Rediscovering Assil: An Ethnohistoric Salinan Village
Author(s): Robert Hoover
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Evidence of a large site in southern Monterey County, California, is likely the ethnohistoric village of Assil, chiefly capital of a district of the same name. Part of the site is submerged by the waters of Lake San Antonio. The site played a crucial role in an 1818 battle between the Yokuts invaders and the Spanish with their Salinan allies. The village provided a major source of neophyte converts to nearby Mission San Atnonio de Padua. The history of the village can be tied to several specific events and historic personalities, a rare circumstance in the archaeology of the region.
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Rediscovering Assil: An Ethnohistoric Salinan Village. Robert Hoover. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449301)
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Keywords
General
contact period
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Ethnohistory/History
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Landscape Archaeology
Geographic Keywords
North America: California and Great Basin
Spatial Coverage
min long: -124.189; min lat: 31.803 ; max long: -105.469; max lat: 43.58 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 23557