Best Practices and Community Engagement for Reinternment of CA-LAn-270 (Los Altos Village) Cultural Materials on a National Registry Listed Site

Summary

Within the core of NAGPRA is a spirit of collaboration and consultation between institutions, investigators and native communities. At CSULB, we have partnered with Tongva/San Gabrielino community members and university administration to reinter cultural remains from CA-LAn-270 (Los Altos Village Site), a site excavated in the 1950s. Community interests have centered on placing the re-interment place on university campus property and at a location of CA-LAn-234, a National Register listed location. With a overlap of archaeological and community interests and with cooperation from university administration, we have establish a program that seeks to find common ground across interests while also mitigating impacts to the archaeological record. Here, makes use of geophysical studies and remote sensing to guide the project to minimize impact during the preparation of the area for reburials. Impacts to LAN-234 are mitigated through a field school component that brings together the community, archaeologists and students as well as seeks to learn more about this significant deposit. Our approach reflects community involvement and university administration approval while also using best practices for conducting archaeological field work on a nationally registered historic site in addition to meeting the needs of the local community and preserving the archaeological record.

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• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

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