Southern San Francisco and Northern Monterey Bay (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark G. Hylkema.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Chronicles of Colonialism: Unraveling Temporal Variability in Indigenous Experiences of Colonization in California Missions", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Shell beads made from Olivella biplicata have been important to ancestral Native Americans of the southern San Francisco Bay for nearly 10,000 years. Variations in types and assemblages are temporally diagnostic and well documented; however, continued...