VAFB-2019-08: Vandenberg Air Force Base Fiscal Year 2018 Vandenberg Rock Art Monitoring, Contract No. GS10F0059N

Author(s): Timothy J. Murphy IV

Year: 2019

Summary

This report documents and outlines the condition assessment of each rock art site on Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) for Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18). This report lists information about each site and brief summaries about common impacts, tasks, and specific observations at sites. Information in this report focuses on areas at rock art sites with significant impacts, high-risk areas for impacts, and professional insight to help understand the sensitivity of sites and implemented management strategies. This report outlines condition assessment data for all known rock art sites on VAFB for Fiscal Year 2018. The effort for assessing conditions of rock art assists with the requirement for the United States Air Force, 30th Space Wing for Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act. This report specifically examines impacts and implemented management strategies for fourteen rock art sites on VAFB for Fiscal Year 2018; CA-SBA-209, -210, -503, -550, -609, -612, -655, -2322, -2324, -2370, -2988, -3686, -3687, -3688H.

Cite this Record

VAFB-2019-08: Vandenberg Air Force Base Fiscal Year 2018 Vandenberg Rock Art Monitoring, Contract No. GS10F0059N. Timothy J. Murphy IV. 2019 ( tDAR id: 466160) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8466160

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Keywords

Culture
Chumash

Material
Abalone • bedrock • Fossil • Ground Stone • lithophaga plumula • Mineral • Pecten fossil • Pigment • Red Pigment • rock borer mussel • Shell

Site Name
Beehive Shelter • CA-SBA-209 • CA-SBA-210 • CA-SBA-2322 • CA-SBA-2324 • CA-SBA-2370 • CA-SBA-2988 • CA-SBA-3686 • CA-SBA-3687 • CA-SBA-3688 • CA-SBA-503 • CA-SBA-550 • CA-SBA-609 • CA-SBA-612 • CA-SBA-655 • Dam Creek Site • Fossil Rock Shelter East • Honda Ridge • Honda Ridge rock art panel • Nocto • Rattlesnake Shelter • Swordfish Cave • Waterfall Ridge Site • Window Cave

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Bedrock Grinding Feature • black drawings • black paintings • dense midden • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Isolated Artifact • Isolated Feature • Midden • Milling Feature • outcrop features • outcrop with possible cupules • Petroglyph • Pictograph • red paintings • Rock Art • serpentine outcrop • white paintings

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Heritage Management • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Site Evaluation / Testing • Site Stewardship Monitoring • Systematic Survey

General
3D modeling • abalone artifact • animal rubbing/erosion • annual monitoring • Bedrock Mortars • bird/animal excrement • bird/animal nesting • black lichen growth • black linear elements • blind detachment • Canyon Fire • carbon residue • cattle activity • Condition Assessment • contemporary incised figure • contemporary painted figures • contemporary pinkish-red paintings • Cupules • deteriorating host-rock interbedding • Drill Holes • exfoliation • fiscal year 2018 (FY18) • FY17 • Graffiti • granular disintegration • Grooves • heat stress • Incised Lines • incised slab/grooved stone • intrusive elements • Lichen • lichen growth • loss of surface/exfoliation • lower shelter • micro spalling • Mortar • percussive forces • pigment flaking • Pits • pXRF • quarterly monitoring • red algae/lichen • rodent activity • rodent nesting • sediment accumulation • spalling • Stratigraphic Analysis • upper shelter • vegetation overgrowth • water percolation • white accretion • wildfire Show More

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

Temporal Keywords
Contemporary • Prehistoric

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Vandenberg Air Force Base

Landowner(s): Vandenberg Air Force Base

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

Record Identifiers

Project ID(s): 2018-RAM

VAFB Number(s): VAFB-2019-08

Contract No. (s): GS10F0059N

File Information

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