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DOCUMENT Citation Only Dayan G. Weller.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. John Davenport began whaling off the coast of Monterey, California in 1854, establishing the state’s first shore-based whaling station .With the discovery of petroleum and eventual ubiquity of gas lighting through the 1860s, Californian shore whaling began as a moribund industry - the sharp decline in the value of whale oil and a...