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• SOCIETY FOR CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY NEWSLETTER VOLUME 11 NO. 6 DECEMBER 1977 ~!OMHU._TIONS OPEN FOR 1978 OFFICERS CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 1978 SCA MEETINGS Please submit names of people you would like The Annual Meeting of the Society of California to see as SCA leaders for f978 to the Chairmen Archaeology will be held on March 16, 17 and 18, 1978, of the Nominations and Election Connnittee, at Yosemite National Park, Meetings will be at Ed Kandler and :CU1ss Kaldenberg, CuIT'J Village in the Park. Since ballots will go out with the February Proposed symposia and individual paper proposals Newsletter, members are asked to send the name should be submitted by Januar.y 31, 1978, to Program and adress of nominees as soon as possible to Chairman David Fredrickson (Department of Anthropology, one of the Chairmen, Permission of the nominees Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928). should be received first, and nominees IIIUst be Th!phasis this year will be on Regional Research, so SCA members at the time of the election. papers on this subject will be especially welcome. An abstract of approximately 100 words should be Ed Kandler can be reached at this address: included on the form enclosed with this Newsletter. Ed Kandler SPNED-EI, U.S. Corps of Engineers, 2if Main Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. LOCAL ARRA.i~GEMENTS INFORMATION FOR ANNUAL MEE'l'INGS Russ' address is 831 Barstow Road, Barstow, CA 92311 • Persons wishing to make reservations at Yosemite for the period of the Annual Meetings may make them for either the Curry Village location (where the meetings will be held but food is not available) or SCA INTERN CHOSEN at Yosemite Lodge (where food service is availab1e but meetings will not be held). Costs for hotel • The SCA Executive Board has selected Clyde E. rooms at the Lodge are 129.68 per person per day Kuhn as SCA Intern to work on developing a grant or $24.38 per person (with an additional S3 or 14 proposal for an SCA-related research design. The foI each additional person in a room). Charges for selection follows a search and screening program cabins with bath at Curry Village are 116.43 per conducted for the Society by the California person per night, or 19.54 per person without bath; Environmental Intern Program of San Francisco, these charges are good for up to 4 people, with in which a number of applicants were considered. each additional person charged an extra l3 or 14 Kuhn will develop a proposal or proposals for per night. Meetings will be held March 16 (Thurs.) submission to different foundations, to be ready through March 18 (Saturday), so those attending may by March 1, 1978, and involving an evaluation of want to arrive the preceding evening, March 15, problems within California archaeology and develop ment of a structure within the Society to deal with Reservations should be made by sending these problems. He will work in consultation with a reservation request (on a fonn_ supplied by Dave Fredrickson, as Northern California Vice the Park reservation office, if such a form is President, and will spend approximately two months included with your copy of this Newsletter), with in developing the grant proposal. (See minutes of the first nightts deposit, to the following address: October 22 Executive Board meeting for further details). lla.rbara Garcia Conference Reservation Dept. Yosemite National Park, CA 95389 NEMBERSHIP LIST FOR 1977 (Phone Area 209+373 4171). Camping facilities are frf course also available Please check the Membership List 1977 to see if at Yosemite National Park, and should not be too your name and address are listed correctly. The list difficult to ohtain since the meetings will be is complete through December 1, 1977. before Faster vacations. If t:>:"avel assistance is needed between Fresnfr A membership renewal form and envelope will go and Yosemite, you may contact Dudley Varner, Annual out to aJl members with the February issue of the Meeting Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Newslette:c, so that it can be returned with the ballot California State University, Fresno, 93710. for election of 1978 officers. If you wish to pay early, you may send your money to CSU, Fullerton-but Pre-registration infonnation will appear in it will be easier to deal wit'1 ballots and renewals the next Newsletter, and will be handled at CSU, • in February. Fresno. COSO HOT SPRINGS NOMINATION IN PERIL Nomination of Caso Hot Springs, in the China Next News Lake Naval Weapons Center, to the National Register of Historic Places may not be accomplished because of opposition by the Navy, according to informed Deadline sources. Everyone who wishes to express interest in nomination of this important location should • write to: Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper of" the Jan. 14 National Register Office of Archeology and Historic .Preservation U,S. Department of the Interior Washington, D.C. 20240 WORK AVAILABLE· ON WARM SPRINGS DAM PROJEX>T Carbon copies should also be sent to the California The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco State Historic Preservation Office in Sacramento. District, will be contracting for historical, ethno graphic, and archeological services in connection with the construction of Warm Springs Ilam-Lake Sonoma, Sonoma County, California. The project includes LOS ANGELES TIMES approximately 17,000 acres, with about 95 sites of 4/19/77 Part 2, pages 1-2 known cultural significance. Briefly, the work will 10/15/77 Part 2, page 14 entail: 1. Historical research, including strong com ponents of oral history and ethnohistory, to provide FORMS FOR SCA DIRECTORY OF CONSULTANTS mitigation-level and interpretive program documentation and materials on the settlement of the project area Included with this issue of the Newsletter are by non-Indian peoples, as well as a chronicle of application forms for persons or organizations settler-Indian contacts. Special emphasis shall be who wish to be included in the 1978 edition of the on the background of sites which have been deemed SCA Directory of Archaeological Consultants, and eligible for inclusion in the National Register of a list of minimum criteria which nmst be met for Historic Places, which includes the Skaggs Springs inclusion. A processing fee of $8.00 should be area. Coordination with and participation by local sent with the notarized application to James Rock, historical societies and archival repositories will Chairman of the Directory Committee: be emphasized. James T, Bock 2. Ethnographic research among Cloverdale Pomo and • Klamath National Forest other Indians with ancestral relationships to the .1215 South Ma.in project area who were not contacted during initial Yreka, CA 96097 surveys. Facilitation of the establishment of an on-going working relationship between the Corps and Native Americans with affinities to the project area, SYMPOSIUM ON THE CALIFORNIA ISLANDS. Special attention will be paid to development of management programs for ethnobotanical resources of A "Multidisciplinary Symposium on the California the project, and formulation of plans for Indian- Islands", to be held at the Santa Barbara Museum of related interpretive programs. Natural History on February 27 through March 1, 1978, will include invited and contributed papers on a 3. The initial phase of archeological work will variety of scientific topics relating to the include the formulation of a research design for islands off the California and Baja California both prehistoric and historic archeological site coasts. A brochure describing· the meetings states: preservation and data recovery, and the accomplish ment of such work within the zones what will be "The puxposes of this gathering are to summarize affected by construction through Fiscal Year 1979. and advance our knowledge of the California Islands. Problems related to the inundation of archeological We are providing a forum for all those concerned with sites and data will be examined in depth, with island processes in general, and· with this unique petroglyph preservation and relocation being given fringing archipelago especially. Emphasis will be special consideration. Planning for interpretive on the life and earth sciences,·including the fields use of archeological sites and data will be initiated. of evolutionary biology, ecology, biogeography, paleontology, geology, marine science, and Further information may be obtained from Dr. anthropology," Richard N. Lerner, Anthropologist, Environmental Branch (Phone 415 556-6665). Parties who may want Michael Glassow, UC Santa Barbara, has been to be considered for all or portions of this work invited to speak on "Recent· Developments in Archeology" should file Standard Form 254, "Architect-Engineer on Monday evening, Feb. 27, at 8:00 P.M. Contributed and Related Services Questionnaire," with the: papers (15 minutes in length) will. be offered on Feb. 27 and 28. (Deadline for abstracts was December 1, Secretary, Selection Board unfortunately too early for the current Newsletter U,S, Army Corps of Engineers to get the word out in time). Registration fees 211 Main Street of $5 for students, $10 for professionals should be San Francisco, CA 94105 sent along with one's name, institution, address, and phone number, to the conference convenor: Dr. Dennis Copies of the form may be obtained, at no cost, M. Power, Director, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural from the same address. History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Preregistration is urged strongly. RICHARD N. LERNER 8/29/77 • 2 AND CALTRANS AGREE ON I-15 ARTIFACTS primarily gatherers, rather than hunters, that they buried their dead in flexed position with "A disagreement between the Luiseno Indians and cherished possess1on:s, that tney were oy Yaleo Caltrans over what to do with Indian artifacts dis Indian:s (sic) of the San Dieguito culture and covered in the right-of-way of a proposed 2-mile disappeared about 2,000 years ago as the Luiseno section of Interstate 15 north of Escondido has been and Kumeyaay Indian cultures appeared in this area.