Ancestral Native American Archaeology of the San Francisco Bay Area

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

San Francisco Bay is the second largest estuarine system on the west coast of North America. The remarkable biotic diversity of the bay, with its surrounding valleys, uplands and vast tidal delta supported a great mosaic of individual tribal polities for several thousand years. During the Late Holocene, dramatic trends toward more complex forms of social organization, economic diversification and extensification is abundantly evident in the archaeology of the region. This symposium, composed of a wide-ranging collection of presentations, explores aspects of social complexity, subsistence pursuits and economic diversity within an area that was one of the great population centers of Tribal North America.

Other Keywords
stable isotope analysis • Faunal • Social Complexity • Geoarchaeology • bioarchaeology • Trade • Archaeology • Diet • Boats • Hunter-Gatherer

Geographic Keywords
North America - California

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  1. Auditory Exostosis: A Marker of Occupational Stress in Pre-Contact Populations from the San Francisco Bay Region of California (2015)
  2. Diachronic Changes in the Shell Mounds of the San Francisco Bay: A Case Study of Ellis Landing (CA-CCO-295) (2015)
  3. Feeding the Ranks: correlating social organization and dietary patterns at the Yukisma Mound (CA-SCL-38) (2015)
  4. Fins, Feathers and Furs: Fish, Bird, and Mammal Remains from a Stege Mound Complex Site, CA-CCO-297 (2015)
  5. An Ideal Free Settlement Perspective on Residential Positioning in the San Francisco Bay Area (2015)
  6. Kroeber’s omnivore’s dilemma: regional perspectives on late Holocene human paleodiets in the San Francisco Bay area (2015)
  7. A Land Transformed: Holocene Sea-Level Rise, Landscape Evolution, and Human Occupation in the San Francisco Bay Area (2015)
  8. Late Holocene Resource Depression in San Francisco Bay: Recent Research with Tule Elk, Sturgeon, and Waterfowl (2015)
  9. Men at Work: Economic Complexity and Exploitation of Dietary Marine Protein Sources in the San Francisco Bay Area (2015)
  10. Reconstructing Mobility in the San Francisco Bay Area: Strontium and Oxygen Isotope Analysis at two California Late Period sites, CA-CCO-297 and CA-SCL-919 (2015)
  11. Shellmounds of the San Francisco Bay as Sacred Landscapes (2015)
  12. Stable Isotope Perspectives on Diet and Mobility in the California Delta (2015)
  13. Tule Balsa Boats and the San Francisco Bay Economy. (2015)
  14. An Update of the Prehistoric Native American Fishery of San Francisco Bay (2015)
  15. Use of Faunal Resources as Trade Commodities During the Late Period - Evidence from a Stege Mound (CA-CCO-297) (2015)