Published J:?y the Society for California"Arc)laeology, · Inc., San Franqiscq, I..os Angeles and Davis, California, Articles. appe;i.tj.ng in '+'he Newsiette11 do not ne.cessa:ctly reflect th.El views of the $oc~ety or the Executive Committee. All signed materials are attributable to their authors; . all other matezi_als appea:i; as the :i;esponsibility of the editors .
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EDHO~!At:S -~l;) £XECUT1VE COM1HTIEE REPORTS
NEWS AND CURRENT RESEARCH
REPORT ON UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
SCA SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACTS~ 1967 First Annual Meeting
COVER DESIGN QUESTIONNAIRE
NEW MEMBERS
EDITORIAL: THE FIELD CLASS PRO§LEM
! n the . past five t.o ten years a rchaao 1 ogy has undergone a tremendous rise in poµu·1arity on the field school 1eve1.. For examp"ie, the UCLA :5prfog Field Class~· which had an enrollment of 10 in 1962$ had an enro11ment of ~4 by 1964 and this year took 78 studentso Not only have existing field classe~ gotten much largert but many other schools have opened field classes$ This is a situation very much deserving the Society 6 s attention~
Last spring two junior co"nege instructors approache.1 the Archaeo1og1ca1 Survey requesting 1 authorization 3 to run an archaeo1ogica1 f1e~d training c1asst and asking for a site t.o dig.. It is beside the point that the Sur-V€Y is not empowered to gl"'ant ~authorizat1<H1n for any such enterprise,, What is impr.:rtant is that neither teacher had an archaeo1ogica1 background~ that neither co11eqe had any laboratory faci1it1es avai1ab1e~ and neither was going to provide them, ar.J that the teachers had no plans to analyze and publish their data according to accerJtab'ie sdentific or scholav·ly standardse Vet two junior co11eges were planning (and as of today have gone ahead) to give course credit in fie'M ar·chaeology fo classes taught by unqualified in-s true tors &
Similar instances have occurv~~~d here3 and we are sure elsewhere... Ourino the past year we were approached by a boy's schoo"I instructor f?~om Los Ange1es!)-severa1 high school teachers and some )amt'tteur IrnHan clubg members, a11 with the same 9enera·i idea in mind: gettin~ a s·~te ?.nd a f1 .. ont from a ~respectable' institutiono
This is a very unfortunate situation for California archaeologyo Oth€rwise perceptive college officials~ assuming that no patt1cu1ar ski11s or facilities are needed for archaeo1ogica'1 research and teaching~ are more and more frequent1y author
_.J-z4ng field classes.. In many cas.es$) quaHfied instructors have been found; ht many / cases~ they have not~ Knowledge of the {now) many state and federal antiquities
ai:ts t~bv·iously is not very widespread,. and certainly the Society~s ccmceptfon of what are acceptable standards is not widespread, either ...
We face a s·ftuation in whirr1 more sites rfre. beh1g vandalh.ed, but now under the cloak of respeetabiHty of college field classes.. More people are beh1~ ~riven fie'id
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·~:~1~t!i the i;;~H1cern pr·~h:t~--i::;~~~,~;) f~~ archaeoiogica1 re3o~~ces to
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The ecitm·s fa;1 that th~ Society h in a pos1tion to taf(e a strong and usefu1 stand on this orcb1emjlo i\ two.,·part program of educat1cn and action h in ov-deV'~ The_ Society is in a position (fen~ the first time ·in CaHforrria) to dissemh1ata inf,m"'ma ... tfon about the validity of' scholarly archaeology~ about the need ·for trained inves-.. ti gators; about the relevant 1aws ~ about our standards and ethics.. it is germane fot" 'the Society to create a climate of respect for archaeology as a skilled discipline, one that cannot be plunged into productivity· by eager ne!Jphytes any more than they could with television repair o~ cosmetic surgery.. !t ·a1sti is time~ we thinkg for the Soci~ty to take an active pos.itico with regard to colleges giving classes ta~ght by tmtrained persons with faadequate or m:me!<istent facilitiesa Efforts should be made by the Society to persuade sYch colleges to stop such programs unless remedies can be made. The Society should make a rea1 effort to bring pressure to bear on groups who ar~ unwfl1ing to ~on;ply with iH:c2ptable sets of standards.. !t could a1so act as a clearing-house fo~ colleges seeking qualified instructors in field archae$ o1ogy~ cu·iture history and pr•ehistoric anthropology\'! and thus serve a positive function for educators in the state~
The Editor~
REPORT OF THE INTERIM SITE SURVEY PLANNING COMMITIEE
At the first annual meeting of the SCA~ a committee was formed to investigate the preparation of an 1n'ter1m plan for· the fHing of s·ite sut"Jey data, since the state survey cente1"' appears now to be a dim pt~ssiMHty"' The committee was also to 1rwestigate updating the divishm of highway survey respons1biHty;;
While nothing can be implemented until the fa11 when an concerned are back f·rom the field~ the basic plan has been set up as fo11ows:
L Finite 1ogica1 regions of the stat~ wril be made the sole responsibility of specific institutions(. These institutat1ons wi11 be t"esponsible for receiving, filing, and making available si survey data for their areas~ and will issue site designat3on numbers for their areasi> They wiH not be responsible for excavation within the~Ir regions, or for actual physic.al surveys;} but wiH be expected to cooperat12 with legitimate institutions operating within the regions.. They w111 release site data in accordance vr!th the guidelines set up for the proposed central site sur~ev file, ;md win be the so~le issuers of official state site designation numbe~"S within their regfons ..
2.. Tentatively, five centers have now been proposed for regional survey data filing; UCLAi; UC Santa Barbara, UC Berke"iiey!ll UC Davis and a combination of Sonoma and San Francisco State Co11eges .• Each w111 be responsible for- designating te~. within a Hm·fted number of ccn.mUes in its inmlerl'h~te vicinity, and wi11 be the on1y institution w·fth such responsibili-ty,. The precise division of responsiM lity has net been worked out.~ but the entirf:! state wH1 covered .. A~n five centers have agr·eed tentatively to go a1ong with the general tenets of the proposaL
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~'}1~ns sho,.;1d be ·fu~~ther ad~tt;i:;1c:~d in th~~ fa11.~~ and .~ugg~stiwns t.._;c~11d b·e a!)~~tt:::~~ drected to Tom. K~~~~;i~ Depari;sm:rrt o'f Alf?:';hrcpcfogyt' San F~~m1c'Is~;o s-~ate Cc11e£,e.)
EDlTORS 1 APOLOGY
A maflir&g conflict kept the Jun~ isst<e of the SCA ~.?~.1~$1~.r frcm being deHve4";:;J.;, The ed 0ib::n,,,s offer sincere apo1o~ries fm" the delay and incmive~·~ience to membersll News 'i'tams should be slated for the Jt.me issue have been incovaporated ·foto a reconstituted October mimbe.r IP
We also regr-Et to armomu:e that ri:sfog eosts and evaporating funds make it neces.,,, sary for the 1~s1etter:. to returr. to spir·it dupHca.t:fon unti1 further· notica:.
~E}{? .. AND ~URRENT RESEJl.RCfi
UCtA RESEARCH PRO,JECT IN THE DORDOGNE
, The Arch~eologi·~a1 Suirv~y$ Oep~rtme~~ .... of Anthropofo~y A at UCL/\ _h1 collaboratiD~ ~·J~tn 'the Laborato1re de Pr-~hist~:rrre~ Urr!vers1 ~e de Bordeaux \G1ronde, France) has rece1vea a grrant from the National Sc·ience Frmndat·ion (GS"" 16.l9) to conduct archaeo1og1ca1 fa.x. 'resti~at-fons at a 1att= Pa1eoHthic open,-air site located in the Perigord region of Southwestern Francec
""J:...ti~~il..> o <:~ct..->'lt+ D~·n~..,.,.,,,.me0..,,t· o-f ·'w::-hir"'p""'1:r,ny ..... }- t1JCln -? ... ~,;¥,'i7nf""1~n;-~i l_n .. ":~es ... t1"ga·tn. '•"":.! '· a.1;....,.., 1\c.- ._,~ 4°1>~ .... v 9 '-;-:i;.iJ. ~ .... t.,. · • M .......... v 1;.ip...1':1 i:l!!.> • n~} .. ::. .1;.. .. ~11 '!! ,~ _
F~an~ds Bortles~ Un~~versit.e de Bn:rdeamt, is co .... J:rnr;estigator; and Dona1d S,, MiHe~, UCLA~ ~~ Ctd€f As~·istant on this two ... yea1"' proleet.i rne sita is named S4J11fi~wc {UCJ\S ... 253)., This exb~eme1y ~"'kh 5Alte focorporat~s at 1east three maJov· horizons t1f Upp;::r Paleo1H:hk sett1~ment~ two of wMch fH~e ass·igned to tr1e Magda1~r.ian ct11tura1
d:i . ,., d . t . ~ lJ D , J " a t S! • ~ - .t.. " .l 0 :<.. & ... • • tra d:1on an one . o ~n~ ppeir . er~gor:J1an.. ~par ... 1-rmn r.ne 'Hlt.7'1nS!C -rrn .. e~e~h oT -cm.? p-rehisto~~ic CJ.j1tures com::en~ed and the fact that open-a1~"' s·it:es have only begun t·o ret:eive :sy:;tematic investigation ·jn this archa;:o·~og·fca11y cfaszfo regfrm~ the impo~ta.nce of Solv·ieUX is tmderS(:Ored by certai;·~ of 'its features that are partiCLi1er1y wen suited for the testing of research procedwres 'iNh kh are d'h..,~cted tcward p';'·ob1ems of cultural reconstruction and fote?··pr2tation.. These fochide 12Jd.::ensive CDbb1estone pavements whose regular :.:trchH:ectura1 plans furnish c1ear~·cut spatfo1 patterning for stnne tool distribut·iDn\) In addition to the desfon of new technfoues for"' excavatino op~n-.a1 r s i t2s... research strateo:y w·I 11 i nva 1 ve severa 1 co."Tio lementarv ana 'iyti c phases., ~ , ,J ..,. ( - ) ~ t+. ,_. b .A.t 1 'O "'::;! ~ • 6 "'t A .._... •.._ f _J .;,.. i.J ._, t 4.,. ~ ~ nv.:.uLJ1r1g ti~ a·-..r1 .. u! .. a1 ana1ys1s ot sr..one ·~mpH::ment..s rot" 'tn€ ues·Aan of .. yµo!og1es to be used in space-t·ime systemat:ks and studies of tcJJ1 function; (2} seriation of :;o1vieux. horiwrm. witn·in the regh:ma'i sequence of 1·ock-she1t2Y' deposits from which envirrn;merrtal concl'itions may be reconstructed for the rele,Ja.nt time pt!rh1cs; and {3} ana1ys·js of spat~ia1 dist.rfbut·Jons of s_trme tt~o1s and at'crritectur~a1 features on :~ccupatfon surifac·2s with th~ objective of de"fhd ?lg the major- economfr:; domestk i and :wcia1 activ·f ties represented at So1vi~ux.. Each of these phases will involve e-.x....: perimentation with mu1tivar·ia:~~ st3tistic frameworks of ana1ysfa.. .
M~Abers !';/?the ·rfrst seas~:m~s field crew :incl~ciej; 'f'rcm UCL'\~ James :Sih~[~e~ct;) D.:.mal<' Mfl1er, Ger;r:: 5tar~f.!., Phi1 3urnham,~ Dw1~ht Re~d,, Cath~:;ri~e R~-~dJ ?atr:ie1a ?hi1Hn 'md Me·l Thtmncn!' The fi tl CY"EW ~i11 also iw:11.~de par"t .. ·time UCtl!. students and a ;tudent fnm the lh~·Jversity of Bordeaux,.
Site: Ven-87& San Buenaventura Mission Spons rr: Ventura City Courn:·i 1 Field Director: R~ Oa Browne
J~mes R,, Sackett
Suppolt! Volunteer labor Dates: Dec.,-f\pril ! 1967., Foundations of fivt: structures rtntea1ed cart of or"iginal
Mis;ion compound.. Excavations now cios{;d, pending f1nam:ia1 support for 1argeSC(.'Je investigation"
Site! Ven~3. Shisholop Spons••r! Ventura City Council and Redeve1opment Agency F1e1d Director: Roberta S .. C1reenwood Suppo : City of Ver.tura Date: March 1967 .. Fu~ther work.at coastal Chumash site first excavated in 19650
UCLA F'iElD SCHOOL DIG !N BUTTE COUNTY
T,~e Finch Moundl) 4 .... sut-12! was the site of excavations of the 1967 UCLA field School under the direction of Joseph L Chartkoff and James T .. Toney.. Situated on the ea!:t side cf the Sacramento River some eright miles west of Chico?) the site Hes in a zoie little known in either the a~thaeo1cg1cal or the ethnographic literature~ ThE; hist-or·k boundary between the ett'mofwaphic Wintun and Maidu existed some-where near the site; definite sthm.iffraphie attribtrt·h:m has not yet been madeG No radiocarbon da:~es ar~ yet avaflab1e, but other evidence suggests an occupation during a neriod s~·mrt1v before contact between Euroueans and Ind·Jans in this areac Pro ... venienced Mstorfo ar~Ui"jacts are absent; ten' obsidian hydvaatfan tssts made by Paul Aie11o of Ut'tA a11 read umje·r one m·kron; index fossil pcrint and bead types correspond with dominan\: late Horizon types estab11:shed for the Delta region a hundred mi1~s to the south ..
Host co11e~le for the field school wa$ Chico State CoHege 3 for the third str~r·1ght year!> Keith Jo~1nsonp instructor Anthropology at Chico State!t pro~rfded fova1uab1e 1iaisnn~ TEn students atte~ded the school this year~ .
RESERVOIR SURVEYS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
The National Par<lk Service sup.ported v~ec,mnaissarace in t--weive proposed reservoirs spread over Northern California from Vacavi11e to Denny., Nelson Leonard directed field operations for the UCLA Archaeological StsrVeYo Drafoages involved included the Trinity, South fork Trinity3 New!J Van Du:ten and Mad Rivers in Tr!n-Ji;y and Humboldt Counties!/ Cot";onwood Creek in Shasta C~t.mty~ Thomes Cr~ek in T;ehama Cotmty~ and Str.:ny Creek in Glenn Cotmty ~ During the survey some 80 previously unr:ecorcled sites "'~re located .find recorded.. Reports a't€ in prepa·ration. for the National ·Pa~k Ser'!,,ricee
Roberta s?) G~reen\100d directed Si1·1~1age e~·~CC'Vat10n$ ·for the C-a1ifOT-i1ia Oi~?isicn cf Beaches and Parks at threra south~rn C:.1Hfm"rr1a ;H~s dm·t·fr~g tha swrlinaif' of 1967 0
Tn~ Swope site (Ven-168} and sites Ven ... 82 and Ven-59 w~r"i:? ·dH .. ::=~tened with d~str-VJC= titm by the bffHding of a freeway fr·ou. Ventura to Ojai-~ Fie1d work e:{tendsd fr-am May 2 t~·; August 1 e
TEST EXCAVATIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY
The Cottonwood Creek Site~ SOi-777 t was tested during Ju.ly and. August~ 1967 ~ by a UCLA Archaeo1ogica"t Survey crew headed by Robert iC Evans4' The si.te will be destroyed by Interstate 80 highway construction; E~ansa excavations will determine the need for salvage efforts~ The site itself is situated.at the base of the Cuyamaca Mountafos.. Probably attributable to t.he !1V"adecessors of the ethnographic D1egueno~ this habitation sit:e yielded three distinct pottery wares from surface co11ections,.. Analysis is t.naderway. and a report will bt~ fi~e · with the State Di'rision of Beaches and Parks~ ·
u c omns INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MENDOCINO COAST
The Department of Anthropology at the University of California~ Davis!) sponsored archaeo1ogica1 investigations on the Mendocino Coast in Coast Yuki territory during parts of August and September~ 1966~ The investigationss conducted in the Ten Mi1e River area, were directed by David A~ Fredrickson and involved excavations in a historic village s·ite .. On the basis cf the 'finds, Fredrickson hypothesizes that the site was occupied by Northern Pomo who had encroached upon terrftory held by the Coast Yuki until their' virtua1 decimation" due to contact with Eur"pean culture. The investigaticms also disdosed the presence of what 'is believed to be the Nortf-r·-Coast Range Early Mi1Hnq Stone Comp'tex ·h1 the form of surface finds of manos and crude core to(}1s.. No midden finds of such items were discovered, howevert>
ADDITIONAL C~14 DAlES FOR WATER RESOURCES INVESTIGATIONS AT BUENA VISTA LARE
Two addiitit.ma1 C-14 dates for a buried ctdtura1 component at Ker= 116~ located on the shr.n,.·eHne {)f Buena Vfata Lake hi southwest~~n Ker-ri Cm.mty, were reported recently by Or" Carl L Hubbs, Sc~ipps InstH:uticm 9f Oceano~n"aphy.. The dates e ob·> tafoeci from burned and unburned /lsmdm1ta recovered 'f'r-om a cul tura 1 context .. werre both 8200 + 400 yr~ B,>F\ (6250 iCt:~}" (LJ-1.357, tJ-1356}o The samples dated wer:e
... "Q = J d " .. . ... ~ "i! ~ • ., • 0 . " 19~it ..1 • • t.. coi 1~CTPn . ur1r.g service arc;naeoH>g1ca~ 1nvest.1gat1ons rn · oq sponsoreo ny 'tit'? ..... ~· L ..,, t • t R • . , t' tl o.t d • .~ "'' . ""' f ~ "'..s • ., ~" uepart.menl:. or 1•m e-y ... esources~ superv1s€a oy r .... .J ... ;1>, ae~t2 w1wn "H:du cnrec~.·nm by D,, A. Fredricksonc P1 previous date of 7600 + 200 yr B,,P., (5650 B"'C,,) {I-1928) obta··f ned fr'f.1m Anodonta r~ecovered from the: same bur·f ed cu'! tura 1 stratum was repor~ted in the _UCLA Archaealc9~·h-;al Mews1ette!,;) No+ ·rn, p .. 5~ Marcn·s 1966.,
NEWS AND CURRENT RE5EARCH
~uc Davis carried out excavatfons and ~ .. econna1ssance at the .!\uburn-.. Fo1som !~eservcir site east of Sacrame:ntc dt~rin~! the summer.,
*Claude Warren excavated at the C.. ·4 .. Harris Site:) SDi-149 (the San Dieguitc Type Site) in August and September ..
•The UCLA Archaeological Survey tested several sites on the Malibu Coast {Los AngE1es and Ventura Counties) th·is sum~~ri Venn·89 {Big SycamoreL LAn-29~ and several sites in La Jolla Canyon~ tmde:· the direction of Chester King and Jim West,.
1r:santa Cruz Island was partially ··;urveyed and tested by Paul ,t!Je11o and Garv Q ~
Stickel of the UCLA Archaeo1ogica0
i St.·rvey= fo a pro3ect carried out for Dr"' James Hi 11 ~
*Orange County 5aha9e excavatims at Ora-195, near the UC Irvine campus~ were 1 ed b_y Mar~1.at~et Susi a Wei <le and Frrnk F enenga of Lon{] Be~ch State Co 1l ege \) .during June~ July and August~ under a Div.sion of Beaches and Parks contract. ·
*UC Oavis held its first summl':l" f·ield schco1 in Tehama County~ where two sites on the Dye Creek drainage (Yana t~rritory} werf: excavated under the direction of Dr. Martin Baumhoff and Jerald JihnsonQ
As reported in the 1ast SCA News1e.:.~1~z., Marin County has adopted an ordinance requiring scientific 1nvest·iga1.fon of any archaeo1ogka1 site that is to be diestroyed
d -l ":1 • l , • b- d ~ . r- .., ,, -~.. . .,. th . . .. or amagea~ on lana~ OOt.n pu 6 :C an pr·1vate11 n1$ aS a l'H~5t tor ,,e nat:1on 1n
archaeo1ogica·1 con~ervation~ hat it has placed a heavy burden on th~ non-professional ~rchaeologists of the County. who must do the worku Various sources of funds to hire a professional coordfor.tor or at 1east to purchase equipment are being investigated~ but so far none ha:e panned out~
In an attempt tn get tL~ excavation program Dff the ground, the Northt~estern California Archaeofogic2!1 ·:"ociety!) in cooperat·h:m with the San Francisco State College Arch:aeofogka1 Sur·ey, has estab1'lshed the llMa·rin County Fvnd 11 ~ We are herewith issuing an urgen1 appeal for contrihuti9ns to this fund, which will purchase equ·ipment and pay 1,ga'I costs'J f'ive dollars from each SCA member, and ten dol"iars from institutions would put the program on its feet11 but contributions in a.ny amount are welcome,,, ·
The NCAS is a registf ~d, non-profit corporation~ so donations are tax-deductab1eo Contributions may be sent to the NCl-\S Treasurer :i Mrs.. Ruth Conger:> at 399 Camphor Ave .. ~ Fremont, or to th~ >an Fr~ndsco State Co'l!ege Archaeological Survey, r../o Mr .. Robert Edi.vards, Oepar:.ment of 1!\nthropcloqy? San ·Francisco State College, 1600 Ho 11 oway Ave, !J San Franc. sec,, This is a.n urgent matter which may hopefu11 y have statewide repe:rcuss ions o Please contribute,,
The Southwestern i\ntf'ropck111·ica1 Asscdatfon has named the fo11owing indi;ddua1s as its slate of off·icers for the p?'esent yeaa~:
Pr-esidic:rrt: Pau<i Eze~; {San Die(]G Stat2 Cn11ege) Vice-?resident: fre( Bear-!nq (~.lni':!ersity of LCaHfnrrda;) Rivers!d~~) ,,... . - L ·. .. f"~ ,, .!t "" 11. •. ~GC1"~~i:H".Y: t.mma ·:HJ JaV1 S \ 1•.use;_am ,~·j'" r·,cH,.L~ ;)~m ;,, ·~ego J Treasurer: Dar:fa1 Wr tney {Sa;<i Diego State Co1 !ege) Nt:ws1etter Editor: Ltn Swett {San. Franci5co State Co11eqej J.\ssistant Ed~tcr: G!.}rge Cheney (San Francisco State Co11ege)
t1C·St the 1968 1::errfi:7i,:::nce for the S:,iAA; a
1969 meetings has been tabled
(Extracte.;d frnm v~L 9) Ne., 1 $
NEW STAFF AT THE ARCHJ~EOLOGlCi\l SURVEY
Staff changes are armcunc~d for fiscal year 1967-1968 at the UCLA Archaeologicd Surveya James Tu Toney has been appointed Chief Archaeologist~ assisted by staff archaeologists Joan Po Carpenter and Robert Ko Evans~ Ora James NQ Hi11 conti~v~s as Director ..
Mrb Toney~ a graduate st~dent in anthroµo1ugy at UCLA, Teceived his B.Aa in that subject from the Unhersity of Ark~msas in 1964.. He served fast year as Su"vey Archaeclogist and ·is replacing Joseph Char·tkoff t who has returned to fu11-dme gradua.te studies.. Miss Ca~"'pent..eif• and Mr .. Evans also are graduate students in anthr10-pofogy at UCLA.. The other staff archaeo1ogist of 1966-67 9 Chester D~ K-lo~h has ·re"" eeiv~d his Masters 11 degree in anthropology from UC! .. A and has entered tt.e doctoral program at UC Davis4
David i~., Fredrid<son, who is compleUng hfa doctorate at the Urmr€rsity of CaHfnrnia 11 Davis9 has recently accepted a pos·itfon as Assistant P:"'ofessor of Anthro ... pc fogy at Sonoma State Co Hege;) Rohnert Park, CaHfornia!lt begirmhg Fall 1967 ..
~ Fredrickson will fiil the first permanent position and win deve~op an tmdergraduate major in anthropology, In the fall he vrl11 offer courses in Introductm·y Anthropology';) Indians of North .l\mericils and Archaeology and Society"
Claude Warren has joined the faculty of the Department of J\nthropo1og,y, Univer-sity of Califorrda Santa Barbara(' Warren received his doctorate from UCLA in 1964 and since then taught at Idaho State University~ Poca~elloe From 1959 to 1962 he served at the UCLA Archaeofogical Survey; among the po:t,ts he held were Chief A:rchaeo1ogist and Editor· the Archaeo1oqica1 Survey Am'nm}_~£O}':',,t... His work on the San Diegtritc and re'iated complexes is w·-tde'1y known ..
FORMATION OF THE ARKANSAS ARCHAEOLOGICAL S UR'VEY
The Arkansas Survey was officiany created and given a substantial operations budget by the 1967 le<:Jis1ative session of the Arkansas State Legislature~ The Survey was created to carry out a program irn arch.aeo'logy which includes the fo11owin_g ~rreas:
L Excavation of historical sites!,; ruins::i .and mounds fer the purpose of sectrr•fot~ data and objects r·e 1 at fog to early man in Arkansas"
2·:i Fundamental resea•r,ch in Ai'~kansas archaet) 1 ogy and encouragement of pub} i c cooperation in the ~reservijtion of Arkansas antiouities~ . , '
3.. Research i~ a.rid :stutly of anthropology~ geoloq.Ya and related social aAd phys·ka1 sdentes., both µrior to e~cavat·hm and thereafter in order to plan and a1d in di~~:c·very of sites and art·ifa;;.;ts and their pr~3per ass.:.~s~mernt cnce dfacovered ..
6'5! Educational act·ivities ijrovid·ing a stfomh3s to archaeofoo·ecal ef1~ur·ts and the encouragement o'f archaec:1ogica1 societies~ parks, and museums.,. "
One of the- strong pofots ff the ~urv~y cl'aanization is tha fun nartieipatfrm of alt institutions Of higher 1E1lrrring Hi tne state who i1:r1sh to participat& in the program,. The Survey Staff under- the g1jidance of the Dir~ctor and the State Archaeologist w111
t,.. d 1 ." ... • I ~ ~ " 1 ".ii h ~ ~ oversee the researcfl an . p rnm.ng or tne arc.~aeo wg1 ca program.. r·1EC ~am sms rov- an-ti aui ti es preservation are ldequately set forth and this together with state support~ in
1runds and 1egis1ationss win perhaps be an outstanding example for other states to
fo11ow in creating 'imag·hwtive progr"lams. The Suv·vey. was created by the ded·katfon of the profess fona 1 archaeo l;gis ts and an i nt:eres ted :! concerned citizenry together with an informed 1egis1aturej .
Correspondence wi fa the Arkansas Archaeo 1 og' ca 1 Sur"vey can be addrf!ssed to Dr~ Charles R .. McGimsey ~n~ Director A~Akansas ArcheolrY;scal Sl:a~vey Uni·ver·si tv MuSt::'-~'i Uni vel~s i ty of t\rkansas fayettevi11J~ Arkansas 72101
~E.f~O.f. ... ,. ON~~_?l I SHED MP:~~_Cfil,Ei:s.
WF.JERN REGIOH HEADQUARTERS, NP~TIOMAL PARK SERVICE,, S:f1,N FRANCISCO
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?reHmfaarv fi~por~dza1 of the Archaeoio~rka1 Rssic;urees of Mar·ip()sa Res~v"'ifcir;) Maripo~~a County;) CaH·fornia 91948)
Apprahal of the Arrehaeologica1 Resm~rces o'f Kels~y Creek Rese~voir~ ~ake Co'Ynty '.i Ca 1 ·i forni a { 1948}
nt1e: Appraisa1 of the Archiu~o1ogica1 Re~OUr'!.~es of Mmrtker~o Reservoil" Area, Napa County~ California {1948)
Author: Philip Drucker
Tit1e: Appraisal of the Archaeo'fogica1 Resoure~s of Terminus ResN"~oir~ ru1a-re County, California {1948)
Auther: Philip Drucker
Appr,:~~1.::a 1 ~i\~· :~J~ Ci:~~1%~~·:~~;· ~· c.~ 1 ·r fcrt~r; ~
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t1e: Ap~raisa1 of the Archal!o1ogica1 Resources of Wilson Valley Reservr::rir:i lake Cot.mty i Ca Hfo1~nia (1948}
Author: Phi11p Drucker
Title: Appraisal of the Archaeo1~gica1 Resources and Tuo1umne Countias, CaHfcrn1.a {l949)
Author: David A~ Fredrickson
New Me1ones Reservoir, Calaveras
Title: Appraisal of the Archaeo1cgira1 RescnJrces of Farmington Reservoir~ t itt1e ,Johns Creel<~ San Joaquin and Stanislaus Count-lest: California (1949)
Auther: Francis A .. Riddell
Archaeological Stn~vey and Excavation Along the Tehama-Colusa Cana1 ~ Centra1 Ca H fornfa 1967
Author: Adan£~ Treganza~·Robert L~ Edwards, Thomas Fo King
_?C~ SYMPOSIUM f~BSTRACTS~ 1967 First Annual M~"""'~t~1_tt,,,,....9
In March 1967 the SCA held its F'irst Annual MeetinrJ concurrently w·Jth the SWAAo Tht-ee sympos'ia were organized and papers and discussitms were presented in the areas of Nor~tnern California Archaeology;; Southern CaHfor~nia Archaeo1ogy 9 and Archaeo1ogfr:a1 Methodo1oayo The fo11ow1ng abstracts are from paper$ presented at those symposia ...
SCA SVMPO.SI!JM ON NORTHERN CAUFORNIA ABSTRACTS
Recent Archaeo1ogv fo tfo'.r'thern San fremcis;:o Bay... Two major excavations have re-cerrt1~/ been conductel along the San Frandsco Bay shore of Marin County ti The first site, Mrn-192, was excavated through tht: highway salvage program and r-evea1ed two major 1e'l·e1s of occupancy; one representative of the Middle Horizon, one of the Late Hor·~zon.,. The second~ Mrn-374,., is tmder~ excavation bjr the Novato High Schoo1 fi~1d class and is a Late Horizon site showing evidence of Spanish contact. Evidence from both sites=> coup1ed with other- data~ indicates a considerable population movement fo ... 'land ·in 1ate times~ poss·ib1y related to the coasoHdatirm of the acorn economya
Tom King
~Two Reser-~!r.:drs in the.J!flr~tt!._Cqast Rarqes~. tn the summer of 1966 a fie1d c1~ew jointly sponsored by the Department of Anthropo1oryy) U .. C~ Davis, and the UCL~ t.\rcht4en1ogica1 Survey:- sut"'veycd two proposed North Coast Range reservoirs~ · Paskent~-.. ;\;i.rrn1~ ·In central Glen!'! anri Tehama Cotmt1es~ an<l English Ridg:a on the South Ee1 ·
River in Mendocino and Lake· Counties~ A total of 67 tes was recorded at Paskenta-Newv113e, wh~ 22 were recorded English Ridge~ The predominating site type ~as the ho~sepit vi,l1age located on the terraces of major rivers and.streams,, !n aH cases surface a:vtifacts were so few that,meaningful segregations. into temporal in·;,= range11ents \'ie:e not P?ssib1e .... ,. Ethn?gra!fhic eviden~e (Noml~ki Wintu~ at Paskenta-. Newville~ Huctmom Yuk1 Engnsh R1dge) suggests t:hat bctn reservo1r·ar~as se~vea
.. ... .. . 1 = ... .. • z... .. " "t .. ., • hi . .. .;:.. ~ as w1rrter v1 t ;age locales Tm~ the auor1g1mu peopH?s rn pr01:0 .. stor1c i:~mes ...
Joseph l ~ Ctrartkoff
A Description of Archaeo1oaica1 ·Sites in and around Santa Rosas Ca1iforniao An archaeological site survey fa being conducted in the Santa Rosa area o'f .s·onorna County. This work augments the work done in the 1930 1 s ~Y Mr. Jesse Peter of Santa Rosa" To the twenty-four sites recorded by Pater~ the present project ':has ~dde<l nine hi the~to .. ·unreported si
Thf: majority of. these are _·located a.long the courses of streams and appear to have · -a11 the characteristics ·of late occupancy",, One site, Son-1 ~ appears to be quite
tjifferent9 howeve~"",. .. Examination of a co11ection from the site· r~vealed many poin:ts, as wen as. a· chert eccentric, that are sdmilar to those associated with the Bora}{ L~ke or Mendocfoo Complexes.. Unfortunate1y, the site is a1most tota11y destroyed, ~ut the possibility exists that an e~r1y site component exists in archaeological association With later CC?f?1pOnents~
·. Further, large areas have yield~rl scatterings of concave bas~ points. and other . early-appearing mate.rials,. However!) no mi-r;Jden seems t9. exist in. these arBas ..
Work is C·Ontinujng!! and it will be rerr:;r.ted .in installment fashion' in the: Ma·nuscri pt Seri.es of the NCAS ... ·
Ward Fo Up~on
.r~t,.chaeo1ogical S~rvey of Six Reserv.oirs in th~ Nor·~tj· Coast Rang~o "A. survey six proposed. reservo1r areas 'Wls done by six members oT· the Archae'OTog1ca 1 Survey~ San Francisco State Co11ega!> with .the- advice of Dr. Ao L Treganza~ Parttc~,µcrtiT~g members of the Survey were Robe~--t I;dl.AJards ,. Thomas King, Marion Riggs!) Ro.be-rt · Ost~"'ovsky, Philip Hicks .and Rdbert Schenk.· Wa1.1ace·Woo1fendei1 contriquted to the final r~ports., The re.ports inuica.ted students can ~ndertake and ~ccomplish effec-th·e archaeo1-0gica1 ·surveys.. While standa-rd methodology was .used~ several techniques ··· were tested.. Th€se iriclud-eci hydrogen-ion (pH) ana1ys·Js of· certain sites recommended .for excavation~ intensive commtmication with 1oca1 co11ectors, and u.rimarv histoT.·ieal re~earch with 1oca1 residents~ .Some very int~resting' point types {Mendotino~Crimplex~ Borax La.ke) appeared in 1cca1 co11ectfohs and sites outs5de the reservoir areas. were recorded~ Midden deposits of 1itt1e or no co1or were located in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties. Comp~~isons of 70 sites recorded 25 years _ago for house pit 1o~s revealed a large 1os·s.. ."Pi. 1arge surfac~ collection and extensive fJhoto-·sJide catalog resulted fttom the survey. Trye areas are· rich in historical dqta as we11 as be.ing archaeo1ogica11y important~ Any salvage programs in these areas··shou1d include historical resea~ch as we'f 1 as intensive archaeo1og1cal investigations~
Robert L Edwards
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Eeff·1y San. Franc~sco_ Bay-Sae~amento River D!:llta· Rcl:ationstrfos., this paper concentr& tes on tvm p.01 nts:
1.. The 1 ack of archaeo 1 ogi cal support for the ganera 'i 1y accepted assumpti ems that the B1ossum Site is the most rece;nt of the Wfodmiller fades components and
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SCA SYMPOS IUt" ON SOUTHERN CALI FORii H\
Fjeld opertions of the Medea Creek Project \ilere comp1eted December, 19660 The project is bein conducted under the auspices of the UCLA Archaeological Survey, as one facet of th~ Santa Monka ~·1ounta ins Researcr Project. ~4edea Creek.., near !\gom"'a, California~ is l;~ated 10 miles inland at the S0uthernmost boundary of Chumash speakers4 The s~~1e of 419 ske1etons! or 1001~ offers a unique opportunity in Ci111fo;nia for stc..istica1 contro'.l in the anahsis of demogr·;:1phy]J sk@1eta1 stuci~:::s i
and social orqani zr. ~ion.
Linda Barbey
Sam~1ing at Ven.;2i The usefulness of 1JT'obabi1ity sampling (and other samolinq techniques) is beinq dE~nstrated by the UCLA Spring field class (Anthro. 181) at an fohnd Chumash site nar Thousand Oaks, CalifO'rn·J,1 .. The sampling techniques eMp1oyed have permitted th definition of accurate boundaries) as we11 as a representativt: sample of the ent\"e communityQ P:ots of the spatia1 dist~ibutions cf ar·ti fact- types and rock f ::J.tures revea 1 non-random chis ters of different k1 nds of materia·is in specific are1. ~.of the site,, It is thus shown that ch"ferent activities were carried on in differ-fat 1oca1 i zed a 1~eas o The damon=.tration that such acti~d tystruc tures is present sugg~ ts that it can be found in other sites as well.
James N,, Hi11
To~ard -~nstructing ·a Furh}:iona1 t_~1X(momv for Fui" \·iestern Preh·i~~gfY .. Ji.rchaeo1o~rica1 Nork in the Far West has teEn hamper'ed by an incr~as~n'J maze of c0nf)Jsinq terms., Confusion is r·at':icu1arly i.i~parent 1n the s~rnthern coasta·1 and
~I ' r.. J.. B • . ... """" • ..,..h • . ... "" ., 4 ... • l • sou1...nern :treat. ·asrn parr;. OT • ... nl reg1on., 1 .e oata are now s: .. rrnc1 .·t.O om: me the majorr problems and prob·lem a,"2as in Far Western prehistory.. Recent interdfa ... dpHnary s tudfes a'ilov-1 a more chse·ly controlled 1lfaw of (1) the arrtitwity of man in the area; (2) the probable cuh:u"al asscc·!ations; and (3) man;s reaction to chanryes in t;;e c1imate and e(:O 1oqy. To ~~xpress these ViH'YhiG rese1nb 1 ances and differences"' the authors propos12 a "evised ta.;mnomic system for Hes tern archaeo 1 ~-'~lY ..
The ex:::avatfons at the Hammack St:rett site (Ui.n-194) revea1 ·;r;h~ remains from .:.cdvi ti Es of the Indians living fo the 1.~rea between "1825 and 1 .. 1H this
Indiiins were living on the lands of t.~e Rancho Ballona., The sHes' geology ;::L1•.:::s it on the edge of a ·iaaoon at a tirn:: when the ·Los r\nge1e:s river was f1cvdng
Manb. LakJ.: Problems~ an J.\lternate View., Archaea~og-·ica1 investigatfon ·fo Coyote Basin indicates occupancy during the Pa.leo·~Indian and Archak stages. Thr pattern of s Hes is dh·i ded betwe;,m quarry-l~orkshops and open camps.. Quarry-worts hop ass em~· b1ages suggest the activities of stone· tool product'icm and woodworking3 #hfle campsite assemblages consist of more de'licate stone work from several peri~Js., Quarryworkshops are localized in one area, and can be correlated with camps Jf the lake Mojave~ Arnar>gosa and Vanyume patterns .. Material ana1ysis indicates t~1at quarry-workshops and camps assemblages reflect a division of work acthdties~ r~~ther than a chrono1ogica1 d1stinction~
Tf.rry J. Prewitt.
The Santa Monica fli1ountains Research Project was hritfated b the Spring of 1966 by the staff of the UCU~. Archaeo1ogka1 Survey.. The p:ro.ject serves a number of ·· ·.. c· .!I. ... .a • • -s• t A. .J:: 7·4. • !1 -runc-c1 ons II' ~ n·~ ~, 1 t , s a means wnereoy ~ne va s amoun (..s o J i ;..era tu re com:erni nn this area can be centralized,, ln the same Hght9 it is desig1u:d to utilize many previously unrecognized sources of data collection~ 'dz~ low(:r division natt.H'·a.1 science classes~ It a1so provides a nearby field situation for graduate and undergraduate students.
In summary, th·~s project is aimed at the articttlatfon of nat.u?'a1 historical data with past and current archa-eo1ogica1 fie-hi excavations and s~rveys to produce a mot~e complete and fote111gib1e picture <.rf the aboriginal cccui:iation of the Santa '.'1onica Mc\mtafos ...
Ne1son Leonard
SCA SYMPOSIUM ON METHODOLOGY
Coo2eration in Short-Term Archaeo1o~:rka1. ~a 1vage,,_ The county of Marin is considering 1egis1ation that would perm'ft 60 days of e;'\cavation cm any site schedu1ed fm" destruction on public or private lands .. Tfds paper is a p1aa for advice and support fo des i gnina an amateur .... prof ess ion a 1 cooperative tc hancn e the many 11ohmteer salvage jobs that will deriv~ from such action.
Tom King
The Uses of the .Svrt!Qt.?.,51!~· It '§:; s1iggf~ste<l that the Society for California i'.\rchaeo1ogy make fu"i1er use of its symposfa in moving toward a better integration of the !Japers presented~ Each session~5 chah"man shou'id recehe written abstracts of an papers two months in advance so that h~ can prepare effective inb·oductorv and ccnciuding statements and connect .c;.~ch paper tc thP. session's topics,. Efforts sno1.ald he made to construct sessi•:ms when poss:ible in which a11 papers contribute
the subject ir. direct .. comp1ementary f:ishion... Probfom· .. !.rt'"1entt::d sessions are suggest~d as b1'~1i1g h-1rd :;:) orcduce hut partkular1y frui tfu1 ~ Pane1 disc:iss. ions
Joseph Chartkoff
The Aw·chaeo1o_£.ka1 Site Sm··ve.}~-1: A Log_ica1 First St.ep in t1e1d Research.\ A research ·orgamzatlon expecting-to fiwest time anonmney ln tn~ study of the· Pl"eMstork past a region should first devote i energies to an assessment of the archaeological as3ets and potenti a 1i ti es of the iH'ea under con~i de ration by means of surf ace surveys . A3ide -from ·· emergency salvage operaHonSi~ excavat1ona1 activities shou1d be postponed untfl such an assessment is completed.. In undertaking a sur-face sunte.Y, it \'fiH be found that a sma11 r-eg·iona1 study~ an intensive reconnaissance of a limited district,. normally contributes more to understanding of. ona1 prehistory than wide-~t·angin9~ scattered work... Each archaeo-'inqical site'1 no matter how sman anrl hew seemingly insignificant)) shou1d rt::corid:=d as a separate t; there should be no il1ampe~s 11 in fie1d survey crew~L From a properly...-conducted reconna·issance 9 the archa.eo1ogist not only obtains an inventory of sites but gains some idea of the cultures
- i b't .. t ,,,. ·'0 • • .. ', ., <!.. ' present~ ues.ra'.e s1 es tor tuture exc~vat1on can aiso oe spo~tea.
William J~ Wallace
QatE_ Prgcessfog__~~g_ its Jmport~,!ice to CatLforni~,llf.-teo1~t.<) The acc:umu1ation archaeologica1 data fo California makes it impera.tive that new methods for storage
a:nd $.cess of this data be made avaflab1e an researchers in California archaeofog_y,, Modern data r.n··ocessing tedmiques can be aup11ed to this body of data'* It win be expensive;) and there are many immedia problems when data analysis systems are apµHed the data in its present fo1"m.. However'$> thought shou1d be 91ven to this research too 1 which can br·t ng about a usefu 1 orgarrI zati on of the information from archaeo1ogi reconnaissance'} excavation and wirl faci 1itate the pubHcatfon of researi;h
James Toney
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