Interior Chumash Faunal Exploitation: The View from SBA-2464

Summary

This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Late prehistoric and early contact era Chumash society included wide-ranging exchange and social networks that integrated people among a diversity of ecological zones. Several of these models suggest three of the major ecological zones were the Northern Channel Islands, the nearby mainland coast, and the upper Santa Ynez River Valley (SYRV). While the coastal zone and the islands have received considerable attention from archaeologists in part due to exceptional preservation on the islands and modern development on the mainland, interior regions are not as well documented. The interior was also less densely populated and there were fewer sites than in the other two zones. This presentation includes faunal data from the late prehistoric and early historic site of SBA-2464 in the SYRV and compares those data to sites in the other two ecological zones.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38647.0