VAFB-2017-15: Archaeological Investigations Supporting Section 106 Compliance for Demolition of the Antenna Farm in the San Antonio Terrace Archaeological District, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California

Author(s): Clayton G. Lebow; Karin Pitts-Olmedo

Year: 2017

Summary

This contractor generated Section 106 and 110 report is a historic property inventory and an assessment of adverse effects associated with the Demolition of the Antenna Farm in the San Antonio Terrace Archaeological District on Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County in California. The purpose of the document is to compile any prior or current studies performed in support of the Demolition of the Antenna Farm in the San Antonio Terrace Archaeological District project as a single Section 106 and 100 compliance report. To help meet its compliance obligations under Section 106, the 30th Civil Engineer Squadron, Installation Management Flight, Environmental Section, Environmental Assets (30 CES/CEIEA) at Vandenberg AFB issued Statement of Work: Cultural and Natural Resources Compliance Assessments in Support of SMC’s Antenna Farm Demolition Project, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, CA, dated May 2016. Applied EarthWorks, Inc. was retained to complete the cultural resources portion of the statement of work. This report provides the information needed by the California State Historic Preservation Officer to concur on the project findings and determinations for individual resources as presented by the Vandenberg Air Force Base Cultural Resource Manager. The report specifically examines project impacts and/or avoidance strategies for four archaeological sites; CA-SBA-991, -992, -1001, -3012.

Cite this Record

VAFB-2017-15: Archaeological Investigations Supporting Section 106 Compliance for Demolition of the Antenna Farm in the San Antonio Terrace Archaeological District, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California. Clayton G. Lebow, Karin Pitts-Olmedo. 2017 ( tDAR id: 465878) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8465878

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Keywords

Culture
Chumash

Material
Abalone (Haliotis sp.) • abalone shell • Baccharis pilularis • Chert • Chipped Stone • chiton • Coyote brush • dense coastal sage scrub • fire-altered rocks • fire cracked cobbles • Fire Cracked Rock • Granite • ice plant • Marine Shell • Narlon Sand • Obsidian • Oceano Sand • seasonal grasses • Shell

Site Name
Antenna Farm • CA-SBA-1001 • CA-SBA-1002 • CA-SBA-2568 • CA-SBA-3012 • CA-SBA-3013 • CA-SBA-722 • CA-SBA-723 • CA-SBA-991 • CA-SBA-992 • San Antonio Terrace Archaeological District • VAFB-ISO-68 • VAFB-ISO-69 • VAFB-ISO-71 • VAFB-ISO-795 • VAFB-ISO-796

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Chipping Station • Hunting Camp • hunting location • Lithic Scatter • sparse scatter of chipping waste • sparse scatter of lithic artifacts • wind-deflated site with low density chipping waste

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
barbed contracting stemmed triangular point • Biface Tip • Bifacial Tool • chert bifacial tool • Chert Core • Chert Primary Flakes • chert secondary flakes • Chert Shatter • Chipping Waste • core/battered stone • Core Fragment • Cores • edge-modified piece • excurvate point • Flakes • Ground Stone • hammerstone fragments • laurel-leaf shaped point • Lithic Debitage • low to moderate density chipping waste • Mano Fragment • Manos • Metate Fragment • moderate chipping debris • Obsidian Blade • Projectile Point Fragments • Projectile Points • shovel test pits (STPs) • triangular bladed stemmed point • triangular expanding stemmed point • unifacially ground cobble Show More

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

Temporal Keywords
Prehistoric

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

Record Identifiers

Project ID(s): 813-16-011

VAFB Number(s): VAFB-2017-15

File Information

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Contact(s): Roscoe Loetzerich