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DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas W. McKern.

The data on skeletal materials from the vicinity of Santa Barbara, California, including the islands of San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, have appeared periodically in anthropometric studies of the California Indians. The following pages are concerned with the description of skeletal material from a prehistoric group of California Indians. The skeletons which form the subject of this report were the result of two summers (1927, 1928) archaeological work on the island of Santa Cruz in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew A. Russell.

Between 1993 and 1999, the National Park Service's Submerged Resources Center worked with Channel Islands National Park to investigate three historical shipwreck sites on San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands likely to be the Pacific Coast lumber schooners J. M. Colman, Dora Bluhm and Comet. This publication presents results of those investigations and demonstrates the feasibility and historical and scientific value of rigorous study of scattered, beached shipwreck sites. which have often been...

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This document is the archaeological site record for CA-SBA-4309. The record consists of 5 recordation events starting on 5 March 1971 with subsequent recordations on 3 September 2010, 22 March 2023, January 2024, and most recently October 2024. The site was originally recorded as the multi-component site CA-SBA-658/H. The prehistoric component was separated from the historic component and received the trinomial CA-SBA-4309.

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This document is the archaeological site record for CA-SBA-540.The record consists of 3 recordation events.

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This document is the archaeological site record for CA-SBA-713. This record consists of 3 recordation events.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Don P. Morris. James Lima.

This report gathers together historical and archeological information on vessels that wrecked within the boundaries of Channel Islands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary before 1980, when the two preserves were established off the southern coast of California. It summarizes, as well, a series of archeological investigations of wreck scatters in this area that began in the early 1980s with Dan Lenihan's dives on the Winfield Scott and continued after 1985 under the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew A. Russell.

In April 1999, Channel Islands National Park Archeologist Don Morris asked the National Park Service’s Submerged Resources Center (SRC) to lead documentation efforts on the remains of the schooner Comet, exposed on the beach in Simonton Cove, San Miguel Island. Comet had been exposed by winter storms, the first recorded exposure since 1984. SRC archeologists, park staff and volunteers, spent five days documenting Comet’s remains with scale drawings, photos and video. The team found one of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Grant Snitker. Francis McManamon.

The Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) digital archive, “Vandenberg Air Force Base Archaeology and Cultural Resource Archive - Documents, Images, and other Data,” was created by the Center for Digital Antiquity (Digital Antiquity) in tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record). Funding for the project was provided by United States Air Force (USAF) Civil Engineer Center (USAF-CEC) Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Office and administered through a contract between Baer Engineering of Austin, Texas...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Five samples from geologic “fire areas” on Santa Rosa Island, California, were submitted for identification. These “fire areas” represent distinct burn features located about 10-15 meters apart from one another and date to the Early Holocene or Terminal Pleistocene. Charcoal samples were identified to determine the types of trees burned at the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Charcoal fragments from a possible burned tree feature on Santa Rosa Island, California, were submitted for identification. This charcoal yielded a radiocarbon date of 12,200 cal BP and is noted to contain the remains of extinct deer mice believed to represent an ancient owl roost. Charcoal was identified to determine the species of the tree.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan. Josh Smallwood.

This government generated Section 106 report is a historic property inventory and assessment of adverse effects associated with the TP-01 Improvements Supporting Future Ballistic Missile Test Launches Project. The purpose of the document is to compile any prior or currrent studies performed in support of the TP-01 improvements supporting future Ballistic Missile Test launches as a single Section 106 report. This report provides the information needed by the California State Historic Preservation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan. Josh Smallwood.

This document is a government generated Section 106 historic property inventory and an assessment of adverse effects report associated with the National Reconnaissance Office's Western Processing Facility Construction Project. The purpose of this document is to compile any prior or current studies performed in support of the Western Processing Facility construction project as a single Section 106 report. This report provides the information needed by the California State Historic Preservation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Laura Ruggiero.

Sediment samples from Swordfish Cave (CA-SBA-503) on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, were floated to recover macrofloral remains. Two botanic samples also were sent for identification. This site represents a cave in a small sandstone outcrop with rock art panels both inside and outside the cave. A swordfish painted in black on top of a red oval is noted to be typical of Chumash illustrations. Radiocarbon dates suggest that this cave experienced several use episodes, including Early Period...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jenna Battillo.

The Santa Barbara Presidio site (CA-SBA-133) is a 19th Century Spanish/Mexican Period site located in Santa Barbara, California. Two bulk sediment samples excavated from a trash pit at the fort were submitted for flotation and macrofloral analysis. The goal of the project is to better understand the trading relationship between the presidio soldiers and the local Chumash tribe.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A soapstone vessel recovered in a Santa Ynez Valley as part of a burial (13) of a woman aged 35–50. Radiocarbon dates of 802 ± 24 and 929 ± 23 RCYBP on shell recovered from a nearby burial have been reservoir corrected to 1659–1875 and 1507–1679 A.D., respectively. Charred food residue recovered from the interior of the soapstone vessel was studied to determine its contents. This vessel was recovered from Los Padres National Forest and curated at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum. Samples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karin Pitts-Olmedo.

This document is a contractor generated letter report for a historic property inventory and an assessment of adverse effects associated with the proposed expansion of the current Gaseous Nitrogen Production Facility (Building 539). The purpose of the letter is to compile any prior or current studies performed in support of the facility expansion project as a single Section 106 and 110 compliance report. To support Section 106 compliance requirements, the 30th Civil Engineer Squadron,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wendy Teeter.

This document is an email response from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians for the PG&E Divide Power Line Project regarding the replacement of 7 power poles. The email serves as official comment from the Tribe and stated that the Chumash had no issue with Vandenberg Space Force Base's project finding of no historic properties affected.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) for the B7 and B9 power line projects. The letter reiterates 1) the details of the project, 2) the area of direct impact and area of potential effect (APE) , and 3) the archaeological site (CA-SBA-1049) to be potentially impacted. The letter provides SHPO concurrence for 1) the project APE, 2) the treatment of CA-SBA-1049 as eligible to the National Register of Historic Places for this project only, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California Office of Historic Preservation for the Pacific Gas and Electric (PGE) replacement of 7 power poles on the Divide power line on Vandenberg Space Force Base. The letter provides concurrence from the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) for the delineation of the project area of potential effect (APE) as well as the project finding of no historic properties affected.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Foley C. Benson.

This document is a report that details the archaeological survey of Sudden Flats and associated canyons. The reconaissance survey represented the beginning of a larger project to be conducted at a future date. The project was completed during the month of August, 1969 and consisted of 1. Determination of size and location of shell middens and other cultural materials in the survey area; 2. Determination and classification of the ecological aspects of the survey area; 3. Minor surface collection...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This document is a report that summarizes activities carried out on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, during the summer of 1969, under a Federal Antiquities Act Permit issued to Dr. Claude N. Warren of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara by the National Park Service as part of early inventory efforts at VAFB. Goals included locating archaeological sites between Shuman Canyon and Pt. Sal in the north and Sudden Flats in the south and filling out...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne. Michael A. Glassow.

This document is a preliminary report that presents the details of mapping 80 sites (maps not included) known in the project area, brief descriptions, and an initial evaluation of the significance of each site tested in the project area. Only 32 of the 80 sites were tested. As such this report was not considered adequate to provide supporting data for a draft EIS for the proposed Space Transportation Systems (STS) facilities at VAFB. A comprehensive final report on all aspects of field and lab...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This report is a document that describes the results of an archaeological survey that has been conducted at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California (see Map 1) over the last three years by the author while working in the capacity of Research Assistant and Research Anthropologist for the University of California at Santa Barbara. Two separate contracts funded by the U. S. Air Force and administered by the National Park Service have helped to support an on going archaeological inventory survey of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Glassow.

This report presents the results of archaeological investigations on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, undertaken to mitigate the impacts to three archaeological sites by construction of a shuttlecraft tow route. Included in the analysis of data from these sites are selected data from earlier test excavations at eight other sites near the three that are the main focus of analysis. Analysis and interpretations emphasize reconstruction of subsistence-settlement systems through more than 8500...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah H. Berry.

This report was written to supplement an earlier report (Berry 1990) and to address the comments of the California State Historic Preservation Officer SHPO). Several different types of information were requested by the SHPO and will be addressed in the appropriate sections following the format given in the Office of Historic Preservation publication (1989) “Archaeological Management Reports (ARMR): Recommended Contents and Format.” The earlier report can be found at:...