Incorporating Multiple Data Sources to Identify Social Boundaries in a Prehistoric Landscape: A Case Study from the Nacimiento River, Camp Roberts, California

Summary

This is an abstract from the "MARS General Military CRM Poster Session" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeologists have long looked to material culture to identify the presence and geographic extent of cultures in the past. Despite this long history, there remains significant challenges with this direction of research. In this case study, archaeological evidence ranging from subsistence remains to nonutilitarian goods is coupled with ethnographic data to plot the shifting settlement territories in an area occupied by various indigenous groups over the last 2,000 years including the Northern and Southern Salinan as well as the Northern Chumash. The results contribute to our understanding of how this approach may be applied and what its limitations are.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• MARS General Military CRM Poster Session   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39797.0