Contextual Implications: Excavating Open Air Sites Adjacent to Cache Cave

Summary

This paper outlines the cultural context of a complex of sites (known as the LCC sites) nearest to Cache Cave in South Central California. Results from LCC test excavations provide new information that help characterize cultural occupation of this Chumash and Yokuts borderland area in the San Emigdio Hills. The paper focuses on artifact assemblages from excavations near bedrock milling features associated with LCC sites. Artifacts recovered during excavation, such as lithics, fragmented faunal bone, beads, and shell, indicate varying types of food procurement and possible goods manufacturing. Bead and lithic typologies and a single successful AMS date offer the first interpretation of chronological activities of the closest open air sites to Cache Cave. While the data recovered from the LCC sites provide a context for behavior and status of people that occupied the area, it also poses questions concerning the relationship of these open air sites to that of Cache Cave itself. Data from these excavations may help characterize occupational histories and cultural relationships of the San Emigdio Hills.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Cache Cave in Context: Unveiling New Discoveries in South Central California

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