North America: California and Great Basin (Geographic Keyword)

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Zooarchaeological Analysis of Vertebrate Remains from the Santa Cruz Coast (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriel Sanchez.

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. Recent indigenous, eco-archaeological, and low-impact field research on the Central California Coast resulted in the excavation of four sites that were inhabited from the mid-Holocene to the contact period. Vertebrate remains from these sites were sampled using fine-grained recovery methods...


Zooarchaeological Investigations of a Cultural Keystone Place at Point Conception, Southern California (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Seth Bruck. Todd J. Braje. Torben C. Rick. Emma Elliott Smith. Lain Graham.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On the southern California coast, Point Conception is highly significant for Chumash peoples and demarcates a critical location of ecological diversity. At this location, the coastline abruptly shifts from a north-south to east-west trending shoreline and marks the ecological convergence of colder northern and warmer southern waters, a biogeographic...