North America: California and Great Basin (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Walter Dodd. Roger LaJeunesse.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster summarizes the analysis of 60 AMS 14C dates, including the associated stable isotopes of delta 13C, delta 15N, and delta 34S for human burials from the Skyrocket archaeological site (CA-Cal-629/630). Located 40 miles east of Stockton, California, these burials span a period in which there was a change in subsistence, as evidenced by material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Val Lopez.

This is an abstract from the "Current Insights into Pyrodiversity and Seascape Management on the Central California Coast" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Creation Story of the Amah Mutsun clearly delineates our traditional territory and asserts our responsibility to take care of Mother Earth and all living things. For thousands of years and many hundreds of generations the Amah Mutsun accumulated knowledge of how to ensure balance in their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Upuli DeSilva. Brittany Bingham. Kenneth Gobalet. Cyler Conrad. Brian Kemp.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Records from the Gold Rush San Francisco Bay Area indicate that food items were imported to offset the depletion of once abundant wild food sources. Fish were a large part of human diets during the Gold Rush, and while we know that Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) were fished later in the 19th century, it is unclear whether they were fished during the Gold...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffery Burton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There were ten War Relocation Centers established during World War II to incarcerate over 120,000 Japanese American citizens and immigrants, but only one had an orphanage. Manzanar's “Children’s Village” housed 101 orphans, from newborns to teenagers. The entire mass incarceration was unconstitutional, tragic, costly, and unnecessary, but imprisoning...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Weronika Tomczyk. Nathan P. Acebo.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating 20 Years of Support: Current Work by Recipients of the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship for Zooarchaeologists" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Puhu (Ca-Ora-132), a Native American settlement located in the Santa Ana mountains of California, has been remembered as a unique place of conflict centered around animal utilization. In 1831, Puhu was attacked and defeated by American fur trappers after the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Whitley. Tony Quach.

Yokuts ethnography indicates that pictograph sites passed from father to son to grandson within shamanic lineages, suggesting episodic painting at these locations. This practice is archaeologically supported by motif superimpositions and minor stylistic differences at sites. An in-situ pXRF study of red motifs was conducted at site CA-TUL-2871, Springville, CA, in the hopes of analytically distinguishing painting episodes, based on the assumption that chemically dissimilar pigments may have been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan Bertrando.

This is an abstract from the "MARS General Military CRM Poster Session" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have long looked to material culture to identify the presence and geographic extent of cultures in the past. Despite this long history, there remains significant challenges with this direction of research. In this case study, archaeological evidence ranging from subsistence remains to nonutilitarian goods is coupled with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Hoppa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Channel Islands National Park has been steadily increasing tribal involvement into all aspects of archeological field work through a series of cooperative agreements, funding collaborative survey work, monitoring of vulnerable sites, hands-on treatment and stabilization, and broader efforts related to access and traditional use. This paper shares lessons...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandra Gaskell. Gaylen D. Lee. John Pryor. William Leonard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During early suppression efforts of two wildland fires, indigenous firefighters reduced damage by sharing unrecorded cultural site polygons created from oral tradition aligned to dozer lines ahead of the fire’s predictive path. During the Detwiler Fire (2017), and the Ferguson Fire (2018), the Tribal Archaeologists from two tribes, and the Cultural Officers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Torres.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. NAGPRA empowered tribes to repatriate the remains and sacred objects of their ancestors. As a result, a movement developed and Indigenous archaeology was born. It has been with us for nearly 30 years now and some important benefits have resulted, especially in terms of interpreting archaeological data through an Indigenous lens. An amendment to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Nelson.

Spanish, Mexican and American waves of colonialism in Central California changed the lives of California Indian peoples in very drastic ways. California Indians were removed from their homes, forced to perform labor, and were moved into poor living conditions that contributed to declines in health and the loss of many California Indian lives. The physical removal of California Indians from their homes was also an attempt by Spanish missionaries and soldiers to re-imagine the indigenous world....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Nelson.

This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Resource management and academic disciplines focused on the study of cultural heritage and the environment have historically trained practitioners and hired for positions focused on either cultural or ecological aspects of the landscape. This dichotomy may be a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Baker. Clare Bedford. David Robinson.

Molecular spectroscopy is an information rich technique that is rapid, non-destructive and easy to operate. These qualities combined with a mature market in handheld spectrometers makes molecular spectroscopy an ideal technique for on-site analysis which is suitable for austere environments. This paper will discuss the use of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) and Raman spectroscopy to in the Gordian knot project based upon the Californian polychrome rock art site Pleito in order to provide a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Dyer.

This is an abstract from the "Ann F. Ramenofsky: Papers in Honor of a Non-Normative Career" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As Heritage Program Manager for Six Rivers National Forest in Northern California, I have worked closely with the Karuk Tribe and other partners on the Western Klamath Restoration Partnership (WKRP). WKRP is an initiative designed to utilize traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) to restore cultural burning on a landscape at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Castro. David Bruner. Nick Angeloff.

This is an abstract from the "The Future of Education and Training in Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cultural Resources Facility at Cal Poly Humboldt integrates training and employment in cultural resource management with the more traditional academic-themed archaeology courses. The CRF trains undergraduate students in project compliance with historic preservation laws and regulations under federal, state, and local jurisdiction....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Perry. Mikael Fauvelle.

This is an abstract from the "Complex Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers of North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most discussions of exchange relating to California’s eight Channel Islands have been framed in terms of island-mainland interactions, of which the Chumash people of the four northern islands have been the primary focus. Less consideration has been given to the Tongva of the four southern islands as well as inter-island and intra-island...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roger Colten.

This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Late prehistoric and early contact era Chumash society included wide-ranging exchange and social networks that integrated people among a diversity of ecological zones. Several of these models suggest three of the major ecological zones were the Northern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jiajing Wang. Laura Ng.

This is an abstract from the "Multispecies Frameworks in Archaeological Interpretation: Human-Nonhuman Interactions in the Past, Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pigs and humans have formed a mutualistic and symbiotic relationship since antiquity. In North America, large quantities of pig bones have been recovered from Chinese diaspora sites, indicating the importance of pigs to Chinese immigrant foodways. By analyzing pig dental calculus...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jill Eubanks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mule deer were important resources for the Ancestral Ohlone populations in the California San Francisco Bay area. Researchers typically use artiodactyl abundance information derived from archaeological assemblages to understand past hunting and land use behavior. Building upon previous models (diet breadth, costly signaling, climate change, and resource...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan Stevens.

This is an abstract from the "Old Technology, New Methodology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists in North America often think of the bow and arrow as appearing more or less instantaneously, a conception baked into many culture historical schemes. However, this specialized technology likely has a more complex history. From a single Old World origin, it is thought to have spread to North America via the Arctic after about 5000 cal BP....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Neil Hauser. Teri Hauser.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An investigation of over 300 images of contracting stem points from Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado was carried out using geometric morphometrics (GMM) techniques. The GMM analysis used over 150 landmarks on each of the 2D images. Examination of the principal components and landmarks with respect to geographic occurrence indicate these points changed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Perry.

This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In honor of Jeanne Arnold, I discuss major theoretical and methodological themes in her research on the northern California’s Channel Islands including 1) her focus on Late Holocene households as relevant units of past decision-making and current...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Sunell.

This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jeanne’s excavations at tlaqayam̓u (CA-SCRI-330) yielded detailed information about bead-making on limuw (Santa Cruz Island, CA) in the centuries before Spanish colonization. Two of the important classes of artifacts that underpinned the conclusions she...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Hess.

This is an abstract from the "US Army Corps of Engineers: Current Work in CRM, Research, and Creative Mitigation" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The US Army Corps of Engineers’ (Corps) Regulatory Program regulates work and structures within Lake Tahoe, a navigable water of the United States, under the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899. The recent lifting of a local building moratorium has resulted in a resurgence of private, commercial, and public...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stanley Berryman.

As one of the fortunate students who was at San Diego State University in 1975, I was present for the announcement that Dr. Joe Ball had been hired as a professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology. As a contemporary of Joe, I had the opportunity to see his early contributions to the growth of the Department in the 1970's and his willingness to give his time and energy to help his students be successful regardless of their focus in archaeology. It did not matter if the student's...