VAFB-1990-13: Waste Water Treatment Plant Archaeological Testing for Effects at SBA-793, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California

Author(s): Sarah H. Berry

Year: 1990

Summary

This report presents the results of a subsurface archaeological testing program at Sba-793 conducted by the Directorate of Environmental Management in May and June 1990. The purpose of the work was to evaluate the effect of construction of the proposed waste water treatment plant on this National Register eligible site.

Despite the disturbed appearance of the ground surface an undisturbed deposit exists within this portion of Sba-793. The deposit, however, does not contain any new or unique classes of data. Therefore, this testing program fulfills the requirements of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and no further archaeological work, other than construction monitoring, will be recommended.

Cite this Record

VAFB-1990-13: Waste Water Treatment Plant Archaeological Testing for Effects at SBA-793, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California. Sarah H. Berry. 1990 ( tDAR id: 445471) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8445471

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Keywords

Culture
Chumash • Purisimeno Chumash

Material
Asphalt • Chipped Stone • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone • Modern Debris • Monterey Chert • Mytilus californianus • Quartzite • road gravel • Sandstone • sandstone pebbles • Shell • sterile fill

Site Name
building 23260 • CA-SBA-793 • San Antonio Terrace National Register District • Vandenberg Tracking Station (VTS)

Site Type
Midden • seasonally occupied habitation site

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
0.5 x 1 meter unit • 1 x 1 meter units • accelerator mass spectrometer date • Archaeological Testing Program • area of potential impact (API) • basal fragment of basketry with asphaltum • battered cobbles • C-13 adjusted • Chert Core • chipped stone chunks • Chipped Stone Flakes • Chopper • Construction Monitoring • Core • Directorate of Environmental Management • Effects • evaporation/percolation ponds • expanding stem projectile point • flaked quartzite cobble • Flaked Stone Tools • Ground Stone Fragments • Hammerstones • helipad • Historic Preservation Plan • level record form • Mano • National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 • National Register eligible site • Quartzite Chopper • Radiocarbon dates • sandstone bowl fragment • Sandstone Mano • Secondary Flakes • Section 106 • Shell Fragments • Shovel Test Pits • Tertiary Flakes • Thinning Flakes • Tools • Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) Show More

Geographic Keywords
California (State / Territory) • Santa Barbara (County) • Vandenberg Air Force Base

Temporal Keywords
Canalino phase • early Late Period • Late Canalino phase • late Middle Period

Temporal Coverage

Radiocarbon Date: 930 to 615 (B.P.)

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Vandenberg Air Force Base; Roscoe Loetzerich

Landowner(s): Vandenberg Air Force Base

Repository(s): 30 CES/CEVPC Vandenberg Air Force Base

Prepared By(s): Space Missile Center, Directorate of Environmental Management, Vandenberg Air Force Base

Submitted To(s): Engineering and Contracts Branch, Vandenberg Air Force Base

Record Identifiers

Project ID(s): VAB 85-0041

VAFB Number (s): VAFB-1990-13

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Contact(s): Roscoe Loetzerich