Ridgeline Sites on Pimu/Catalina Island. Karimah Kennedy Richardson, Hugh Radde, Wendy Teeter, Desiree Martinez. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449853)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
North America: California and Great Basin
Spatial Coverage
min long: -124.189; min lat: 31.803 ; max long: -105.469; max lat: 43.58 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 26261