San Clemente Island (Other Keyword)
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This poster presents information on charmstones, pendants and other specially curated objects recovered during a recent site-recording project undertaken by ASM Affiliates for the U,S. Navy on San Clemente Island, California. I report on several rare artifacts, including four pendants (two stone and two abalone), steatite effigies, a ceramic object, and several marine mammal ear bones. These finds represent rare or previously un-recorded artifact types on San Clemente Island. I discuss the...
Revisiting San Clemente Island’s Radiocarbon History (2017)
SRI recently completed NRHP site evaluations for 20 sites on San Clemente Island, as part of our on-call cultural resource management contract with Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest Division. Radiocarbon dates from 19 of the sites clustered into four discrete occupational episodes, all dating to the Late Holocene (post 3800 B.P.). The episodes were separated from one another by 200 -400 year intervals. Radiocarbon dates from other Late Holocene sites across the island studied by...