r SOCIETY FOR CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY l
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2 JUNE 1971
From the New President .. • The coming year will prove a test of the .vitality of the Society, as each year should. SPECIAL COMMITTEES Its success will not be judged so much by what Insurance Jay Von Werlhof milestones are concluded by the arbitrary date Ora-58 Keith Dixon that brings to an end the term of the present Historical Societies Paul Chace officers, but by whether archaeologists have 1972 Meeting Program Keith Dixon grown to work together more effectively toward Legislation Liaison Darrell Johns the achievement of common goals. President-elect amendment Paul Schumacher Native American Policy Mike Moratto CURRENT ACTIVITIES OF SCA: Santa Monica Mountains Nelson Leonard ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGISLATION Highway Salvage Nelson Leonard The course of AB 1788 and SB 215 will be a Desert Archaeology Larry Bowles central concern to us all. r introduction is San Diego Regional Ron May a signal milestone that few us foresaw two Ventura Regional R.O. Browne years ago, but their passage is what counts. Boise-Cascade Astrid Wilsrud They could die in committee. Only if you, the liducation Dean Gaumer archaeological public, make known to your legis North Coast Ranges Mark Kowta • lators the importance of legislation to protect Membership Dean Gaumer the evidence of California's past, will they be Water Resources Dean Gaumer fully appraised of its significance and potential Funding Roberta Greenwood contribution to the state. It is the nature of the legislative process that only a few archaeolo ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORTS gists will be in face to face contact with the legislature. Those few are devoting more of their _State agencies are now required to develop time and energy to the process than you can Env~ronmental Impact reports prior to any modifi conceive. Support their requests for letters cation of the landscape. The Office of Cultural promtly, for without your support, all their Resources in the Department of Parks and Recreation efforts could be wasted. h~s been the sole agency for evaluating archaeolo ~ical reso~rces on all these projects, but in fact NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE is not equippe? to handle these reports adequately, Mike Moratto is drafting a constitutional for they come in huge quantity. As an interim amendment that will add to the Code of Ethics a procedure, we are asking Cultural Resources to pol regarding materials significant to the route these to the SCA District'Archaeologists via cultural heritages of California Indians. We seek the SCA Highway Committee. In some cases the to put into words the traditional ethics of District Archaeologists may be able to sp~t responsible archaeology. This amendment should potential danger to significant archaeological be ready for review and voting by the membership resources and begin to work with the threatening before the next Annual Meeting. Putting words on acency during ~he planning phases of the proposed paper is but the first step in developing a new w~rk. We realize th';lt. the District Archaeologists working relationship with peoples rightfully con will not be in a position to field check all cerned about the remains of their past. requests, but ask that if the area threatened is unsurveyed for sites, they respond with a statement EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES of estimated time and costs involved in preparing Most of the work ~one by the SCA is accomplished through its many executive committees. Members can become involved with the activities NO SUMMER ISSUE OF THE SCA NEWSLETTER of a committee by contacting its chairman. Because of the traditional difficultic~ STANDING COMMITTEES CHAIR.MA}/ involved with publishing a summer i:;su<' 11·ith Public Relations Roger Desautels a large percentage of people in the f L ;' l J, i Publicity To be arranged there will be no summer issue of the' \. ,·; : TTc ·..:, • Elections To be arranged but instead a special double SummL'r FL,·U11c1r1' General Planning Dick Has Report Issue. I Newsletter Linda King ~eep in mind in the cour,;e of ,.,,ur ,;;1'lt11\cr Publications Tom King proJects that the NEWSLETTER 1rnulcl l ii-,, t,, Archives of California print a report and photographs Archaeology Winn Henn . DEADLINE FOR NExT rs.:w1:: uCTot)rn SrH I ...... a proper estimate. By this means evidence for the response to last month's appeal for letters need for a better funded program will accumulate. addressed to the Planning and Land Use Committee members. Letters are again needed, this time PRESIDENT-ELECT addressed to the Assembly Nays and Means Committee. Paul Sctumacher is drafting a constitutional There are 21 members en this committee as opposed amendment following the resolution passed at the to only 7 for Planning and Land Use, so' it is. Annual Meeting that the SCA elect a President going to take an even greater effort on your elect to servp on the Executive Committee for the part if we are to be successful. year prior to his presidency. We hope to have this Members ~f the Assembly Ways and Means Committee ready in time to effect next year's election. followed by their office n~mbers are: FINANCES Willie L. Brown, Jr,, Chairman 319 Frank Lanterman, Vice Chairman 3120 Those who attended the Annual Meeting in Robert E. Badham 5126 John Francis Foran 5122 Sacr'lmento will recall dis ;.;_-; 'o;: there of a William T. Bagley 2188 Jam~s·A. Hayes 3098 special assessment of the members; the Executive E. Richard Barnes 5140 Ken MacDonald ·4149 Committee has not acted on this, although the Frank P, Pelotti 5156 John J. Miller 2151 Society is financially crippled. The provident ·John L. Burto~ 3173 Carley V. Porter 2148 election of Robe.rta Greenwood as treasurer is Joh L.E. Collier 3130 Leo J. Rvan 5128 resulting in the stra tening out our our Mrs. Pauline Davis 4148 Peter F.' Schabarum 5164 business affairs. All papers have been filed to Charles Warren 2126 John Stull 3143 establish our tax-exempt status, but we do not yet John F, Dunlap 5136 John Vaconcellos 5150 know if we will be held liable for back taxes that accrued diring the delays that have haunted our tax status situation. LETTERS TO YOUR ASSEMBLYMAN 1N SUPPORT OF AB 1788 At worst, funds presently in the treasury will ARE NOW NEEVEV cover all moneys potentially due the gQvernment When A.B. 1788 passes from the Assembly Ways and perhaps permit continued publication of the and Means Committee, it will immediately go ~ewsletter. Because of this we have had to request to the Assembly floor. With this in mind, you that no committee make expenditures requiring should now write to your individual Assemblyman reimbursement. At best, should we be relieved of asking him to support th legislation. back taxes it will be a meagre year, with revenues insufficie~t to support the normal activities of the Society. This is extremely discouraging in SB 215 STRIPEV ANV AMENVEV view of the active year facing the Society. We can project about $1000 of expendible funds during On May 13 1971, representatives of the the term of the current officers. Last term, the Department Public Works, Division of Parks and Society spent about $2500. Recreation, Archaeological Research Incorporated, Rather than moving toward an assessment now, and SCA met with Bill Kier of the Senate Research I ask each of you to make a contribution to the Office, Martha Gorman of Assemblvman Knox's Society, in ke~ping with your means. Elsewhere Office, and Bill Burnett from Senator Harmer's in the Newsletter, you will see a suggestion that office to discuss the fate .of Senate Bill 215 .• members register with their local speakers bureau At the meeting were Will Peak, Jerry Johnson, and donate the honoraria to the Society. In Darrell Johns of the SCA; Dave Fredrickson, Tom this way you can serve your community and profes Carroll, and Dave Theobald of the Department of sion or avocation as well as the Society. Or if Public Works; Casy Buchter and Frit~ Riddell of you would rather, send your own contribution the Department of Parks and Recreation; and directly to the Society. Make checks out to Roger Desautels representing A.R.I. The Society for California Archaeology; they It was agreed at this meeting to strip S.B. should be sent to Roberta Greenwood, 725 Jacon Way, 215 and ammend. it so as to create a Task Force Pacific Palisades, 90272. within California Government which would evalu ate the archaeological resources of the state of "IARGARET WEI~E California and formulate a general plan for their SCA President salvage. Archaeolog~sts, California Native June 7, 19 71 Americans, and state agencies would be represent ed. Norman Livermore, Secretary of the Resources Agency, agreed to handle appointments and facili ties for the Task Force, which would report to the legislature in 1972 concerning needed legis Legislation lation. S.B. 215 in no way conflicts with A,B. 1788, and could be a very useful companion bill. AB 1788 PUT OVER UNTIL JUNE 27, 1971 Assembly Bill 1788 was scheduled to be heard SB 215 HEARV BEFORE GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION before the Planning and Land Use Committee on COMMITTEE: PUT OVER FOR ONE WEEK June Jl,, 1971. Due to the extremelv long rt.genda Senate Bill 215 was heard befor~ the Senate. of bills, however, our bill was µut over '(;r Governmental Committee on June 10, 1971. three weeks. Nelson Leonard, Chief Archaeoldgist Testifying in favor of Senator Harmer's bill were of the UCLA Archaeological Survey, testified in Casey Buchter from the Department of Parks and favor of the bill before the ruling to postpone Recreation, and Darrell Johns from SCA. the h-earing on A.B. 1788 was made by the Chairman Opposition to the bill was expressed by Bob of the Committee. If you have not yet sent your Reid, representing the Tuolumne Rancheria, The letters in support of A.B. 1788, the delay in opposition expressed by Mr. Reid is indicative of the hearing will give you the opportunity to the lack of communication between the Indians who still do so. are concerned with protecting recent cemeteries. and the archaeological community. LETTERS TO THE ASSEMBLY WAVS ANV MEANS COMMITTEE. The bill was put over for one week before a NEEVEV NOW FOR AB 1788 vote is taken on the bill's passing from committee, The prospects for A.B. 1788 passing from the and the Native Californians from the Tuolumne Assembly Planning an
NEWS OF THE PROFESSION
WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND no federally-owned property is demolished until jts historic significance has first been reviewed, 1 HISTORICAL PRESERVATION Today I am directing Federal agencies to begin In a May 13 press release President Nixon evaluating their properties to determine which expressed his concern that Federally owne~ may possess historic, archaeological or archi historic and archaeological sites have failed to tectural significance. This comprehensive evalua be entered on the National Register of Historic tion of all currently owned Federal properties is Places, In President Nixon's words, to be completed by July 1, 1973. Until that tim<' "One reason for this lag appears to be that Federal ag.encies will exercise caution to assun' State and local historic preservation officials that properties which might qualify for li~ting have been reluctant to undertake surveys and on the National Register of Historic Plan'~ at'<' • evaluation on Federally owned property. This has not inadvertently transferred, sold, Jl'm11 l l ~h,•d 1't' to change. It is time for a truce between the altered. In addition I am directing th<' 1:,,d,•ral bulldozer of progress and the treasures of the agencies to encourage and cooperate with Stat~ American past. and local historic preservation offkial~ in "In my Environmental Message last February, I making surveys on Federally O\Vllt'd pt'O!'t't't~'. announced that I would take action 'to insure that "Besides providing an t':rnmplt' ot' lt1111lt't'ship ARI'S ACTIVITIES. DESERT PROTECTION The U.S. Senate Interior Subcommittee on CUYAMA RIVER VALLEY PROJECT Parks and Recreation is currently considering An interim renort of Phase I work on sites legislation to regulate the use of off-road 4-SBa-585 and 4-§Ba-586 in the Cuvama River vehicles on federal lands. There are now Valley has been in preparation du~ing the last estimated to be over a million motorcycles, two months by Stweart Martin and Elisabeth Satow. 700,000 pickup trucks, 600,000 four-wheel drive The record will be submitted to the California vehicles, 80,000 snowmobiles and 50,000 dune Division of Highways within tl1~ next two weeks • buggies in use on the western public domain lands and will be used to evaluate the funding of a administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Phase II project. It is being retomm~nded that Among the obvious deleterious effects, archaeolo the second phase of the project be funded because gical sites are being destroyed by these vehicles, of the findings of Phase I. These include the as well as being outright looted and vandalized discovery of many large "roasting pits" which are by the people who would otherwise never walk to unique to th~ valley, and the fact that both such places. sites reveal "stratification". Letters to government officials urging establishment of federal controls are needed. IRVINE COMPANY GRANT To be most effective you should briefly describe Under terms of a grant recently awarded to effects (e.g. erosion, wildlife destruction, Archaeological Research, Inc., ARI is designated littering, site damage, etc.) that you have as consultant to The Irvine Company and coordinator personally observed. of all scientific studies conducted on the com pany's undeveloped properties, including archaeo- Letters should be sent to Senator Alan Bible, logical projects. · Chairman, Senate Interior Subcommittee on Parks All scientific projects, from·a variety of and Recreation; and Senator John Tunney, (both disciplines, will be coordinated by ARI, which addressed United States Senate, Washington, D.C. will evaluate each idea or research proposal 20510). In the Department of the Interior involving any part of Irvine'~ 80,000 acres of (Washington, D.C. 20240) letters should be sent property, and pass along their retommendations to to Roger Morton, S~cretary; Harrison Loesch, company officials, who will act on the required Assistant Secretary for Public Land Management; permits. Boyd L. Rasmussen, Director Bureau of Land The grant will enable ARI to push forward on Management' G. Douglas Hofe, Jr., Director, two of the goals established by the firm: 1) Bureau of Outdoor Recreation; Leslie L. Glascow, development of new channels of inter-disciplinary Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and communication between the archaeological and Parks; and John S. Gottschalk, Director, Bureau of related scientific communities, and 2) making the Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. civic, business, and governmental communities For more information contact: aware of their responsibilities toward irreplace MICHAEL KEARNEY able scientific resources by working with them. Dept. of Anthropology The Irvine Company has asked ARI .not to dis University of California close the financial terms of the grant, ·but it is Riverside, California 92502 sufficient to conduct a consulting program on a monthly basis through January 15, 19~2, at which CALIFORNIA INDIM EDUCATION ASSOCIATION time it is subject to renewal. • Future studies will probably range from Saturday, May 22, Region 7 (the San Diego area) of the California Indian Education Associa projects concerned with pre-history to studies of tion held an all-day conference covering a variety present conditions. of topics at Palomar College in San Marcos. ORANGE COUNTY RESEARCH VESIGN. Mike Axford, Region 7's Chairman, anthropolo ·-:._,. gist at Mesa College, and member of SCA, organized ARI's interest in developing a regional a last-minute panel discussion regarding the research design for Orange.Cqunty has been. relationships between archaeologists and Indian heightened by the opportunity the Irvine .Company peo~le. Paul Ezell and Torn King represented has provided them. Therefore, on June 14, 1911 archaeology, and three Indian students repre ARI hosted a meeting for~the purpose of developing sented Indians. About 75 people, Indian and non a plan to formulate and implement a regional Indian, were in attendance .• In general, the research design for such a.plan .. Not only were concerns voiced by the Indians regarded disposal archaeologists and anthropologistsiepresented, of ma ter.ial, feedback to Indian communities, but members from the fields of paleqntqlogy, the benefits of archaeological research to geo~ogy, biology, and related sci~nses wer~. Indian people, and similar matters about which inc1ude~. ARI hopes that careful '.riarning of we could negotiate toward improvement. The meeting goals will provide a significant contribution. did not end with solutions, but it did, hopefully, ARI's work in the region has included conduct open the door to further negotiations in the San ing ~esearch on the Balsa .Chica_propertY at Diego area. TOM KING Huntington Beach and wotkin~~ith ihe ~a~ific Coast Archaeological Society at Black Star Canyon. RIVERSIDE COUNTY TO PREPARE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PLAN They have been involved with projects' at Ora-58, at sites in the areas of Tustin Ei·To~o and ~t The Riverside County Parks Department has several other Orange Countf lbi:a ti('Jns, · retained the services of Phillip Wilke, Survey . ' . . . . . ' Archaeologist at the U.C. Riverside Archaeological ROGE~:J. bE~AUTELS Research Unit, to prepare a comprehensive plan Arqha~oiqga€ai Research, for inventory, acquisition, salvage and . · -. Jnc. · development of archaeological resources in ,1651,Mon~o~ia Ave. current and potential park units. Wilke will Costa Mesa~ CA.92627 be engaged in field checks and library and staff May, 197l-. research, and expects to end the summer with recommendations for an innovative program for POT-HUNTER CITED public-service archaeology on the County level. The County is much to be commended for taking A vandal has been caught.' ,digging. in' '.a- site • on the State Parks prop~r~y ~{~~l~om Reservoir this intelligent step toward the protection and wise use of its prehistoric resources. by a Park Ranger'. The case is .p~nch,ng _in _th'c local courts as of June 3. · - .. TOM KING ' ·.: .. ; ·-· ~; ; .. r . 5 BUCHANAN RESERVOIR: A STUDY OF SOCIAL tnesis awaits analysis and possible future exc. ORGANiZATION ON THE CHOWCHILLA RIVER vation. During August and September, 1971, I hope Riv-464 is the fifth and last site excavat . to conduct research toward my PhD dissertation in in the Reservoir area, and is being recommended the Buchanan Reservoir Region on the Chowchilla to the Department of P~rks and Recreation for River. This area has been intensively investi preservation and development as an interpretive gated in the course of a salvage program conducted unit in the Perris Reservoir Recreation Area. A by San Francisco State College with funding from good deal more excavation will be required before the National Park Service; salvage funds are now the activities and history implicit in this e~haust~~ and destruction of several major sites sprawling site can be effectively interpreted for will begin soon, but there are important the public or for the archaeological community. questions remaining to be answered. Critical TOM KING among these is a problem concerning the interpre June 3, 1971 tation of contrasting sets of mortuary customs represented in several cemeteries dating from a period ca. 2000 years before the present. In a MORONGO-UPPER COACHELLA VALLEY PIPELINE nutshell, one interpretation holds that variabili The Archaeological Research Unit of U.C. ty in these sets reflects change in custom through Riverside is engaged in a survey of the Morongo time, while the interpretation I prefer holds that Upper Coachella Valley Pipeline, under contract the variant customs represent the differential from the National Park Service. This 80 mile behavior of two or more differently ranked sub pipeline will be constructed by the Bureau of populations of a social group on a single time Reclamation and will run from the Mohave River line. Were the latte~ the case, we would have south of Victorville, across the north foot of evidence on the Chowchilla of non-"band" forms of the San Bernardino Mountains, through Yucca and social organization 2000 years ago, a form of Morongo Valleys into the upper Coachella. organization perhaps ancestral to the highly ranked Fieldwork was nearly complete by June 1 and had structures described by C._ Hart Merriam among the revealed no archaeological sites on the right-of Southern Miwok. Rigorous demonstration of the way. existence of such organization at such a time-depth would contribute to the corpus of recent data suggesting that complexly ranked social forms were KERN RIVER EXCAVATIONS typical of California hunter-gatherers, in contra dition to predictions based on the received wisdom Final arrangements have been made for the of most "standard" cultural-evolutionary theory. highway salvage excavations of two sites in the Since all the sites in question have been Kern River Canyon on Route 178 in the Lake Isabella sampled extensively and will be destroyed in the area. Lynne Mouhday will be running the proj.~ near future (most lie on a borrow source inside in the field with the assistance of Chuck Jam the reservoir), I intend to test the alternative (Northern Arizona University), Darrell Johns propositions above through the analysis of com (Sacramento State College), and Dean Gaumer (Yolo plete or near-complete cemetery samples, plus High School). The crew has been filled out with village-organization data, obtained by grading people frrim several other schools in the state. away the middens and completely recording and Excavations will concentrate on the Bodfish recovering cemeteries and structures. area in what is believed to be the site of Palakuc, on of the sites described by Voegelin VOLUNTEERS NEEVEV in her study of the Tubatulabal. Other excava tions will take place downstream of Bodfish in A small grant to cover field expenses has the Delonegha Springs area. A number of mortar unfortunately been refused by the National Science and midden areas are scattered along the north Foundation. Since the sites in question will soon and west sides of the canyon betwe~n the right be gone, however, I am determined to conduct the of-way and the Kern River. project and am now seeking alternative sources of funds and/or heavy equipment. Suggestions from CALVIN H. JENNINGS the membership about where such support might Fresno State College be found would certainly be welcomed, as would June 1, 1971 experienced excavators ready to volunteer three weeks or so of fieldwork on a shoestring. My SUMMER FIELD SCHOOLS summer address is given elsewhere in this issue. 0 TCM KING May 2, 1971 SACRAMENTO STATE COLLEGE's SUMMER FIELD SCHOOLS PERRIS RESERVOIR SALVAGE COMPLETED SHASTA COUNTY Fieldwork has been completed on the Perris Reservoir Salvage Project with the sample excava Sacramento State College will conduct a tion of 4-Riv-464 under the direction of James summer field course in Shasta County. A survey O'Connell of U.C. Riverside. The site, an and excavation program will be conducted to extensive complex of middens, bedrock mortar and explore Quaternary cave deposits in the Lake Shasta slick sites, and pictographs, was excavated by the area. These limestone caverns were the focus of UCR Spring Field Class in cooperation with the one of the earliest scientific investigations to Salvage crew employed by the Department of Parks determine the antiquity of man in the New World, and Recreation. twenty-five years before the Folsom discoverv. Excavation was concentrated on one of the The last few years have witnessed the dis-:c. central terraces of the site, which extends over ery of many fluted points of the Clovis type ir several terraces and ·across a large alluvial fan western states, and some authorities have bet'!\ at the foot of Mt. Russell south of Moreno. prompted to extend the range of this ear L:· Riv-464 was posulated to be the central village tradition to the Pacific Coast. We hopt' L'lll' for a group of central-based wanderers, whose program will provide new data about the L>ri~in temporary hunting and gathering activities were and development of aboriginal culture in rh,, !'.ir represented by the other smaller sites in the West. valley; confirmation or rejection of this hypo- Twenty students will be enrol !eel in th<' course and John L. Beck will direct it; Sam Payne will also participate. THE ROBERT E. SCHENK ARCHIVES OF CALIFORNIA DYE DREEK ARCHAEOLOGY For the fourth season Sacramento State College The SCA Archive series has as its purpose the will conduct a field school in archaeology in distribution of unpublished data on California Tehama County, northern Californi~. This region archaeology and prehistory. was once occupied by the Yana Indians and was The ARCHIVES will receive manuscripts dealing the territory in which Ishi lived. with primary data in California archaeology and, • The school will be housed in an old homestead with a minimum of editorial critique, will make at the Dye Creek Preserve. Patti Johnson will these manuscripts available to those who need be director. them by xerox reproduction at cost. Papers should by typed with a hard black UNLV-UCLA FIELD SCHOOL TO WORK AT GOLETA SLOUGH ribbon or carbon tape on white 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper. They should be neatly single-spaced with Funded by· a grant from the National Endowment ample margins and should be typed on one side for the Humanities, the "Education and Archaeol of each page only. Maps, charts, tables, ogy" summer field school of the University of drawings and photographs should be included as Nevada at Las Vegas and the UCLA Archaeological applicable, but should be on an 8 1/2 x 11 Survey will dir~ct its efforts at one of s~veral format. An abstract must be included with every possible sites on the Santa Barbara coast in the manuscript submitted; it should be about SO to vicinity of Goleta Slough. 100 words long and amplify the title and tell the The field school will be directed by Claude results of the work. Style should generally Warren and Tom King. The excavations will be follow AMERICAN ANTIQUITY or SCIENCE standards. directed toward testing a set of propositions Upon receipt of the paper, it will be reviewed about the evolution of the Chumash generated by for basic style and forwarded to one of three N. Nelson Leonard. Half of the. students enrolled associate editors who will check for relevance to are anthropology instructors in com~unity c?lleges the series. Upon acceptance, the author will in various western states, the remainder being receive an index sheet which will be used to college students with a dire~t in~erest i~ code the paper for rapid retrieval. community education. Much time w~ll be given to Questions concerning the ARCHIVES can be seminars and discussions of teaching problems directed to the Directing Editor, Winfield Henn, and the relation of modern archaeology to the at the A.E. Treganza Museum, San Francisco State teaching of anthropology,_and each tea~her_will College. (94132) generate curriculum materials for use in his own area. The horizons of archaeology will be LIST OF AVAILABLE PAPERS expanded by providing opportunities for ~th~o historic research in the Santa Barbara Mission, #1 TREGANZA, ADAN E., Possibilities of Aboriginal with the kind assistance of Fr. Maynard Geiger. Practice of Marginal Agriculture among the Gary Coombs, Dave Dietrick, Rob Edw~rds, and Southern Diegueno (1946). $1. 25 Ward Upson are serving as teaching assistants, with Jule Edwards as educational consultant and #2 KING, THOMAS F., Avila Beach, Descriptive Nelson Leonar~ as administrative assistant. Data and Hypotheses from the Excavation of • SYMPOSIUM ON CHUMASH RESEARCH 1929 (1970). $2 .OD Instruction at the field school will constantly #3 EVANS, ROBERT K., The Monterey Peninsula re-emphasize the relationships between digging College Sites, Preliminary Report (1967), and the general body of theory and data pertinent to Chumash archaeology. In order to expose the $3.80 sfudenis to various opinions about Chumash pre #4 LEONARD,· N., D. ABRAMS, D. WEIDE, AND M. historic research, a Symposium on Chumash Research SOSIA, Archaeological Salvage of the Pico will be held at the field school beginning Creek Sites, San Luis Obispo County, 1:00 P.M. on June 27, 1971. We hope for a California (1968). $7 .65 free-for-all open ended discussion about the Chumash, 'their prehistory, the~r place in #5 VAN DYKE, S., J, ROBERTSON, S. WILSON, AND the context of general anthropological research, S. DIETZ, Contributions to the Archaeology and the pros and cons of the various approaches of San Mateo County (19 70). $6 .OD that have been taken to their study. Persons who have conducted research in the area have #6 DIETZ, S., AND T. JACKSON, An Archaeological been invited. The Symposium will give the and Historical Reconnaissance of a Portion students an impression of the range and diversity of the San Mateo County Coast-side (1970) of opinions and information about the people they $ 5 .10 will be studying. TOM KING May 14, 1971 #7 MORATTO, MICHAEL J., TsahpekW: An Archaeolo gical Record of Nineteenth Century Accultura- LONG BEACH STATE FIELV SCHOOL AT HIVVEN tion Among the Yurok (1970). $1.00 RESERVOIR #8 MORATTO, MICHAEL J., A Selected Bibliography For the third suc;cessive summer the summer of California Archaeology and Ethnology (1967) session class in field methods in archaeology $2.50 of California State College at Long Beach will conduct excavations at sites in the Hidden #9· TREGANZA, ADAN E., A Reconsideration of the Reservoir on the Fresno River in Madera County Evidence Relating to the Antiquity of the from July 1st through July 31st inclusive. Borax Lake Site (1950). $2.00 Work this summer will be concentrated at Mad-171 and Mad-173, both of which lie on the #10 VAN DYKE, S., An Archaeological Survey of axis of the proposed dam. Access road contract~ the Shaver Lake Area (1970). $2.25 have already been let and this will be the last opportunity to recover information from these #11 HENN, WINFIELD, AND ROBERT SCIIENK, An • important sites, both of which have architectural Archaeological Analysis of Skeletal Material remains, FRANKLIN FENENGA Excavated from the Civic Center Station of California State BART (1970). $1.00 College, Long Beach 1 #12 CHARTKOFF, JOE, The Archaeological Resources #19 RITTER, DALE W., Sympathetic Magic of the of the West Sacramento Canal Unit (1969). Hunt As Suggested By Petroglyphs and Picto $2.50 graphs of the Western United States (1970). $2.00 # 13 SCA GENERAL PLAN COMMITTEE, Outline for an Archaeological Element for the California #20 KING, THOMAS F., Son-320: An Unusual Archaeo State General Plan (1970). $1.50 logical Site on Bodega Head, Sonoma County, California (1960). $1.25 #14 HAMPSON, PAUL R., An Experiment in the • Manufacture of Olivella Shell Beads (1970) #21 TREGANZA, ADAN E., An Interesting Cache of $2.00 Domesticated Seeds from Southern California (1946). $1.10 #15 MORATTO, MICHAEL J., Report of 1970 Arc~aeo logical Excavations at Buchanan Reservoir #22 TREGANZA, ADAN E., Californian Clay Artifacts (1970). $1.75 (1946). $1.75
#16 KING THOMAS F., Test Excavations at Site # 2 3 CHILDRESS, JEFFREY, AND JOSEPH L. CHARTKOFF, 4-So~-392, Near Petaluma, California (1968). An Archaeological Survey of the English $1. 2 5 Ridge Reservoir in Lake and Mendicino Counties, California (1966). $3. 00 #17 KING 1 THOMAS F., Test Excavations at Mrn- 375, The Palo Marin Site in Point Reyes # 2 4 CHARTKOH, JOSEPH L. , A~W cT!ffFREY CHILDRESS, National Seashore, Marin County (1967). An Archaeological Survey of the Proposed $2.50 Paskenta-Newville Reservoir in Glenn and Tehama Counties, Northern California (1966) #18 EDWARDS, ROBEH.T LYN, The Prehistory of the $10.00 Pui'mak Wintun, Thomes Creek, Tehama County, California, Including a Suggested Chrono 1::1 I I 1:1 I I I I I I I lal I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I lzl. I I I I I I I I' logical Model of the Northern Sacramento social organizations, ascribed status and the Valley Region Prehistory (1970). $8.50 presence of socio-technic items as well as ideo technic items (See Tom King's Tiburon Report, the Buchanan article in this NEWSLETTER, Jones's notes on Santa Rosa Island, Walker's descriptions of :! mortuary complexes in the San Fernando Valley, and many other descriptions of Middle Horizon cemeteries in the Sierra Nevadas). It has often been suggested that the Middle Horizon was the result of the development of methods of process ing and storing acorns. I have hypothesized that Review the management of flows into and out of large • storage facilities resulted in the development ?f a manageriRl class in virtually all of California. SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY A number of ethnographically described groups such OCCASIONAL PAPERS No. 3 a.nd No. 4: REVIEW BY as the Southern California Shoshoneans and Sierra CHESTER KING Nevada groups maintained managerial classes who Occasional Paper No. 3: SALVAGE EXCAVATIONS AT regulated the flows in and.out of community ~ood THE FOWLER SITE: SOME ASPECTS OF THE SOCIAL stores in relation to the inhabitants of their ORGANIZATION OF THE NORTHERN CHUMASH, by Joe own villages and between neighboring villages. Tainter: .. These groups also observed mortuary practices and Joe Tainter's paper is a valuable addition to used socio-technic items similar to those of the a growing body of literature concerning the "Middle Horizon." development of the complex socia~ systems ?f the The maintenance of large food stores resulted California Indians. The report is well edited in a relatively constant availability of resources and well illustrated. It presents one of the and the maintenance of optimum p~pulation size few published descriptions of ~ collec~ion of and stability. relatively contemporaneous so~io-tec~nic and ideo Hopefully Tainter's paper will be an important technic items and the respective burials they were stimulus for further consideration of hypotheses associated with for the time period of 400 BC to in problem-oriented archaeology in California. 300 AD ("Middle Horizon") from the Chumash area. ~ainter analyzed the burial plot data on the Occasional Paper No. 4: SKELETAL ANALYSIS OF basis of criteria which have been postulated to SLo-406, by Gary L. Warren: indicate status ascription and concludes tha~ the This paper is a description of the human presence of many socio-technic items and their. remains from the Fowler Site. association with infants indicate that the social Chester D. King group represented in the cemetery maintain~d Editor's Note: Copies of this report may be hereditary positions of rank. He hypothesized obtained from SLOCAS, 1371 Avalon Street, San that Santa Barbara Channel groups were non Luis Obispo, CA 93401: Price, $3.25, 25¢ egalitarian because they relied on nets and canoes mailing charge. for subsistance; the corresponding management and ownership of these facilities resulted in a non egalitarian society. The non-egalitarian social MIMERAL KING,& KERN r~ATIOMAL \4/ILDLIFE REFUGE organization of the Channel is suggested as REPORTS AVAILABLE causing the development of similar social organi zation in the San Luis Obispo area in order to During the past year reports have been • maintain a balance of power between competing San completed on the reconnaissance in t~e Mineral Luis Obispo and Channel groups. King District and the salvage of burials . Tainter's hypotheses deserve to be expanded disturbed by land leveling at the Kern National upon and discussed, as more can be said about Wildlife Refuge. A limited number of mimeo- Middle Horizon sites. Data from a large number graphed copies of these two reports are available of Middle Horizbn cemeteries throughout California to interested parties upon request. indicate the presence of hC'ir:1rrhically or I NEW CARV PUBLICATION DIRK C. CLODFELTER, 1946-1971 The Center for Archaeolog~cal Research at Davis has put out a second ~ublica~ion, Pa~ers Dirk C. Clodfelter, a graduating senior in en California and Great Basin Prehistory. ~en the San State College of Paper5 are presented. Anthropology, has met an untime death while "Turtle Bone Artifacts from Pinnacle Point camping on Palomar Mountain. semester just Cave (4-Tuo 272, Tuolomne County, California," prior to finals Dirk would pack up his books and by John Beck cribes an assemblage of per- seek the seclusion of the mountains or desert forated tur bones which apparently represent to study and commute with nature. On this • offerings dropped with the dead into a vertical particular occassion, Dirk misjudged the limestone cave. innocence of his fellow creatures and was struck Richard Casteel's ·~real Distribution of the by a rattlesnake. Native Freshwater Fish Fauna of California" lists Dirk's devotion to nature and all living things freshwater fish species on the basis of ~heir goes beyond words; even when struck by the snake distribution within ten drainage areas of the it is doubtful tha~ he would have thought of state. killing it. To him, anthropology is a proiection "Notes on the Archaeology of the Sutter of man's interest in the balance or unbala~ce of Buttes, California," by Peter M. Jensen ives an nature. Poverty was only a state of mind which outline of the history of the subsis ettle- ':'ould vanish ':'hen he left the city. Of particular ment system of the Buttes. interest to him was the apparent homeostasis of "Archaeological Investigations at the prehistoric men in the natural environment. Applegate Site (4-Ama-56) ," by Jerald Jay His le contributions were few for he Johnson, reports on excavations of a site, the was an ing student and had not the oppor- bulk of the material from which is from the early tunity to apply his skills and knowl Middle Horizon, and a small portion from the Late He had participated in a number of ological Horizon Phase I (A.D. 300-1400). Information excavations in Southern California and had about the transitional period between Early and co-direeted two La Jollan site exc~vations. Middle Horizon is also provided. Twice he had traveled to Cedros Island to help In "The Pollen Evidence for a Recent Arboreal Tom Banks survey and track down the clues to Transgression into Grass Lands in Central Calif ancient men's adapation in Baja California. ornia," R.G. Matson discusses pollen diagrams that A memorial fund in memory of Dirk C. indicate a recent arboreal invasion of traditional Clodfelter will be used for the purchase of new California grassland areas due to factors such as books for the San Diego State College Anthropolo- modern fire control and grazi_ng. gy Research Center. RON MAY Louis A. describes "A Spearthrower (Atlatl) from er Creek Cave, Shasta County, San Diego S College California," that was found associated with composite darts and which is not unlike specimens from the Southwest. paper ~eports_the res~lts of site surveying and Eric W. Ritter's "Northern Sierra Foothill tes! pitt in the ~idden Reservoir area during Archaeology: Culture History and Culture Process" 1961-1968, and also includes the description of proposes a cultural.historical framework derived several local collections. Copies may be primarily from archaeological investigations near obtained by sending $3.25 to: Oroville. He discusses hypotheses concerning Archaeological Re~earch Associates • techno-economic changes and the implications to c/o Archaeology Section the demographic, socio-political and subsistence L.A. County Museum of Katural History adaptive systems. 900 ition Blvd. In "Solar Burial Orientation and Los , CA 90007 Paleodemography in the Central California Windmiller Tradition," Peter D. Schulz examined the orienta·· THE DEAD AT TIBURON tions of burials from four Windmiller Tradition sites and found significant correlations with the Northwestern California Archaeological north-south of the setting sun- a correlation Society Paper Number 2, THE VEAV AT TIBURON by which provides formation about seasonal death Tom King is still available to those who would rates and lends tentative weight to previous wish to purchase it. The cost is $1.75 which suggestions concern the importance of hunting inclu~es postage and handling.· Orders can be in the Windmiller subsistence base. sent in care of: In "Artiodac.tyls and Man in. the Prehistoric Tom Jackson Great Basin," David H, Thomas discusses an increase of deer remains in sites within the last 1000 A.E. Treganza Anthropology Museum years, using data from four sites in northwestern San Francisco State College Nevada. 1600 Holloway Ave. D.L. True and Fred M. Reinman, in "An Intru San Francisco, CA 94132 sive Cremation fr a Northern Arizona Site," describe a on and conclude that it was GREAT BASIN ANTHROPOLOGY ... ABIBLIOGRAPHY an intrusive Hohokam burial into a camp site midden occupied at least in part by the oric . "Great Basin Anthropology ... 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