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Regular Features From the President Stephen Horne ...... ~ SCA Business and Activities Legislative Liaison Reporl ...... •...... 4 Archaeology Month Report...... • ...... 6 CASSP Report ...... 6 Aquarterly nl!\\l>lencr or articles and infom1allon NAPC Report ...... • ...... 6 e:..-.cnlial to Cahfomia archaeology. Contribuuoru. are\\drome Lead article. ~hould be 1,500·!,000 Proceedings Reporl ...... 7 word' Longer article, may appear in iru.tallmems SM Liaison Report ...... 7 Send ~ubn11~1oru. ru. hard cop)' or on diskeue to SCA 2007 ~ l eeting Wrap ...... •...•...... •...... •...... •.... \1?1"/ell<'f. l>t.vartment or Anthropology. CSl Chico. Annual 9 Chico CA 95929-()..iO I or as e-mail or auachment:. to Web Sites of Interest ...... 21 <1,'Wh1t~(it csuch1co.edu> New Publications ...... 22 The SCA Executive Board encourages publication or News and Announcements a wide range or opinions on L-sues pertinent U> Announcements ...... 14 California archat•ology. Opinions, commentary, and On-Line Resources ...... 16 editorials appearing in 01e t\e1~5'letter represent the I iC\I'<; or the author.>, and not neces.>aril) those or the Meetings ...... 16 Board or Editor Lead article author.; should be aware The Archaeology Channel.org ...... 17 that their articlei. may appear on the SCA web site, unit", they n.'(jue>t othern1;e. Opinion and Commelll ...... 19 Calendar of Events ...... -i"' Ed11onal St:11I ~lanagmg F.d1tor Greg \\bite (530) 898-4360 [email protected] Documenting Colonial C1Ll.ifomia Contribuung F.d1toc M:.i!llant Editor...... Patricia]. :.likkelsen Methodologies for Documenting Colonfal California: Curation ...... Cindy Stankowski Case Studies from El Presidio de San Francisco Federal Agcl1C) i\(.'I~\ • • • ...... Jim C:L<;)idy Liz N. Clevenger, Eric Brandan Bli nd, Field NOie.' ...... Michael Sampson ;md Sannie Kenton Osborn ...... •...... 22 Jhqorical Archaeology . . R. Scott Baxter lnfonnatmn Ccntcl'\ ...... An1y lluberl:md :\l'\1 Pubhc:111oru. • • • .. Deime Thomru. 111e Tama.t-Huye Archaeological Project: OHP • • . • ~lichael ~lcGu1rt l..t.>gisl:ttion . . • • • Stephen 8r111e Cross-Cultural Encounters in Sixteenth-Century No1thern California CASSP . Chris and Beth Padon ~latthew A. Russell ...... 22 State Agenq t\l!\\'i> .... open
t\en~/etter Deadlme, Assessing and Protecting Resources Along tl1e For l.1we ...... De:ulline Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail March . • ...... • . . . . Februal) 20 Stanley C. Bond...... 22 June...... May20 September . . .. • ...... Augusl 20 Dt>cemher .. . • ...... Nol'ember 20 Mission San Juan Bautista: Zooarchaeologica1 Investigations at a California Mission Michelle C. St.Clair-Jerman...... 22 Calendar Subm1:..,1on~ P:unc1a \\cbh [email protected] New Sources for Early l 9d1 Century California History: .-\tl1tlll'ID¥ Rat,;.• 111 p:1gc . • . . • . . . . . • • . . . • • . • . • • • s-o The Russian Naval Arcltives in St. Petersburg If! page ...... • . • ...... • . . • S IOO Glenn Farris...... 22 Full pai:c $1,'i
• 1\t.l~ tha1 nm thn_>e or more consecuti~ Making Pathways Through Traclitions: 1:-stl<':! receive a l'l'io dL<;(;()un!. An Update on the Kashaya Pomo lnteq>reti ve Trail Project Sara L. Gonzalez ...... 22
Onth!!C01cr Archaeology PubLic Day@ cl1e 2007 Annual Meeting Cher./ S11111h-lintner JI nrirl; /11 David Reed Cohen and the /'re,idio ..\n.:haeo/og1 Lib n Photo h.1 .\ndt't.' f'n.'t'bt'QI Liz'.\. Clevenger ...... --
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AdJ((J(l.C.ed AnnualMeetmg Plannmg ~ SCA Business, Tom Origer Tel: (707) 584-8200 Committee News, E-ma1 I: [email protected] ~ Armual Meeting local Arrangemeflts and Liaison Reports Matthew Des Louriers E-mail: [email protected]
Annual~et111g Program Chair Dustin McKenzie Tel: (805) 215-2582 E-mail: [email protected]
ArchaeologyMonth Repr.esefltat1Ye Summary: A bill to de:;signate ccrcain Lauro Leach-Palm Legislative Liaison Report Tel: (530) 756-3941 public land as wilderness and cercain E-mail: [email protected] Stephen Bryne, SCA ri\ crs as wild and scenic rivers in the Bennyhoff.Memorial Award Lcgislaci1·c Liaison Srate of California, to designate Kr1st1no Roper Salmon Restoration Areas. to esrablish Tel: (559) 561-6011 the Sacramento River N
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H .R. 508 prepare a timber han1csc plan (Tl IP) whenever trees arc harvested co -.ell. Tide: Bring the Troop'> 1l omc and Iraq for tree chinning on small parcels So,ereignr~ Rc.,coration !\ct of 2007 designed co reduce fuel co slow down the spread of wildfires. According m Spon!>or: Rcp. Lynn \\'oobcy ( D-6'h) the bill's cexc. che rcgi!.ccrcd Summary: Dcclarc., rhar it i'> l '.S. professional foreseer submining chc policy co: (I) end rhe occu pacion of nocice, upon <>ubmission of chc nor ice. shall provide a confidential Iraq; (2) acccler.m: the training and equipping ofl raq \;military and archaeology lener that include.:-. ,1ll of American (JJitura/ Resource the informarion rcquirt:cl by any ofchc securit') forces; (J) pursue '>ecumy and Assoc11;1t1on J..iai.SJl.lJ Ronald V. May srnbiliry in Iraq through diplomacy; (-l) provisions chat apply to the c'cmpcion E-mail. [email protected] help prcsenc the territorial intcgrit} ar issue. Also as a part ofthi:. provision, rhe dircccor shall \ubmic a Ca/Jforrua Cou~ the of Iraq a'> a nation '>rate; (5) account for Promotion of l::fis1Qry l.1.fllSPfl an) mi5sing U.S. Armed Forces complete copy ofthc confidential archaeological lcrcer and two copics of Shelly Davis-King personnel or lf.S. ciri1.en:-. in Iraq; and Tel: (209) 928-3443 all required archaeological or hi~torical (6) turn over internal security activities E-mo1I: [email protected] site records, co the appropriate.: and military operation~ in Iraq ro the Information Ccnterofchc Cali fornia Information Ceo1er l1a1son elected government of I rnq within six Amy Huberland mon chs. Section 20(> of the bi 11 H iscorical Resource Information E-mail: [email protected] System within 30 days from the dace of authorizes the president ro help rescore Leg1$/at1on l1a1son notice submim1I co thc dirccrnr. Before Iraqi hiscorical and arch<1cologica l sites Stephen Bryne through a grants and ,• ..,,i.,t;1ncc submitting the nocicc co the dirccror, E-mod: [email protected] the registered professional forc-.ter program that includes the Iraqi Nat1ve.Jfmer.kao 1:/erlfage \Iuscum of Antiquitie.... the sh al I send a copy of chc nocicc to Com m.1.s_$1oa__i._i_wSQo Smithsonian lmticucion. che \\°orltl N.icive American:,. as dcfincd in Stephen Horne Tel (541) 923-7778 \ Ionument'> Fund, and chc Oriental Section 895.1ofTicle14 of the California Code.: of Regulation-.. E-mail [email protected] In ... mutc of the l 111\ er\ it\ of Chicago. Empha'>i'> "oulcl be pbced on training Pub/Jeffy lia.1$on Scacus: Referr<.:d co Senate Committee open and hiring Iraqi citi/cn-. co perform the on :\'atural Resourccs and \Yatcr. rcscoratton act1\ 1r1e'>. Fund-. "01tld be OHP L1a1son Michael McGu1rt allocated pnmanh to local Iraqi ,\CR30 Tel (916) 653-8920 go' crnmenr u111cs. Thc program" ould E-mail· [email protected] be allocated $250.000.000 for the .\uthor: Pacey Berg(D-1" ) Society for H1stor1ca/ fiscal y1.:ar 2008. Archaeology l1a1son Tide: Elizabcth Jane Ro:.ewarnc R. Scott Baxter Statu'>: Commirtcc he.iring'> hcld. ~ lemorial Bridge Tel; (209) 223-2790 E-mail: [email protected] Summary: Spccificall). this bill (I) California Legislation Society for Amencan recounts chc life and cimcs of Archaeology l1a1son Session 2007-2008 Elizabeth Jane Rosewarnc, "hose Candace Ehringer AB 1515 home in t\lcndocino Counrv i.., an Tel (626) 304-0102 ext. 220 historic archaeological sic<.: ;ind is E-mail: [email protected] Aurhor: Doug Lat\ lalfa (l~-2 "'1 ) eligible for the , ational lkgi'>ter of State Hlstorrca/ Resources l liscoric Placcs; (2) nor<.:s char rh1~ \ICC Comm1ss1on l1a1son Stephen Horne 'I 'i cle: ·1·im bcr l Lin est Plan is rhe locacion for both the M>uthcrn E \.em pcion Tel. (541) 923-7778 anu norchcrn '>pam of ch<.: E<.:1 RI\ er E-mail [email protected] Briugc: (.) l uc~ignat<.:'> the nor chem Su mm.tr\ :· 1 h1:-. bill e't<.:111.h, for Ii\ e span of thc Eel Ri' er Bridge,.., thc yc.ir-. co Jan11.1r' I. 201 '· rhc -.un-.ct on E li1.abeth Jane Ro'>e\\ arnc \ lcmon,il an c\.cmprmn. from the rcqu1rcmcnr m Bridge: and (41 request'> chc
Legislation Links Websites Contact Your Representatives http:· •www.leginfo.ca.gov Cahlornia State Assembly www.assembly.ca.gov http. thomas.loc.gov California State Senate www.senate.ca.gov U.S. House of Representatives www.house.gov http.l/acra-crm.org U.S. Senate www.senate.gov Contact Your SCA Legislative Liaison Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger www.govemor.ca.gov/statelgovsite/gov_homepage President George W Bush www.wh1tehouse.gov Stephen [email protected] Telephone: 510-622-0152
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Department ofTransportacion \Ve are in chc process of updating the stewardship workshops. When plans for (Calcrans) co determine che cosc of Archaeology- lonth Calendar. If you these workshops finalize, we will appropriace signs, consistent wich che have an evenc or displa) thac you announce the daces and cimes on the signing requiremencs for che scace would like co have on ch<.: SCA web CA SP web site and on the listserv. (If highway syscem, showing this special page, please concacc L aura Leach you want co be on the CASSP listsen, designacion and, upon receiving Palm ([email protected]). send a blank e-mail message co 6 -----~==~=====-======iiii------········.. SCA Hewslett« 41(2) Annual Meeting. We experienced record attendance for our SAA Liaison Report two-parr session titled A Dialog: Considering California Indian Values and Concerns in CR/I.! Policies and Praccices. Candace Ehringer, SAA Liaison In one-hour increments we whizzed through eight separate topics, running rhe gamut from 'Consultation with California he 2007 Society for American Archaeology. held in Indians' ro 'Coroners and Dewrmining Race,' from 'Working April in Austin, TX, was the society's second-bcst with California THPOs' co' arivc American Views on Death T attended meeting, with 3,670 members in and Treatment of Ancestral Remains.' !\lore than rwenty attendance (the 2001 Annual Meeting in ew Orleans holds prescmers-both acive and non- lacivc-shared their the attendance record.) rl 'here was a large variety of cal ks, knowledge, experiences, and truly genuine feelings. The covering all pares of rhe globe. from 8am co almost lOpm on planning commirccc for the session (consisting of Janet the first day. The U ni versity of cw Mexico and Brown Eidsness, Gregg Castro [Salinan], Valentin L opez IAmah University were the final contestants in this year's Ethics Mutsun], l\folany Johnson [Maidul, Gabriel Gorbet [MaiduJ. Bowl. The Brown University ream dealt with the question: and Cassandra Hens her LKaruk l) strove for open and honest "to whom do we return artifacts were looted from a national communication between archaeologisrs and acive museum during a rime of war?" The University of ew Ameri cans, in a safe setting where true listening and .lV!exico ream cackled the question: "should professionals understanding could cake place. A variety of perspectives publish research based on an artifacts collected by were shared. nor all alike, but al l from rhe heart. Emorions avocational archaeologists?" Boch reams did an exeellcnr job ran scrong as people opened up and shared their personal of defending their positions, bur. in the end, the ream from stories and experiences-and we all came to undersrnnd a Bro.,.vn University was declared the winner. llnforcunarely. litclc more about the real effects of archaeology and CRM on California did not take home a prize for best Archaeology California's indigenous people. Look for a summary report Month/Week poster this year. The winners of the on the session in the Annual l\1eeting Proceedings due our in Archaeology Month/\Veck Poster comest were: l '' prize, 2008. Arizona; z nd prize, Wyoming; and 3'd prize, Alaska. Past wi nncrs can be seen at the SAA's websi ce: hrcp:Uwww.saa.org/ Public/arch Posters/poscer\.Vi nnerArch ive 2006.htm I. Proceedings Report This year's Council of Councils Meeting began Thursday morning wirh a wonderful presentation by Duane Peters of Passing the Baton Geo-l'v!arinc in Plano, TX, cnticled "Texas Archaeology: Past As of the next issue. Volume 21. Greg White and the SCA and Prt:st:m." Pc::u::rs began b y add 1c:;:;:; ing :;umc:: uf ti 1c:: cu11c::11c Business Office will no longer be responsible for production issues in Texas archaeology. including che lack of legal of the annual Proceedin~s. Despite what you see on the SCA prorecrion for unmarked burials; rhc lack ofwell-rrained home page (hrrp://www.scahome.org/publications/ young archaeologists; raising the bar on TRHP eligibility: proceedings.html), the Proceedings will henceforth (but concinuing efforts re laced co public outreach, including 5u rel y not forever) be produced by Far vVcstern producing less boring technical documents; and lack of Anthropological Research Group. Sharon Waechter at Far curarion faci lities. We;;stt:rn will conrinue to be the Edicor, with the able and In 2007, most archaeology conducted in the sca re of Texas greatly appreciated help of Don Laylander. Please note that is done ch rough private enterprise, a result of compliance with all submissions should be sent or emailed directly to federa l and scare laws. According to Peters, the move awa) Your submission rnu~t include an electronic version Sharon. from academia and into private enterprise has limited rhe (\\lord or \\'ordPcrfecr), either on a CD or as an email opportunities for up-and-coming archaeologists co gain atrachmcm. All other guidelines for submission to the adequate fi eld experience. llnivcrsicics art: now producing Proceedings remnin rhe same. I\ I As and Ph Os who IHl\'C link knowledge of and experience All senior aurhors and symposia chairs are urged rn submit wirh proper tit: Id techniques. [le suggests chat private firms their papers from the 2007 Annual f\ leetings in San Jose for de,·elop internship programs, which would allow firms co rrain publication in the next volume of the Proceedings. Please ~ind then hire chcse berrcr-cr:iincd individuab. submit text as Word files, graphics (separately) a::, PDF or Tl F Peccrs abo lamented chc continued use of "telephone files, and t:ibles (separately) in Word or Excel. You can find boorh" archaeology (pre\'alent in chc '70s and '80s), which derailed submissions guidelines on the SCA home page at produces a locofarcifacrs bur lircle informacion on past http://wW\\'.Scahome.org/publications/procet:dings.htrnl. Ii fcways. I Ic advocated the continued and expanded use of Sharon Waechter, SCA Proceedings Editor large !; lock exca\'ations, \.\'hich can illuminacc use of a Far Western Anthropological Research Group landscape and provide a much more detailed piccurc of how 2727 Del Rio Place - Suite A people li,·ed. Davis CA 95618 530· 756-3941 Peters is ~1 l so an advocate of in,·olving local communities [email protected] in archaeological 'itudics. I le cited che Freedman's Cerncrer) Project. conducted b~ his firm. as a good example ofrhc benefits ofha,·ing the community invoked. J\lthough tht: SCA H"wsletter 4 1(2) ..------lllliiliiiiliiiiiiiii_.iiiiiii______~ projecr. which invol"cd the rcmo,·al and reburial of a late I 9'h co earl} 2()•h· ccnrun free black ccmcrcn. to allo\\' for the expansion of a roadway:was :u fir:.t at odds" ith the local communir,. vear' of litigation led to a :.erclcmenr tha'c Jllowed for scienti fie -.tud\ of the burials. In the end, Gco-:\iarinc rccei,·ed an award for public outreach. They also produced a lc~\-tcchnical than-usual technical report. which wa:, •lcccssible co the communir\ in'' hich the project rook place.' I 'he ·F recd man's Cemete~ report w:1~ unu-.ual in that it began with a hist0r\ of the comm unit\ moving inro die te ~hnica l dat:1 later. ·. Peters suggests tha L we stri vc m generate reports which would appcal rn a broaderaudienec, not just t0 fc llow archaeologists. Peters rhcn gave an ovcn1iew of some of the more intcresring .. iwi. rhac Kathy Puseman at SAA Meeting Austm. have reccncly been invcsrigarcd in rl exas. including the wreck of the La Belle. The Texas Historical thesc area'> l'he Defense Base Closure and Commi.,sion has completed cxcarnrion of tht: "reek and produced Realignment ,\ct of 1990 exempcs base realignments a beautiful book full of gorgcom color phoros and illusrracions from NE P \ '>t.:rutim. ,\!though the real ignmenr would ticled "From a \\ 'arc~ Gr:H c: The Di-.co,·cn· and Excarncion of la C\Cntll;tll) he '>Ubject ro Section 106 . •\ lirchcll bc.:licn:s Salle'!> Shipwreck. La Bt.:llc.:." La Belle, the riagship of French that ic will bc too lace, the damage" ill ha,·e been done, t:'\plorer Robe re Cl\ clier. Sic.:ur de la Salle. :.ank in :\ larngorda B:l\ and the mil1tan "ill O\\ n the land. Efforts arc currenrl\' (located betwccn Gah C\tOn and Corpu!> Chri:,ri) in J 686. . u11ue1 '' "' Ill ">Hip Ll11:: 111iliLa1 ~ f1u111 rnki11g L11c:: la11u · Archaeologist'> for the Commi.,.,ion decided rhat the besrcourse of ch rough cm1nenr domain. The Colorado Council of Jction, given the dark water in" hich the ship rests. was w build a Profes.,ional Archacologi'>t~ will be enlisting the aid of cofferdam around the" reek and t:ll.Cavare on dr\ land. This was the other i.rncc., · eouncib. '><>the SCA membership ~hould first rime -;uch a large 'hip had been exca,·aced ~1sing a dl")-land expect :1 call ro arms in chc near fururc. cofferdam - and chc lir!>r rime it lrnd ever been attempted in the T he Profc'>'>ional Archacologiscs of 1-.:ansas. in L'S. t\ very expensive undcrrnking, che cxcarncion was completed conjunction wich chc Kansas Sratc Historical Socicrv ha'> with rhe u">e of$ I. 75 mill ion in gm ernmenc fund'>. wirh marching produced a' er) '>lick brochure enritled "Getting funds pro\'ided by privr1ee donors. Over one million arci facts were ch~ Archaeological Green Lighc for Your Projects: A Basic recovered, including a rare. large fragment of che ship's sails. Guide to Complying with Laws Regarding Currently, the ' Lcxas 11 istorical Commission is conduccing Archaeological Sites." The brochure, designed for excavations ac Fort Saint f ,ouis. For more informacion on the Le1 conrrncrors, e ngineer:,, government agencies. and l ~cllc and Fort Saint Louis, and many other ' lexas archaeological individu;ib who :ire pcrhaps dealing with Federal :mes, check o ut the ''Texas Beyond 11 is to I")': The Virtual J use um compliance for rhe first rime, answers such basic ofTexas Cultural I lcricage" web:.ice at qucMions a ... What is the h1w? \\'ho pays for che work? \\'\\ \\.texasbc)ondhi:.to[).nec. E.,rnblished in 2001, the sire is I lcl\\ much will thi-; cost? \\'hat happens if I don't folio" dedicated to educating the public on th<.: archacology and hisrorv the proc<.:ss' I le}\\ long docs the process take? and 11°'' ofTcxas. Conrributions co the \\Cb'iitc ha,·c bc<.:n incorporated i~ro docs the proces'> benefit me? The answers stress the .,e,·eral culcural resource mici~~ltion plans in the scare. imporr:1ncc of dealing" ith rhe:,e issues head on, carh· :\lark \I itchell ,gave the ne:\C prc:,enmcion. on the '>rate of on. and hone-.ch. Thc goal of chc brochure i~ co allc' iate Jrchaeology in Colorado. Colorndo\ unmarked burial law ha<> been chc uncerrainc' and fear man) de' clopers feel" hen modified -.uch char recO\ ered rcmain:, arc arnilable for stud\ for dealing" ich culcural re-;ources. onl) 45 da)., - dcl\\ n from 365 da\ '· \ ba.,e realignment (re~d The Council of \ffiliaced Sociccies held rheir annual "expan-.ion .. ) at Fort C,ir.,on \Pin yon Cam on \Ian ell\ er Sire bm1nc.. -. mccting on Thur!>day e\'cning. Susan Edward-. threatens -;evcral culrnral resourc~-.. inclt1tiin~ the '>tare's largest of the '-.e,·ada \rchacological As:.ociacion i:, retiring a-. and lease documented collccrion of rock arr, the San ca Fe Trail, a chairpcr-.on ofthc council, and ~farccl Kornfield of large number of 1860\ home\Cl:ad-., and late prehisroric Wyoming'' J'> elected to .. uccced her. Susan had archirccrural .,ires. The militar) would like co expand the Pinvon organi1<.:d a C :ouncil of ,\ffiliaced Societies poster Canyon :-. lancuver Sitc from 235,000 acre<; co 653.000 acres. · i~he .'><.:s-.ion for chc 2007 SAA expan~ion would introdut·c Ii\ c lire and curwil public acccs!> ro (conrinued page 181 8 ------··••iiiiiiiiiiii~ SCA Newsletter 41(2) he 41" Annual ~lee::tinp; of the Society for California audience was created co engaging cal ks on che evolving Archaeology \\'JS held at the Doubletree H otel in landscape and geomorphology, ritu:tlized violencc. and che T San Jose o n M arch 22-ZS. These meccings pro,·ed ro complex hiscori cal roots of San Jose by Jack Meyer. Randy be an engaging amalgam of research, public outreach, reporrs \Vibe::rg, and C harl ene Duval. Parcicularl y moving was Connie o n field investigations and position statements on a number Young Yu 's personal ce~timonial of che "Chinese American of copies germane to heritage preser;ation and the Native Experience in San Jo e" which she prescnced a long with co American communiry. \Ve estimacc that ar least 735 people, author Rebecca Allen. including scudencs, arrendcd and parricipated in the academic. professional. and festi' e suice of activities that Continuing a crend in recent years, attendance and formal were planned. By most accounts and rumo rs, these meetings icwolvemenc by Naci,·e Americans in several different ran smoothly and were boch informative and enjoyable. sessions was ar ;111 all rime high.· l'hree differenr symposia Primary responsibility for chis year's success must be given ro dealt with issues of significance to nati\'e peoples, Jennifer Farquhar who served as Local t\rrangemencs Chair. p:micularly C Rl\.J and heritage prese::rvation. First. on Frida~ and Mark I lylkcma who was rhc Program Chair. While many 9 tradition of cro'><>-border interaction~ . The\ contributed co the Sacurday '>)'tnposium entitled "Potential Directions for Conference Planning Committee Undersrnnding Baja California Prehistory" organized by Don 51 Laylander of ASf\ I Affiliates, Inc. and Julia Bendimez 41 Annual Meeting Patterson of I AH . The Bureau of Land Managemenc. and Society for California Archaeology parcicularly Ken Wilson, have significantly contributed to the strengthening of chis international relationship over the years. Program Chair MarkHylkema Local Arrangements C hair Jennifer Farquhar Sile nt Auc ion Silent Action Coordinator Stella D'Oro One of the lighter and more enjoyable events ac rhe meeting chis year was che Silent Auction which was held at Volunteer Coordinator Kelly Long the Children·~ Discovery ~luseum of San Jose on Friday Registration Desk Coordinator Donna Gillette C\ ening. It wa~ amazingly successful. \\'ich over 48,000 square feet of hands on exhibits, dozen'> of rooms, two Tour Coordinator Linda Hylkema Bookroom/Exhibit Coordinator LynnCompas Audio-Visual Coordinator Kerry EIJis Banquet Coordinator Jennifer Farquhar theaters/stages, outdoor patio~. and a dance floor, che venue wa-; the perfect back drop co reconnect with old friend'> and C\ en make a fe" ne\\ one'>! The c;cll-ouc crO\\ d (460+ anendees) enjoyed a varier' of beer and wine selecciom a<, well as delicious fare prepared b) Oa"is's Catering of San Jose. The jazz Birds (featuring SCA member Cher Pecer-;on} delighted che crowd" ith harmonic~ and jazz rhythms from 1930s and 40s. Afterthe live music, Funky O.J. Hannah (a.k.:.i. I lanna Hicok of Albion Environmental. Inc.) offered up mon: modern tunes in rhe" ighc Club" sec up in chc museum's cheater. Thanks co the highest bidder'>, the auction netted around $4,500. Ticket sales brought in nearly $14.000.00 (460 ticket\ @$30.00 each)! Thanks co all" ho helped make chis happen; rhe proceeds will help unden' rice SCA programs chroughouc rhe remainder of che year. A big thank you goes co Stella D'Oro of Albion En\'ironmencal Inc. for organizing chis vear\ Silent Auction evenc. I ler an·rni\ing energy and flair for entertaining in scyle made for a memorable evening. Awards Ba nquet The banqueron Sacurda) nigln ac che Doubletree f)fO\ ided an occa<;ion for rhe .200 plu'> attendees to enjoy a plea.,ant and quite palatable dinner" hile honoring rhe achic' emcnts of -;ome nornble colleagues and friend'>. I nter'>per5ed some\\ here bern cen the ... a lad and che entrec. there was a healthy serving of ~l\\ ard~. Initially. all were reminded ofche nvo award~ c.:onfcrrcd earlier in che Plcnar\ Ses~ion: the Helen C. Smith .\,·oc.:acional Society Achievement Award w~ls given co che San ca Clam Archaeological Society, and the Thomas E King A" ard for E'cellence in Cultural Rc-.mm:e \lanagement ,,-a'> gi\'en co each or tht: 1.2 Information C.cncer\ of the California 111,corical Re~ource~ I nformauon Sy '>tem. I mmed1ace P:i-.t 2007 Awardees: (top) SCA 2006·2007 Treasurer Ted Jones. (bottom) 2007 Annual Meeting Silent Auction Coordinator Stella D'Oro 10 President Shelly Davis King then presented the fark Raymond Harrington Award for Conservation Archaeology co a representative member of The Eleven Auronomous Bands of die Pit River Tribe. They recently won a significant case 2007 Annual Meeting Sponsors challenging the validity of geothermal lease extensions for Calpine without an EIS. Another Past SCA President. Ken Wilson. then announced and presented rhe Cali fornia Indian Annual Meeting Underwriters Albion Environmental. Lnc. Herirage Preservarion Award ro Dwight Dutschke for his Archaeological Conservancy long-sranding service in rhe Office of Historic Preservation. ASM Affiliate~ David Hursr Thomas left a field project o n the case coasr Center for Archaeological Research at Davis (CARD) Coyote & Fox Enterprises and actended the banquet so that he could present the Marcin Daniel and Sannie Osborn A. BaumhoffSpecial Achievement Award co his long-time Discovery Works. Inc. friend and colleague, Hoberr L. Berringer. Thomas engaged Far Western Anthropological Research Group. Inc. rhe audience with stories of field days past and lauded Keith Johnson Becringer's research acumen and his work in the White Mary and Adrian Praetzcllis l\lounrains. Presidcnc Frank Bayham rhen conferred the 2007 Maturango Museum LifcrimeAchievemenr Award on his colleague and mentor at North Coast Resource Management Chico Seate University, Keith L Johnson. lo additio n ro being Past Forward. Inc. a -W+ year member of the SCA, Johnson was one of the co Presidio Trust founders of the anthropology department at C hico and RECON Environmental. Inc. influenced the career and tie Id training of many nascent Robert Hoover archaeologisrs over the years. Scientific Resource Surveys Statistical Research. Inc. Kent Lightfoot then warmed up the crowd of 200 (who by SWCA Environmental ConsulLants this rime were indulging in chocolate dessert) with his The Cotsen institute of Archaeology, UCLA inrroduccion for che keynote speaker, Timothy R. Paukerac. of William Self Associates. Inc. the Universiry of Illinois, l'rbana-Champaign. Paukerat's keynote address, "Talk about Politics and Religion! How Silent A uctio11 Donors Ancient Cahokia 'Civilized' £~1stern orrh America," was Pacific Legacy, Inc. intriguing and provided an empiric 11 SCA Newsletter 4 1(2) Aliiiiiliiiiiliil••••------~=-= 2007 SCAAnnual 2007 SCA Annual Meeting Meeting Volunteers Award Presentations Adrienne Leta Guest Kathleen Crane Each year at the Annual Meeting the Society for California Archaeology Amanda Rankin Kathleen Lindahl presents of awards to individuals who have distinguished themselves Barry Olson. Jr. Katie Glover documenting. researching, or preserving California's unique cultural Beatrice Cox Kelly Long heritage. The 2007 award recipients are listed below. Bryan Much Kerry Ellis Carolyn Harvey Laura Holland Lifetime Achievement Award Clinton Blount Linda Pollock Keirh L. Johnson Corrine Schulga Lindsay Hartman Cristina Gonzalez MaryGerbic Martin A. Baumboff Special Achievement Awa rd David L Cunis Megan Dunning Robert L. Betringer Dawn Jungemann Melanie Beasley Ellen Albertoni Naomi Scher Mar k Raymond Harrington Award for Gabriel Gorbet Natalie Lawson Conservation Archaeology The Eleven Awono111011s Bands of 1he Pir River Tribe Gregg Castro NinaDelu Gregory A. Greene Pat Mikkelsen Thomas F. King Award for Excellence in Heidi Koenig PhilomeneSmith Culhtral Resource Management Jason Davis Ryan Gross lnformauon Centers ofrhe Califomit1 Jodie K. Richards Shirley Drye Historical Resource !nve/lfory Sysrem Jorge Aguilar Soraya Mustain Jose Alvarez Stefanie Bautista California Indian Heritage Preservation Award Joseph Baumann Stephanie King Dwighr Durschke Josh Patterson Susan Scott Helen C. Smith Avocational Society Achievement Awar d Karen Smith Terri Fulton Sa111a Clara Co1111ry Arclweolugical Society Kari S. Sprengeler Wesley Wills J ames A. Bennyhoff MemoriaJ Fund Award Do1111a Gilleffe Annual Meeting Student Paper Award Tsim D. Sc/111eid(lr, U. C. Berkeley Adrian R Wlritake 1: University of Ca/ifomia. Dal'is SCA Native Amer ican Programs Committee California Indian Scholarships Melany Johnson Maid11 (11110/JiliaredJ Joh11 Vale11 -;,.11ela Chai1; San Fernando Band of Mission Indians Donna Yok11111 Vice-Chair. San Fernando Band of Mission !11dians Jim Brown Ill Tribal Ad111inisrra1or & Membe1: Elem Indian Colony/Elem Pomo Trib(• Harrier Rhoades Me111be1: Sherwood Valley Band of ?01110: Chair. Ca/Fire Na1i1·e American Adl'i.\'Ory Board Opposite page, images from the Annual Meeting Public Day. clockwise from top left: Chris and Beth Padon at the CASSP booth; Sannie Osborn holds Student paper award down the Presidio booth; Michelle Jerman helps winner Adrian R. students at the zooarchaeology activity area; a young Whitaker with his participant tries her hand with mano and metate; cerificate at the 2007 Heather Blind points out the characteristics of a cow Annual Meeting banquet. mandible; children participate in the practice dig. 12 She wa'> a'>'>istcd b) a host of volunteers, each working chcir cfforrs in planning chc I liscorical \Yalking1our ofSan ca diligcnth ro process chis year\ record number of registrant~. Clara l lni\'Cr'>iry. \\'hilc the cour was c,·encually canceled. Speaking of' olunteers, Kelh Long exhibited her we'd like expre\'l our appreciacion for their hard'' ork and exceptional organizational skill., orchc.,trating a large group commicmcnr co chc SC.\. of recruit<> for the event (page 1.2). The audio-visual portion of the meeting was expercly managed b) Kerr) Ellis, who did an Finally, we would like co thank the staff of che Prc.,idio cxcraordinary job ensuring chac a ll technological aspeccs of Archaeology Lab :ind The l 1C Berkeley Archaeological che meeting went offwichouc a hitch. Also during che Research Facility for their cfforcs in producing the wildly mc;c;ting, John Ellison and aomi Scher provided support '>ucccssful Public Day evcnc held on Sunday afternoon scccing up and dismantling poscc;r ses~ion displays. A sincere (pictured below; see also page 4-t, chis Newslem:r). chank you also goe:- to Linda I ly lkcma and Rebecca Allen for J -- ..., -"" SCA Newslett er 41(2) .------ Announcements Long-Time SCA Member Ron May Honored Archaeology Sa' c Our I Jeri cage Organi1.ation (SOHO) honored Ron \ la) wich a People News and Announcements In Prcservacion . \ ward on \ h1y 19, 2007 a) a pare of I liscory Presen acion ~ l onch. They conferred the award in chc acional Register NT C Ch~1pc l (former Naval Training Cencer) during an evening ceremony. layor Jerf) Sander~ and che Cit) Council of San T he Fore Gu11arros Project assumed a life ofirs own over Diego furcher honored Ron wich Special Commendacions and the ycar~. a~ hundred'> of students and citizens of all wa lks of a P roclamacion. The award commemorated Ron's 27-years life vi~iccu and consultccl the collections fo r papers, scholarly service as director of archaeology, museum, and educational research and public intercsc. Vo lu nteers conci nue co earalog programs at th <.: 18th century Spanish Forc Guijarros site and the 16,000 phocograph ic images, and conduc t public tours of associaced 19th cencury Am<.:rican whalingscacion, Chinese the 1898-1960 U.S. Army Fore Rosecrans bu ildings, in spice of fishinp; camp, and 20th cenrnry U.S. Army Fore Rosecrans. che facr rhat somcone at che avy surreptitiously wirhdrew the acional Rcgbter papers in 2005. Jn receiving che award, Ron explained how a confluence of hiscorical forces dre" him into the project in 1980. Ac thac cime, he also donated his cimc as vice presidenc ofche Historical Archaeology Reports Available Society for California Archaeology and <,erved wich Gary Breschini and Trudy 1 la\'ersrac in bacclingAsscmbly Bill 952 Th:1d ,\ /.\?Jn 8111.:n.:n in Sacramenro. Ron had ju'c rccurn<.:d from an SC.\ Executive Board meeting in s~m Jo'>C \\ hcrc che Board de\cloped a phm The California Dcparunenc ofTransporration is making to generate public interest in archaeology projects and u:.e a\·ailable ac no co-.t copie\ of ~cn:ral clam reco,·cry reporcs on our lobbyists. ' I erne & I l ou~con, to dt:ll\ er pcrcincnc news major hi'>torical archacolog) projects completed in rhc pa~r copy ro key lcgi.,laror"> in commiccce~ holding hearings on AB decade. t\ rciclc., on all of the~c projccts ha,·e pre,·iou~I~ 95Z. That bill propo~cd crn.,ing the.: "ord'> "archaeology" or appe.irec.J in the !-ii IA .'-..et1 ,/ccrcrand also in most ca.,es in the .. history .. from the California Ell\ iron mental Qualiry Acc. journ:1I /li,wrical. \rc:h:1colog'!. Each volume/sec is bric fl~ \\'ith chat mi~sion in mind, Ron joined force..," ith the San c.Jescribed bclcl\\ Ir you \\011ld like co receive any ofche e Diego I liscorical Socict), E Clampu:. \ 'icu:.. Peninsular publications. plea'>c cmail your reque:.t \\ ich your mailing Chamber of Commerce. San Diq~o Cannonecr..,, Cabrillo address to rwcncy-~e, ·e n years. associated \\'ich :-.pecific houscholus in Oakland, California. t\ wide \'arieC) or groups i~ rcprcscnted. from unskilled SOI 10 recogni1.ctl Hon for organi1.ing and carrying our thc working-cla!>S households co upper-middle-class familics, Fore Guijarros Proj<.:cc at '\; ~1\'a l Basc Point Loma in his spare immigrants from numerou' councries, and nati\ c-born ,,·hite' time, as he" orked full -cime for the.: C:ouncy of San Diego a.., and .\frican t\mcrica1h. The re~ults are presented in :l their \ta ff :irchacologi'>t until retiring in 1998. Through the standard formac ro faciliratc compari-;ons. Encitlecl Block 199(1-,, hc ... upen·i.,ed team ... or\ oluncccr., [()complete :J , I i::chnical lkport \: 11 i\Wric:al , \rclwcu/010. 1-880 c~ [>fC.\\ compuceri/cU cacalo11: of ''Pl1'0\.imately 100.000 artifacts and /kpl:iccmc:nc P micctClOOI ). the.: authorship ,·arie'> b~ '>pccimcm in 400 .1rchi' al ho\.C\. and worked'' irh the '\a,·y ,·olumc. co find mone~ ro con' ere an undcr~round ho.,p1cal morgue into a humidity/tcmper:1rnrc-concrolled collection ~coragc /ln 'hon.: Fn:c11 11 Comprchcmii c Rcporr {\piral hound h;I{(/ area. \\·orkin,e: "eekend'> and C\ ening.... computer cacaloguing cop' .111cl ( :/ ))-~c\ en a-.,cmblage'> a~sociatecl "ith a di' cr.. e of the arcifacc... "a.., complcrcd in ZOO.'i. and Ron\ team then group of hm...,ehold' from ~.1n F ranci-.co. California. turned to publi ... hing a \erie'> of key papcr'> on the 1796 ' ll:chnic1l detaih arc !HC'>Cntcd in a format '>imilar ro the Spani-.h fore art·hiteccure. "h1ch Scch \lallio-.. Ph.D.. (\pre-.-. report. hue clw. 'olumc abo include.., 1ncerpretation">. Dt:partmen t of t\nrh ropolog\. S.in I )icgo Seate l. ni\ cr">ity. 1-.nmlcd ,<.ifo'-80 n.1, \hon: \ 1:ic./11cc C.,cirn1ic: Rccmfir Prr>JCCC\: publi-.hcd a'> Pan .1 of the nc\\ "ian I )1ego Scare Ckca.,ional Rt.:porr on ( :1111,rr11cru111 \ lo111wm1~. Geo:1rc:hac:olo;...""). ;rnc/ \rchaeolog\ P:1per., '\. u mbcr One ("''".SO. \ P.cclu) in 2006. '/ ~-chmc1/ :111cl lnrcrJ1rc:ci1 c ,c.;wdh:., for l focoric:1I . \rch .11.:0/11~' cJir1.:d h\ \l.1r" Pracrtclll'> (100-t). ------··••lliiilll•lliiiiiiila.. SCA Newsletter 41(2) General Freeway Comprehensive Report (CD)----'] 'h rec 795-9385. In addition ro documenting work at the sites, she assembla~es associaccd with emergin.e; middle class Jewish would like ro put rogecher a day-lon,g panel discussion or households and an Irish ho usehold headed by a woman from conference highlighting m:ijor findings. site interpretation, San Francisco, California. Technical demi ls arc pr<::s<::ntcc.l in a and reminiscences of the cxcavarions. format similar to the Cypress report and interpretations arc also provided. Entirled Rcporcon '/(:chnical and Jnccrprccii·c Swdies For l /iscoric Santa Cruz Island is located in Santa Barbara County and Wiyot Tribe Requests located 20 miles (33.9 km) from the mainland. Santa Cruz is California's largest offshore island. Jr is approximacely 24 ''Tuluwat Barbed" Reclassification miles long and up to six miles wide (32 km by 9 km) rorn ling 96 square mile:. (249 kmZ) . f\fany historic buildings dor che As representat ive of the \\'iyor Tribe. I have been consulting\\ ith local archacologisrs on the designation of specific diagnostic projectile points known as "Gunther Barbed" and "Gunther Variants." The term "Gunther" WiyotTribe derives from white settler Roberc Guncher who purchased che land known as "Indian Island" in 1860: later Ruotatlon oft.be archaeological investigation by L.L. Loud ofrhe la rge WIYOT TJUBAL COUllCU. shell mound and vi llage ofTuluwat at the north end of che island yielded che distinctive projectile point series RESOLUTIOlf HO: 06·19 known as "Gunther." DATll APPROVED: Oct obu 23. 2006 The island was recenrly renamed Indian Is land b) the SUBJECT: Cb&Ds• of o.n>haeoloclcal c.lual.llcattou or -0....t.ber BuMd" to C ity of Eureka: Tuluwat (CA-H Uf\I-67) is designated as a "TUlawatllubed " National H isroric Landmark, and che property is now Wbereu: Th• W1yot Tnbc, 15 d (cdcr-..Uy recognu.cd lndtan Tnbc: CURJblc for aU ngh•~ owned by chc WiyocTribe. 'JUluwat is signific,1 nt both for 1Uld pnvtl<'jtCb alf<>Tdcd to rccugnl7..ed Tribc:ft. Wbere u: The MC-he-nJogicnl classafieaoon and typoloto• known a11 '"Gunther Ro.rbed'" Attached is Resolutio n::: 06-19 o f r11e \Viyoc Tribal ct("n\ cs from lhc d1sco\•cn• uf J L'utam typr ,,, proJttu.lc pomt on what wa.s Lhe.n known Counc il, appron:d October 23. 2006. Please feel free co a.:o "Gunther lalll.lld'" Wlt.h l.oud'a JQ 11 cxcu,·ottona at Tu1uwat ICA HUM..07) S:•n<.c thlC' 1s.Jond 1s na longtt owned ur named tn dcff".n:n~ to Rohfon Oum her. lhc pro1ec11lr forn ard this requesc ro <1pprnpriate agencies and pnmf ~""°" sht1uld reflect n more cultural!\ scms1uvc lCrmtnology Therefore:. local 1Ul;htteologia1-" 1trr !!UR,gcsung n-ruu:DJ.ng "'Ounlh~r Barbnr a-c -rtJluwH.1 Barbfi!"' amd. inscicucions. ~ly contact information is listed below. Wb.e n:u : The rcnanun't WllJ udvunrc lhc Vls•b1lny and aCC\lracy of Nortll C-0-ds\ Helene Rouvier areh~4~0lo~. 1U1d t\.l~ rc0e<:t5 poMtlVC ~~nKUltUUOO wtlh tnbaJ tntere"IA The chnng.r wiU Rhm prnrootc the "1gn1ficancr or Tu1uwnt o n a nat1onnl rti.nd mtrrnauonaJ) acole Cultural Director/THPO Wiyot Tribe JfOW Tl:IE:R.ltFOU BB IT RESOLVED that the l'nbal Councd hcrcb\ offers u :-.. auppor1 and lend~ HS rui.m-... t l"' th<" r-cruwung of pr'OJcaa.fr: poml!\ kn o~ u~ '"Ountht'r Bnrbc:d'" to Lhc more accurati: '"'T'uluwat Sattw-tr BE tT 1'VR1'1D?R RESOLVED that th 1~ rra.oh11,Qn !lhfill rc:mwn in c:Ottt unuJ Request for Information: r-c1tetnc.!rd tw a.cuon of thC' Tnbal <.:uuncal Coyote Hills Regional Park f. R T ! F I L I\ T ·1-0-1' Thls t" to l.c:nuv thJt Rc:soiuuon • Oft l\f '"-•t- ..µproH·d u1" rcguhu-ly Khedulcd mrx-IJJlfit of thC' TablC' Bluff RrKerv 15 SCA Hewslettel' 41(2) .Miiiiiiillll------'- landscape of Santa Cruz and m irror mies of ics inhabicants. New Technical Brief on Archeological Adobe ranch houses, barns, blacksmith and saddle shops, wineries, and a chapel al l acccsc co che many uses ofSanca Site Stewardship Programs Cruz in che 1800s and 1900s. Christi Ranch, where the class will be camping, is a cluster of old ranch build ings, chc oldesc "Developing and lmplcmcncing Archeological Site of which was built somccime in che 1850s. Stewardship Programs," by Sophia Kelly. is now on li ne as Technical Brief#22 (htcp://www.cr.nps.gov/archeologv/pubs/ Dara acquired from che field trip co San ca Cruz Island wi ll tech B r/cch22.h cm). Archeological site stewardship programs be processed and analyzed. T he fifth and lase clay of chc shore can be a valuable com poncn r of proceccion plans for course w ill present image processing and display techniques archeological resources on borh public and p rivace lands. This using che San ca Cruz lslantl data, as well as data from ocher technical brief explores chc necessary componencs of archaeological sites around the world. Several gucsc speaker successful developmenc and implemcncacion of an are p lanned. archcological sice ~ tewardship program. J If you would like more informacion, or a hard copy of che UCSB Summer GPR Shore Course brochure, p lease send an e Meetings mail co Chumash Wind Caves Need Assistance J\fark Basgall and Tom /\/ills. Co-Chairs The Coalition co Save H usahkiw-Ch umash Wind Caves is In che cradicion of the Kelso Conference on Archaeolo~· working co preserve ch is ancien c sacred area located in che ofche Cali fornia Dcsercs, we arc ina uguracinga new meeting Los Padres acional Forcsr. T he Husahkiw-Chumash Wind that examines chc nacurc of past human acti\'icics wichin chc Caves include several mu lei-pigmented cave painrings, I nyo-f\lono region and Eastern Sierca - chc Keeler winter and summer solscice rocks, a nd much more. This area Conference. The idea is co esrnblish an informal forum for has been under rhe bombardmenr of che Winchester Canyon discussing new data, emerging ideas, and persistent concerns Gun C lub, which we are suggcscing gee relocacecl co a non relating co environments and people in chis imporcanc pare of' culcurall Y scnsirivc sire, and cle 16 ~---..;,,_------lliii-liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiia.. SCA HewsleU er 41(2) is abouc IS minuccs away from the campground. There will of peer re\'iewers (in the case of research papers) and ar rhc be a social ac che campground afcer camp is sec. discretion of che editorial board for non-research contributions. ~ l anuscripts not accepted by J FAA'' ill be Saturday, August 4th 9:00 AM~:OO PM Data-sharing Presentations returned co rhe auchor., "ho may chen submit them else" here for publication. Presentacions will be held ac the Ci\ITRANS District 09 Office in Bishop (500 South J\ lain Street, across from Jack-ln E lectronic submi:,.,ion is srrongly preferred. Send) our Thc-Box ar south end ofwwn). Plan to travel from paper, including any phoros, rabies, and oche r supporting campground ro Bishop around 8:00 am. Presentations may graphics, along with a eO\'er lcrrer including the names and include papers, slideshows, Powerpoint, posters, ecc. Audio :iffiliations of all contributors as well as full conrncr vi-.ual equipment will be prm ided or bring your own. \\'e will information for rhc corrc<>ponding author, ro jfoa@)\\ eccw:1ccr return to Big Springs Campground ar-1:00 pm. scienrific.com. \\'e ''ill ackno'' ledge receipt wirhin one Sunday, August 5th business da\. Half-day Field Trip Detailed guidelines for authors are available on the \\'e \\ill plan a field excur-.ion to one or more significant Journal website at'''' \1.swect\\ arer-scienrilic.com. :.ice~ in rhe area on Sunday morning for those who are interested (9:00 am to noon). after'' hich we ·11 break camp and hc•td for home. Please ore: Due co facilicy size, field trip mrendance will be limited to -10 parricipants, so please Digital laser imaging technology is nor only vcr) cool, RS\ 'P early- no later than Jul) 30rh - co Tom .Mills 760- bur iris also much fa~ter and more accurate than hand dra\\'ing 872-2-12-1, or [email protected]. T his will ensure rhar rhc for :uchirecrural fcarure'> found at archaeological site:.. This presenrnrion schedule and program can be assembled in rime face is made Ob\ iou' in \/c.~:.J \ crde: A CyArk ca~c Swcl~' the for rhe August 3rd kickoff. Fir~t Come. Fir'>t Se1Ted!!! lacc-..t ,·ideo feature on our nonprofit screaming-media \\cb sice, The Archaeology Channel LI nderwricing (h ttp:ljwww.archaeologychannel.org/ Pase President Shell) Davis-King's energy and dedicarion sponsor.shcml) programs. Only wirh your help can we amaze me. Shelly has volunteered rn help rhe Society gain some continue and enhance our nonprofir public-educarion concrol over rhe its conse rvation easemenrs, an issue that has gained and visicor-supponed programming. We also welcome a greater sense of urgency because of recent changes in IRS new conrenr parmers as we reach out to the world reporting requirements. Shelly is also completing the latest communiry. revision of the Executive Board Manual. The Manual is che single mosr imporranc guide for running our Sociery and needs regular Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA revision as the Sociery responds to external changes. President and Executive Director Archaeological Legacy Institute CAAMP (Committee for Advanced Annual Meeting Planning), htto llwww arcbaeo/ogvchannel. org chaired by· fom Origer, has been working diligently on ourycar SAA li11ison Report plans for our Annual Meeting evenrs. The 2008 Burbank Meering!; contract has been signed but the 2009 Modcsco and 2010 Riverside {cont'd from p11ge 8} conrracts are still being negotiated. Our team for the 2008 Burbank Annual Meeting assembled ar San Jose and absorbed the wealth of meeting. ' inc scares participated by presenring posrers advice and wisdom from chis year's team (Jennifer Farquhar and abour rheir sociecy's acrivities, programs, and evencs. Mark Hylkema). Dustin McKenzie, SAl C, has volunreered for the Through rhe posters, I learned that many of the Program Chair posicion. Marr Deslauriers. CSU Norrhridge, has sociecies offer field schools, public oucreach programs, taken on rhe challenge of Local Arrangements. I am hoping chat rhis and avocational craining. The posters were very well will be the year when a comprehensive manual for advanced received and a biannual Council of Affi liated Societies meering planning and for running rhc annual meetings will become poscer session was proposed. a reality; l will be working with Dustin, Ma cc. Jennifer. Mark. Tom Origer. and Shelly Davis-King to get chis long-needed job done. \Nandering rhe book room, 1 learned of che Florida Public Archaeology ecwork The Sociery is "owned" by its members. It runs ch rough the (www.flpubli carchaeologv.org), a relatively new enciry combined efforcs of its many dedicated volunreers. Volunteers give esrabli shed in 2004 by legislation, as part of the freely of chcir rime as members of che Executive Board. as members Florida Hiscorical Resources Acc. Administered by rhc of cask forces. as liaisons co other organizarions, as editors and office Universiry ofWcsr Florida. in conjunction wich the administrators, as workers at the Annual Meeting, as commiteee Florida Deparrmenr of Scace, Division of Historical chairs and members, and in many orher ways. Right now there arc Resources. rhe necwork is designed ro cond ucr public vacancies in certain committee chair and liaison positions. Also. outreach. provide assistance ro local governments, and several committee chairs have indicated an inceresc in scepping; supporr rhe Florida Division of Hiscorical Resources. down after several years of service co the Society. So there is no The erwork is composed of eighr regional centers, shorcage of opportunities to step up and serve the SCA. If you are :;caffed by professional archaeologists hired to promore interested, check our rhe commircee, liaison, and task force public involvemenr, rhrough education and organizarion chart on the SCA Committees and Liaisons page of our parriciparion, in proteccingand preserving Florida's website for descriprions of the vacancies. Call me di reedy if you are cultural resources. interested. ext year's meeting will be in Vancouver, British I have only just scarred to learn the ropes but even in this shore Columbia. The 2009 meeting wi ll rake place in while I have seen the efforts of a number of individuals and Aclanca, 20 I 0 wil l be in St. L ouis, and Sacra men co has organizacions. The Socie ty owes irs appreciation co outgoing Board been ser co host the 2011 meeting. members Shelly D:ivis-King, Andy York, and Ted Jones, whose efforcs have helped co grow the organization and its programs, co From the President continue placing us on a sound financial footing. and co internationalize the SCA's scope. Mark Allen, Jennifer Perry, and {cont'd from p11ge 3} Leigh Jordan arc stepping in as new Board members. At rhe top of my appreciation list is Greg White who, among ocher things, runs generated enthusiasm for developing draft legislation; the Business Office, edits the I ewslecccr, is the insriwcional Bev is seeking individuals informed in rhe ways of memory and trainer for novice Board members. and helps make the writing legislation chat might assist in a working group. Annual Meetings a success. There also have been changes in Th()Se who wish to assisr in a working group are invited committee chair and liai-;on assignments. Alrhough this is not a co conracr Bev ar 18 -;.;.. ______llliiiiiiiiiiiiiili.,,. SCA Newsletter 41(2) It bears repeating that Archaeology Month has moved co no longer geographicall y li mited to Alta California. So one October to better tit with the scholastic year and co better focus of our examination of rhc Strategic Plan is ro think meer rhe needs of teachers. This change has meant that two abom rhc SCA's .Mission Srarement-and perhaps co craft a posters are in production at the same rime. The poster for this rc,·ised version for consideration by rhe membership. Bue we year will be made available free of charge at rhe dara sharing will also be re-thinking Board roles, rhe mix of Committees meerings and from rhe Business Office for rhc price of and Liaisons. SCA Programs, and the scope. operation, posrage. The poster for next year will be unveiled at the funding, 19 SCA N ewsletter 41(2) Aiiiiiiiiiil•------failed co see chat coming. Ironicall y, while working for SB 18 is an imporrant piece of lcgislacion. le is cricical for Calrrans on che realig nment of rhe El Camino Real my own it co be implemented accuracely. archaeological investigations at the third location of that mission resulted in deferringconsrrucrion impacts to its Sincerely yours, remnants and rhe neoph yte cemetery con raining an historic Courtney Ann Coyle, Attorney at Law escimare of 6,000 acive American graves. Consequentl y, SCA member, La Jolla, CA char place is currenrly preserved instead of having been desrroyed, a nd if anyone knows rhe legacy of che mission and its relarionship co che local native people, I do. Nonetheless. "Blazing Blue Badges" (to misquote rl1is episode of California's culrural legacy has differenc meanings ro differenc people, and is acruall y an imporrant Captain Marlinspike from Tin Tin) , component of whac we do as archaeologiscs ( preservarion and Cabrillo Students at the SCA Annual recordacion). As memorials, places like fission Sama C lara or if you will, places like Manzanar or even Auschwicz, have a Conference, March 22-25, 2007 purpose and co remove or censor images from those places The -W'" Annual Meeting of the Society for California does a great disservice co chose people affected by chem. Archaeology in was the largest I have ever seen in my -W Well, chat's all for now. Remember co he kind co my years of anendance, wirh well over 250 presencers and almosc successor, Dustin McKenzie who will chair next year's 800 people attending over the three days. The SCA meeting. membership has now grown to over 1,300 wich student membersh ips making up 27 percent of the total. Mark Hylkema 2007 Annual Meeting Program Chair Students from t he Cabrill o College Archaeological Technology Program (CCKl'P) have been attending the Annual Meering for over 15 years wirh chcir clipboards and SB 18 Not Just for notebooks in full display. The srudencs have puc in many Federally-Recognized Tribes volunreer hours a~ a way of parcicipating in the conference. f\.lany of the SCA members have been very kind co them in As often happens when a bill is promulgated, some folks their need co meet and inrerview ac lease five archaeologiscs go our and cry co "educace" groups on what che bill means. Ic during the conference and seek our advice from chose more has come to my attention thac ac lease one SCA member is senio r to t hem. making presentations co professional and agency entities regarding SB 18, the sacred places and planning bill. Cabrillo College was well represented in 2007 by rwenry five currcnc Archaeological Technology Program srudencs The facr chat such presenracions arc occurring is nor a and clucc facu lty members. Charr Simpson Smich, Sara Ginn problem in irself; however, chc problem is rhar incorrect and myself. Al l of the Cabrillo A.T. P. students are current information on imporrant aspects ofrhe bill appears robe SCA members. 'Ten of che srudencs were ass is red wirh their being disseminated which doesn't help anyone. coses by the Cabrillo College Student Senate. ine ofCharr's students prcscnced posters about cheir Fall 2006 Special SB 18, by irs plain terms, deals nocjustwich federa ll y Studies research in a poster sessio n organized by Charr which recognized California tribes, bur also wirh non federally was well ;mended and resulted in cxecllcnr feedback for the recognized California tribes as long as those entities o r students. persons arc included in chc Native American He ricage Commission's contact lisr. All che srudenrs accended presentations. che Business meeting, rhc reception, the lccrure afrer the banquet, took Ha,·ing represented a bill sponsor, and having been careful notes, anti were expected to rum in their wricrcn work intimately invoh·ed in the negotiations on rhe bill, 1 can tell pose-conference. Swdents were able co choose amongst rhc you char rhis was a key aspect of the bill. In pare, given che sad many sessions based on their inrercscs. 1-lowever, Sunday hisrory ofrribes and creaties in California. recounted in the morning's first session, which dcalc with obtaining jobs. was recent Cali fornia Research Bureau Publication "Early required as was a second session on how to move on inro California Laws and Policies Re lated ro California Indians," ir furchcr educational choices or gee inrn graduarc school. W 20 ------••liiiiiiiiiiiiiil.. SCA Newsleffff 41(2) current -.mdencs; but surprising!). chc blue badges became -t. Gave chem che opporcuniry co learn how to critique paper -.oughc afccr '>emus indicator:. b) former scudenrs. \\'e handed and poscer presenrncions: ouc ahouc SS co pasc scudcnc;., "ho rcli..,hed che idea of i<.kncif) ing chemseh·es as Cabrillo College ATP Alumni. S. Helped them co network'' ich archacologisc<, and \\'ich ZS currenr and 55 Alumni. blue badge wearers ended up especially co necwork wich pasc Cabrillo Alumni" ho arc comprising almost ten perccnc of a// chc conference working in che field or going on in academia [or both], participants. and; The swdencs mec wich us ch<.: end of the conference for a 6. Provided a sense of how highly che Cabrillo Program is feed hack session which was vcr) positi\ c. i\11 the srndenrs cvaluaced "ichin California Archaeology anti whac chac can felt rhe conference was useful to chem in a number of way'>: mean ro cheir furn re ernploymcnr or cducacion. .\II of che-.e po-.ich c-. far ouc \\ eighed rhc cime, enc.;ri.," I. (;a,c cht:m t:xperit:nce "Hh a profcv.. ional meecing. and cosr co rhe faculcy ofbrin~ing !>tlldencs co chi'> conference. meeting -.essions. po:.cer ~es-.iom. ccc.: , and we ccrcainl) plan co acrcnd "ich our srudcnt'> aS?;ain nC\.t \llo" ed them co hear abouc che '' idc range of way~ of )C 2007 Pecos Conference Website http://www.swanet.org/2007 _ pecos_conference/index.html SAA Archaeology Month Poster Contest Winners http ://saa.org/pu b Ii c/resou rces/Arch Mon th forp u bl i c. h1111 l Domain of the Caveman; Oregon Caves National Monument http ://www.cr.nps.gov/history/onlinc_books/orca/hrs/index.htm Route 66 Corridor National Historic Context Study http://\nrn.cr.nps.gov/rt66/HislSig/ComplctcContext.pdf Environment of Mesa Verde, Colorado, Wetherill Mesa Studies http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/archeology/7b/index.htm Secret of the Big Trees: Yosemite, Sequoia and General Grant National Parks http://\\ ww.c r. n ps.gov/h is to ry/ on Ii ne_books/h un ti ngton/i ndex. htm NPS Archeological Peer Review for Public Archeology Projects and Programs http://\\ ,,,,_cr. nps . go\/archeolog~/pubs/tcchBr/tch 21.htm Stockton: Discovering the City Beneath Your Feet o+ h ttp://W\\" .stocktongo,. com/Disco\'erSt ockton/ Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park (1946) INTih.(;ST http://www.er.nps.gov/h is tor~/ on Ii ne_ boo ks/~e ki/c rystal_ cave\indc:-... h tm Spider Bites: The Most Common Culprit hu p ://dermatology. cdl 1b .o rg/00J' ol ~ n urn .Uccn1crfold/ph idi ppus. ht mI 21 SCA Newsletter 41(2) ..------~ including swordfish, striped marlin, albacore. yellowfin rnna. blucfin runa, blue ~ hark and shortfin mako in the archaeological record. is estimated tO A.O. 500-600. The energetic cost of comol construction (500 person-days of highly skilled labor) poincs to the sociopolitica\ complexity of the Chumash in chat only highly ranked e lites could afford tO own and manage such a significant and costly piece of equipment. Lightfoot, Kent G. 2005 Indians. Missionaries, and Merchancs: The Lc~acrof New Publications Colonial Encouncers on the California Frontiers. University of California Press, Berkeley. Denise]affke ln his award winning book, Lightfoot conducts a cross-culcural comparison of central and southern Cali fornia coast hunter and gatherer communities during the early 19'h century co This series offers an annotated bibliography of recently assess the different responses ro missionary and mercantile published and some unpublished literature pertinenc tO colonial systems. The Franciscan missions and Colony Ross currenr debates and methods in Californian archaeology. If represent two very differcm systems in which some coastal you have any news or ideas abouc how this section can berter indigenous peoplt: were directly incegrated into the colonial fie the needs of its audience feel free to e-mail the author: infrastructure for economic gain. Research and analysis of [email protected]. Please limit contributions ro chose that ethnohisrory, ethnography, native texts, and archaeological can be easily accessed by all members of the SCA and have findings provide che background co undersrand complex appeared within the last five years. relationships and native responses ro colonial regimes. Seven dimensions of colonial encounters are examined in this comparison and include enculruration programs, native Arnold. Jeanne E. relocation programs, social mobilicy. labor practices, inter 2007 Credit Where Credit is Due: The Hiscory of the echnic unions, demographic parameters and chronology of Chumash Oceangoing Plank Canoe. American colonial encounters. These facrors produced d ivergent Antiquity 72(2): 196-209. outcomes for India n survivors in rhe Hispanic and Russian The Chumash plank canoe (comol) of southern Cali fornia has frontiers. been a source of much discussion in recenc years. Questions regarding the technological origins and dace of regular Lightfoot's goal of the comparative analysis was nor only co manufacture and use have been the principle clements of consider the social and economic relationships between native peoples and colonists but, more importantly, co crack debate. In this article, Arnold presents 1) archaeological C\'idence of canoe making and maincenance; 2) the current the consequences of European colonization following the temporal estimate for the origin of the Chumash plank canoe; transfer of missions and closure of Colony Ross. These 3) the development of the watercraft as a "Complex circumstances. along with late 19'" and early 20'" cenrury · Jechnological System;" and 4) impacts of the romol on ethnographic research, conrribuced co the development of Chumash sociopolitical evolution. anthropological constructs of "authenticity" which. in turn, innuenced how federal Indian agents would later classify Although several sets of cools and materials were used in the descendant Indian communities. In the early 1900s, some construction of the comol watercraft, redwood (non-local prominent anthropologists contended that the majoriry of material) and asphaltum, (insoluble bonding agcnc used as coastal California native groups had become largely extincc. caulk) arc provided as principal archaeological signarures. Today, many of these groups remain "unacknowledged'' by The dace of origin for the Chumash plank canoe, based on the the federal government and lack access to federal programs, initial regular appearance of large, aggressive fish species funding, and land allocacion. Society for California Archaeology Annual Meetings, 2008-2010 April 17- 20, 2008: Hilton Burbank Airport and Convention Center, Burbank. March 12- 15, 2009: Modesto (tentative). March 17-20, 2010: Riverside {tentative). Watch www.SCAHome.org for details. .=....;= '----';...;-..______..._ SCA N ewsletteT 41(2) Documenting Colonial California • Methodologies for Documenting Colo11ia/ California: Case Studies from El Presidio de San Francisco. • The Tamal-Hf1ye Archaeological Project: Cross-Cultural E11cou11ters i11 Sixtee11th-Ce11tury Northern California. • Assessing a11d Protecting Resources Along the J uan Bautista de A11za National Historic Trail. • Mission San Juan Bautista: Zooarcltaeological Jn vestiga1io11s at a California Mission. • New Sources for Early J9'h Century California History: The Russian Naval Archives in St. Petersburg. • Making Pathways Through Traditions: An Update on the Kashaya Pomo Jnterpretive Trail Project. • Archaeology Public Day @the 2007 Annual Meeting. Above (see article. Page 42): Volunteers Darren Modzelewski, Emily Darko, and Susan Penacho (from /eh to right} assist with surface collect1on along the North Wall of the Fon Ross stockade during the summer of 2006. Photographer. Frank Zeccola. SCA Newsletter 41( 2) ..-iiiiiiiiiiiliillii••------ Methods for Documenting Colonial second warehou ~e. ,\fter years of rehabilicacion and calk of relocation, there was another major reconsrruction efforr California: Case Studies from around 1815. •rhis rebuilding ""as undertaken in response co major earthquakes, the R11:.:.ian presence 60 miles norch ac El Presidio de San Francisco Fore Ro-.-,, and chc burgeoning populauon \desire for bectcr li\'ing condinon~. Li/ S. Clet·engcr /iric Rrandan Blind During chc lexican era the P residio garrison wa~ moved 8annic Kcncon Osborn north, and although a small dccachmcnr of arrillerymcn \\ere l'rc:rnlio Archaeology Lab left co man rhe pose, the P residio was effecci\'ely abandoned Pn.:.'>idio 'Ii-use and parriall~ ruined" hen chc C.S. Arm) arri,·ed in 1846. For email: :1rchaeology@prc<>idiocn1:.t. go1 a rime, the: Army reused chc adobe Mruccurcs of El Prc-.id10, phone: (-115) 561-5055 until major expansion:, of the pose occurred during the Ci\'il \ Var, Ind ian \Var:;, and Spanish American \\'ar. The r<.:mnanr~ I Presidio de San Franci~co is the corner, cone of rhc original Spani'th forrificarion "ere graduall) renw,·ed archaeological sitc in the largest urban n,1cional park or cm <.:red o,·cr and forgorcen as rhe l .S. i\rmy expanued che E in che count'). the Golden G:1e<.: :\'acional Recreation Presidio. The only excepcion 1s the Pre"dio Officer.,· Club. \rea. Originally El Pre~ic.lio wa:. a remote milit The mcrhods U'>cd in these project'> <,pan from rradicional archaeological cxca,·acion w mort: a\'anc-garde cechniques c;uch a-. laser '>C Excavation hir 1110-.r ofrhe fifteen ye:ir., -.ince the ~icc of El l'res1uio " ·a-. rcdt'ic:overcd. e\ca' :ttion h,1, been rhe main mechod of ------········· SCA News.letter 4 1(2) recording the archaeological sire. Numerous excavation large midden deposit outside ofche north quadrangle wal l is projects have been u ndenaken by the Presidio Trust (Figure currenrl y being conducred by Sarah Kansa (Alexandria 1), 1 acional Park Service, U.S. Army, and private and Archive l nscirure). academic parrners, including Barbara Voss (Stanford University) and Rob Edwards and Charr Simpson-Smith The most concenrraced fauna! assemblages have come (Cabrillo College)- bur only two percent of the overall site from middens, although smaller samples of materials have has been excavated to date. The Presidio's chapel, Officers' been recovered from room floors, hearths, and arcifacr scatters Club adobe, and apartments and middens in the eastern wing across the sire. Analyses of the recovered assemblages have have been most extensively documenred. Artifacts and provided a rich body of data for understanding dicrnry fcarures recovered through excavation arc plcnriful, practices. Cattle provided the majority of meat eaten (Figure numbering in the hundreds of thousands. These assemblages 3 ). Bones of domesticarcd fowl. cspeciallv chicken. are and our exc 25 SCA Ne w sle tter 4 1(2) ...------~ I r ~. I ,-~ ' r· J I. .· ( ~ ) .gi c:O> ;I) 15 cu ::ier ~ ~' " Q) ....~ ....0 ~ Cl) 2. ~ ~ !!!e. 1!l .!;; ·"'cu ~ ~ § ~c: cu ~ .!!? 26 ~------lllililllil••lllllliiiiiillllllliliiiiiimi.. SCA Hewsle tl<>r 4 1(2) of arcifaccs. i\s a result, Paul Goldberg (Boscon U ni vcrsicy) rcco,·cred block ~ample, from che floor and '>ubstrata and created chin ~ecrion<; our of che resin-impregnaced block. J\ licro:.copic :in:ily'>i'> of chi'> floor '>ection :.upporced our visual assessment that there "ere no artifact!> beneath chc floor confounding rhe hisroric incerprerarion char this was the sire of SC\ era! rccon-.rrucrion .... E rica Simmon-. (Sr.rnford l 1ni' er'>ity) conducrcd a comparative srud)' of adobe frorn the Officer:.' Club and a lacer \lcxican-era :.ice ar rhe J> rc:.idio rhac had been burned in a tire. r lcr work used macro-.copic gcoarchaeological technique-. in combination " irh micromorphology (Figure 5) to demonstrate significant differcnccs in rhc composition and texture of adobe of the t'' o site'>. Figure 3: Cheryl Smith-Lintner. Dendrochronology De nd rochronolog) has been used ro he lp refine ou r u nde rscand in g o f the chronology o f construcci on ac E l Presidio. Adobe b uil d ings arc d i fti cult w dare directly. b ur o ne of cht: cen tral q uesrions in our research ac che adobe Offi cers' C lu b i'> the vintage of the b ui lding. Since the results of excavation " ere inconclusive as co whether che extant building is the original 1776 adobe, or a lacer 1792 or 18 15 reconsrrut·cion, "c hoped w u:.e dendrochrono logy as anocher mc:in<> of appro:iching chi'> quc'>tion. S:implc~ "ere ca ken from a number of" ood beam'> in che adobe, from both Spanish- and l 1.S. . \ rm) -era component'> of the archiceccure. ~I ick \\'orthingcon Neutron Activation Analysis of Earthenwares Earthen arcifacc-; from borh \I ission San Francisco de Asfs (Oolorc'>) ;:ind El P rc.,idio dt: San Francio;co (Figure 7) \\'Cre :.ubjecced rn in,rrumencal neutron ;1ctivacion analysis b~ Santa Clara L' ni' cr-;it) in parcner'>hip with the Smithsonian I nstirution. T he purpose of chi\ -,cudy \\'as co characterize rhe pa!>te of earchcn\\ ;trc-.. including g lued earthcn\\'arcs and majolica<>, ;rnd abo characteri1e the chemic:il measurement:. of colonial roof tile'> .and brick'>. \ naly'>i'> of fragments of arch1rccrural c:irrhenware-. and fragments of plain ceramics showed s1milamic'> 111 their geochemical signatures bcrn cen the rn o locacion-.. This can be indic;trive of eicher cradc or Jack of \'an:ince 111 rhc ,gcolog' of the region from which mareria1'. wen.: excracced for production. Lead-gla,r,ed Figure 5 (right). Adobe Ihm-section from the Presidio Officers' Club. SCA N e w sletter 4 1(2) ...------ ceramics appear w ha,·e originated in both .i\lcxico and California based on cheirchemic::il groups. \\'bile the fe'>' pieces of majolica thar were sampled all appear co derive from Puebla, .i\lexico. The researchers concluded that urilirarian pone~ wa:-. made on-site, other vessels were supplied to ncarb) pueblos and missions, and much ofrhc lead-glazed pottery was imported from a single producrion center in J\lexieo. Additional pieces of El Presidio pottery are being analyzed in rhin-secrion using a petrographic microscope by Sarah Ginn ( lTC Sanra Cruz) who is also looking at rhci r con->trucrion techniques. Remote Sensing, GPR, and Magnetometry Several efforts have been made ro employ remote sensing techniques at the Presidio (URS Corp., San Francisco State U ni versity, I C Berkeley). Ground penetrating radar, Figure 6: A viga cross-section from the Presidio Officers' Club. soil resistivity. and magnctometry surveys ha' e all been undcrwken over the years for the ca~tcrn and western room blocks. Correlating the planar resulrs of magneromccry with thc vertical sli ces of ground penetrating radar can somerimcs enable the development of three dimcn->ional model~ of buried sire features illusrraring borh rhe fearurc's location and deprh. Howe\'er. using rhcsc high I~ sen::.iti\·e cools in an urban t:m·ironme::nt is challenging. \ 'ehicular traffic and buried uriliries can often skC\\ rhe resulrs orcreare such strong readings ch at other more subtle fcarures ofrhe arch aeological site arc overpowered. H owe\ er, strong '>ignals suc.:h as those from scone foundations and !>ubsrnncial middens do rt:ad in rhe resulting visualizations and havc bccn o;uccessfully used co establish wall alignmcnts. predict rhc location of refuse dt:posits. and rnrger excavations in co both C\ pes of fearun:: (Figure 8). Figure 7: A variety of earthenwares from El Presidio. Harris Matrix Analysis The I larris l\laui:-., a cool for schematically rcprcsenring 200 archaeological stratigraphy, was developed by British ·eo •m:haeologist Edw.1rd Harris and has been used co document •go '>itc-i around the \\Orld. Ar El Presidio, rhe Harris)\ latrix has '40 proven a useful tool for understanding rhe complex stratigraphic rclatwn1>hip1> of multiple phases of construction. occupation. and U\C of the sire.'l\picalh. Harris l\Jarriccs record information uncovered during physical investigations of ~randing ~crucwres or during exea,•arion. Ar the sire of che Officers' Club we ha\'C also attempted to dc\•elop a I larri., 2C t\larrix which incorporates data from the documentary record 0 (Fig ure 9). Relev.inc accounts of the building's h 1srory m.:re scanned for information abour con::.truction. alteration. or demolition c\ent~ \\ hich could be ineorporarcd inw the marri:-.. The result i:-. a scric:-. of matrices based on borh physical and tCXtUal C\ idence \\ hich relics 011 a high lt:Yel of derail to sehemarilally represent the ~traci .grnphic life-hisco~· of this srrucrure. These matricc:s complemcnc others produced during rhe course nf earlier C\.cavarion project'> ar El Presidio. With the aid of a frccwarc produce called Stratif~ , we are now dc,·eloping a unified master sire marri" for all nf E l Presidio incorporating all of the project-specific matrices. 0 10 Figure B {left): Pershing Square electromagnetic conductiVtty map. 28 ------·••li•••iiiiiiil~ SCA N ewsletter 41(2) MR On MR065 MR002 MR036 MROSJ Figure 9: Harris Matrix J analysis of the Presidio Officers' Club matrix. GIS Over the course of20 years, four institmions have collected El Presidio mapping data. GIS is being employed w create a "geo-database'' of the archaeological site. inregracing these various sources of digital data (Figure l 0). Hand-drawn maps are being incorporated through a painstaking proces:, of digitization. !\ lapping allows us w documenr two main things: archaeological feacures revealed duringexcavarion, such as building foundations, and rhe acru~tl location of the excnvariuns themsch·es. In addirion, the gco-darnbasc is designed ro incorporate the inpuc of dara rnblcs. such as arrifacr i1n-enrories. and o,·erlays of extant buildings, utilities and aerial photos. Because of the narure of archaeological projects at E l Presidio-lasting multiple year" and run by numerous institutions-recording all of this data in a manner that is easy to review is crucial w our continued management of the site. Digital modeling (such as 3-D rcndi cions of extant and destroyed \rrucru res, poi nc provcnienccd artifact models, and sire "fly rhroughs") based on the gco-databa~e data further inform sire management, and have the added benefit of inccrprt:cive val uc. Figure 10 (right): G/S specialist Hans Barnaal. 2<) SCA Newsletter 41(2) ...------= field set up resulted in high quality post-field G IS information. ViJeo recordings about £1 Presidio have also bet:n 11~ed ro document rhe archat:ology and excavation history of rhe sire. Working wirh a varicry of panners (including local news media. Oregon Public Broadcasting System, a loca l arrisr, and UC Berkeley students) has created videos of evt:rything from news pieces ro personal narratives about field experiences. During the summer of 2006. UC Berkeley students, under rhe guidance of Ruch Tringham, created video shorts about the Presidio's history. covering everything from El Presidio ro Army laundresses co the hisroric forest. Our work with Ben Wood (MIT), a media artist, led co dozens of hours of recorded raw footage ofa deconscruccion project, as well as short. time-lapsed mon rages. Video done this way becomes pan of the archival record of the project, bur also creates an accessible produce for engaging the public in the archaeological process. Figure 11: Ben Wood filming in the Presidio Officers' Club. High Definition Documentation (Laser Scanning) Photography and Videography H igh definition survey has been used to document El Visual documentation of archaeology at El Presidio also Presidio through the creation of 30 models. In conjunction sen-es the dual purposes of site management and public with UC Berkeley, CyARK, and Silicon Valley Land Survey, interprecarion (Figure 11 ). Stills, s lides. digital phocography, we have completed landscape-scale documencation of rhe and vidcography arc all used co record El Presidio, from entire Main Pose/ El Presidio quadrangle area as well as high aspects of archaeological method to field discoveries. Current resolurion in rcrior scanning of the adobe Officers' Club efforts emphasize the incorporation of digirnl stills into tht: (Figure 12). The process of high-definition documenracion geo-darabast: described above. Working with a relatively low utilizes laser-scanning technology co create point clouds from ccch setup (a ladder and a quality digital camera), Elizabeth capcurcd dara. These clouds are highly accurate 30 models, Lee ( llC Berkeley) cook rlan phocographs of excavation units which can then be overlain with digital photographs to create which were then gco-rectificd in che database. adding a layer phororealistic models that have research, interpretive, and co lower-resolution surface aerial phocos and digitized conservation value. drawings of the same units. This low-cost, easil y-rcplicatable A UC Berkeley summer school course being raught in the summcrof2007 will train students to incorporate such digirnl documentation in co sire management Figure 12: HOD scan of the Presidio Officers' Club. planning. The course, caught by Ruth Tringham and t\lichael Ashley. wi ll culminate in rhe development of a sire management plan for Fort Winfield Scc>tt, a U.S. Army-era inscallacion ac the Presidio. Looking to the Future: New Strategies for Documenting the Pase A .... we continue co investigate the sire of El Prcs1d10, our research questions arc informed in pare b\ the ch~mging palette of methods used ro dm:umcnc the past. ' foward~ chc.;;c ends, we hope ro cmplm a number of nc\\ or highh specialiLcd technique" to examine the history of El Pre~idio in the near future. including lipid analysis, archacocnromology, archacoparasicology. and 3 l) object imaging. The expertise pn)\ idt:d through 30 --==:;....;;--=------·······-~ SCA News/elf"' 4 1(2) our partnerships(\\ ich Alexandria Archi\c I nscituce, CyARK, Franci'>CO. 2000, edited by \ my Ramsay and Barbara Culcural Herirage lnccrnacional and UC Berkeley) will allow \'o.,~. Submicced co rhc Pre'>idio Trust and :-:arional us w collect, arch he, and disseminate our findings using che Park Sen·icc by the Archaeological Re:.carch Faciliry, latest and mosc appropriate technology. University of California, Berkeley. Manuscripc on file, P residio· frust. San F rancisco, California. Se lected References Reidy, L iam Barker. Leo R. 2001 E' idcnce of EnYironmencal Change over the la'>C 2000 2007 Text-Based Reali()·: \ laterial Culture ac El P residio de ye:tr'> at \louncain Lake, in rhc northern San Francisco San Franci-.co. Paper presenced m che z4•h Annual Peninsula, Californ1a. l 'npubli'>hed ~ l a4'rcr\ thesi'>, i\l eecing of che California i\ Iission Studies Associacion, Oeparcm<.:nc of Gcographv, l ' niver~it) of California. San Francisco. Berke le). Blind. Eric B. Simmons, Erica K. ZOCH The Presidio Officer<;' Club: A Struccural Hiscory 2006 i\ GeoarclrneologicJI Anal) sis of Adobe from che l ' ndcrThree Flag•,, H ypertext on file. Presidio Tru-.c, Pre-.1dio, San Franci.,co. l'npubli.,hed -,cnior honor'> San Francisco. C.tlifornia. chesi'>. Dado, \ 'cronica Smich-Linmer, Che~· I .\. 2004 E l Presidio de San Francisco SpJni.,h Colonial 2007 Becoming Californio: Archaeology of Communities, Documcnrncion Translation Projecc. i\ lanuscripr on fi le, t\nimab, and ldcncicy in Colonial California. Presidio Trust, San Francisco. C.1lifornia. l lnpublished Ph.D. disserrncion, Dcparcmeni of Goldberg, Paul Anthropology, l l nivcr~ity of California, Berkeley. 2005 Thin Section Ob.,en·acions of Sample:. Collected from U RS Grciner \\'oodward Clyde Officers' Club. Prc.,idio. California. Submicced to the 1999 ,\rchaeological Ground Trurhmg of a Ground PrcsidioTru'>t b) rhe Department oL\rchaeolog). Penetrating Radar Scud) ac the Presidio de S,rn Boscon l niver\it). i\ lanuscript on tile, Prcsidiolht'>t. Francisco. Submicccd to the l .S. Army Corp'> of San Francisco, California. Engineers. Sacramento J)i,cric.:t. i\ lanuscripr on file, Lee, E lizabeth A. Presidio Trusc. San Francisco. California. 2006 Oigiral OocumcnCJcion and e\\ I ntcrprerations: T he \'oss. Barbara L. I ncorporacion of Rectified Digital P hotographs in co rhc 1002 The \rchacolo~ of El P rc-.idio de San Frnnt·i.,co: DocumencJtion and lnterpreration of<,;arnlhoyiik, Culture Contact, Gender, and Ethnicit) in a Spana~h Turke~ and El Pre.,idio de San Franci'>co. l ·npublished Colonial \lilira~· Communit). llnpubli<;hed Ph.D. senior honor\ che'>i'>, Dcpamnenr ofAnrhropolog). di,.,crcation, O eparrment ol"Anchropolog,, l ni,cr~icy llniversit) ofCt1lifornia. Bcrkelc). or California. BcrkclC)'. Osborn, Sannic K. Wake, ThomJ'i A. 2006 Chiles and Chocolates. Paper prescnced at the-tOch 1996 Appendix A. l: Fauna! Bone. In Archaeological Annual J\lcetin~ of che Societ) for California Di'>CO\ ci> and lm ·c.,cigacion of the H isroric Pre.,idio . \ rchacolo~. \ encura. de San Francisco Archaeological Sice, cdiced h) Popper, \ "irginia S. lhrbarJ \ o<;' and Vance Bence. Submitted co chc ll.S. 2001 Appendix 11 : i\ lacroboranic:tl .. \nah'i' of Soil Samples ,\rmy Corp:. of Engineer,, SacramcntO Di.,rrict by from El Presidio cJc San Franci:.co. San Francisco \\'oodward Clyde Consultants, Oakland, California. County. California. In Final Report: F11nsron Avenue J\ lan11,c:ript on file. Prc~idio Trust. S 31 SCA H f!Wsletfff 41(2) ..-1111iiiilmi11-1iiiiii111------ introduced objeu,. So while chc project fies comforrnbly The Tamil-Huye Archaeological Project: within che brgcr chemc of colonialism in California, ic i'> Cross-Cultural Encounters in Sixteenth e'amining ho\\ nucerial culcure affecc'> culcural change and conrinuicy from a -; lighcl) d1fferenc per'>pecti\e, b) focusing Century Northern California on ho" the Coa'>t \Ii" ok acti\ cly selected maceri ,\rcifaccs from 8an 1 \~11Hfn h the region in the mid I • eighceenth century. I"' University of California archat:ologists excavated seven Coasr Miwok vi llage and midden sires surrounding modern-day Drakes Bay from 1940 to 1951(Figure 1) (H eizer 1942: Meighan 1950: ~leighan and Heizer 1952). Their primary interest, "• however, was co locate artifacts from San Aguscfn to provide a chronomerric marker for refining the area's culture history (Heizer 1942:9). Although researchers found nearly 20% ofarrifaccs recovered from sires were European and Asian in origin (Meighan 1950:29), they °PLATE t thought che Coast Miwok reused the porcelain Figure 2: Artifacts from CA-Mrn-308, now in Point Reyes National Seashore, ceramics as Europeans excavated by Adan E. Treganza and San Francisco State College in 1959. Photo would have, for serving courtesy of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Regents food and storage. Lacer. of the University of California (Ms283). researchers from San Francisco Srnn; Colkge and ochers inscirncions excavated a[ can be broadly dclincaccd a~ a ucilic;11ia11. u1 JJI:tl{Tllilcic, model Poinc Reyes from the mid-1950s co the early-I 970s, and and a non-ucilirnrian, or symbolic. model-although we uncovered an additional se,·en sites with material from San envision rhesc model!> as two end5 of a spectrum, and chat an A~ustfn (Figure 2). Unlike che Berkeley archaeologists, they objecc's accual use and meaning may fall anywhere along chis were primaril y interes[ed in finding evidence of Sir Francis continuum. or indeed may intersect it at mul[iplc points. Drake's possible 1579 landfall, and again addressed indigenous reuse of foreign objects in a cursory way (\"on der The utilitarian, or pragmatic, model suggests chac Porten 1963:13). incroduced arcifaccs \\'ere primarily used for functional purposes (Heizer 19--1-2; lcighan 1950; i\leighan and Heizer In contrast ro d1ese hiscorical and culrure-hiscorical 1952: \ 'on tier Porren 1963, J 972). Porcelain vessels were approaches, Lightfoot and Simmons (I 998) examined used as containers for food and scorage, and were discarded as prorohisroric culcural encounters in California from a more they broke. Iron spikes were not themselves used, but were nuanced perspective, and offer a d ifferent interpretation of incidentally deposited as timbers were used for fuel or in Coast J\liwok reuse of objects from San A~usrfn. They shcl[Cr construccion. 1n addicion, che incroduccd macerial suggest thar because of the context that struccu red the Coast culture may ha,·e been used as raw materials for traditional 1iwok ·.,first encounter wich Europeans, which likely indigenous arcifacr classes, such as scrapers, beads, and occurred during che Kuksu ceremony, they may han: pendants. collected porcelain sherds and iron spikes hccausc they were \'alued as symbols of previous encounters with Europeans and The non-utilitarian. or symbolic.: model, suggcscs thac as objects that signified unknm\ n worlds (Lighrfoot and arri faces were primarily usc.;d a:. symbols of other world:. or Simmons 1998: 160)-this is a hypothesis chc projec[ will deceaseu anccscors (Lightfoot and Simmon~ 1998). examine. Introduced objects would lrnvc inherent meaning by [hemscl\'eS, and there mighr be no preference for whole The presenc research is: ( 1) drawing on theories of culwrc \'Crsus broken ceramic vessels. In chis case, foreign objcccs contact in which material culture has an active role in cre 3.1 SCA N ewslette r 4 1 (2) ..------Anthropology ar lf.C. Be rke ley and ar Point Reyes National Seashore. Sampling and analysis are being conducted at References Cited multiple scales. and ha\·e b<.:gun by sruclying each of rhe torn I I lciz.cr, R. E sire assemblages in rhe 'lama I Hliyc area chat contain artifocrs 1942 Archaeological Evidence ofSe;:bascian Rodriquez from Sun A,gustfn. Analysis is evaluating the context and Cermeno\ California Visit in 1595. California spacial :issociation:- ofborh inrroduced and indigenou~ objects I I iscorica/ Socicf) Quam:rly ~()( 4 ): l-32. ro itlenrify parrerns associatetl with particular acti,·icics and Lightfoot. K. G. determine how artifacts were used in daily practice. ext, the 2005 Indians, f\Jissionaries. and 1\h:rch;ints: The Legacy of project i!> narrowing the focus to examine in demi I jusr the Cvlonicil l~ncouncc:rs on the C;i/ifornia Frontiers. introduced material culture w determine if Coast Mi\\ ok l lniversit) ofCalifornia Press. Berkelc). individuals selected particula r ceramic vessel forms or designs more frequently than others and co dcrermin<.: if Lightfoot, K. G .. /\. t\ lartinez and A. i\I. Schiff salvage and 5elecri on of particular objeers were dictar<.:d by 1998 Daily Practice and i\ !accrial Culture in Pluralistic cultural \'alues (Wilkie 2000; Wilkie and Farnsworth 1999, Social Semngs: An Archaeological Srudy of Culture ZOOS). Demi led analyses of European and Asia n 34 Assessing and Protecting Resources Along the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail Srnnley C. Bond, Ph.D.. Superintendent Juan Brnirista de; Anza J ational I liswric Trnil J 111 Jackson Screcr, Suire 700 Oakland, CA 94607 510-817-1-138 he Congressionally-aurhorized J uan Baurisra de Anza National Historic Trail extends 1,200 m il es from T ogales, AZ tO San Francisco and around the East Bay. Additionall y there arc anorhcr 640 miles of potentia l Anza trail in Sinaloa, Sonora, and Baja California, ~1Jcxico. (Figure I) The ational Park Service does nor own anv rrail land, except char which passes through established parks, but Figure 1: Anza Expedition Route from Culiacan, Sinaloa, administers the rrail through a system of partnerships and Mexico to San Francisco, California. Courtesy of the NPS. cooperative agreements wirh federal, tribal, scare. and local agencies; non-profir groups; and privarc landowners ew Spain against various hostile Indian rrib~~fffmtt>W?J The Anza Trail roday passes through both rural and urban the Apaches and Seris. By 1772, the Spanish viceroy areas. Urban sires include Tucson, Los Angeles. San Jose, San recognized the need ro develop an overland route to Francisco. and Oakland. The 2000 census shows well over California for more consisrenr supplies and to place a presidio 27,000,000 people living in the 19 counties that contain the ar San Francisco Bay tO block Russian and British advances Anza Trail. This area includes 28 congressional districts and down the coast. Viceroy Antonio Bucareli charged Anza with four United Scates senate districts. Urban areas offer rhe Anza rhis cask, recruiring settlers, an The goals of the Anza Trail projeer are to establish a continuous driving and multi-use recreation trail route based on rhe hist0ric corridor. assist communities in preserving related historic sires along the Anza Trail route, and use interpretive and educational programs tO cell the Anza Expedition story. There arc five broad trail rhemes that guide Anza Trail interpretive and educational programs: (I) commemorate rhc Anza Expedition Route, the success of the expedition. and the 1776 settlement of San Francisco: (2) celebrate the di\'c::rsiry of the soldiers and seeders of the Ariza Expedition; (3) highlight the role played by Native American groups along rhe trail co make the expedition a success: (4) exan1inc rhc consequences of European serrlemenr on local Indian groups. and: (5) examine the cn,·ironmenral consequences of European scnlcmcnr. Historic Background Juan Bautista de t\n,t,a "as born in 1736 at lhc prc~iuio of Fronceras. Sonora. t\ lcxico. (Figure 2) Hi., father had <>en ed Spain in chis region for rhe greater parr of his life and was killed in an Indian battle just before ,\nz,1's fourch birthda). !\nz.a spcnc hi~ fir1'r 2S years ofmilirnr~ ~en ice in Sonora. During thi:; time. he wa<; ~1 c rivc in de fending rhe frontier of 35 SCA H e w sletlH 4 1( 2) ...------~ along'' ith abouc 1,000 head ofli\'csrock from Culiacan. conrribure ro the managemcnr of these significant cultural \lc'\ico co the San Francisco Bav area (for ti<.: mil<. on the. \n.1.a n.:~ourcc~. The fiVit project, funded in 2005. is rhe E'\pedition '>CC Bolton 1917, 19JO; Garacc 1994; Guerrero de' clopmcnt of an archaeolog1cal research design for 2006; Pouradc 1971 ). These soldiers, '>Crrlcs. Ii' csrock, and locating Anza Expedition campsites and developing a model a.,sociaccd material gave Spanish sertlcmcncs in California of'' hat rho~e sites might look like. The archaeological che cririe•ll ma;;s necessarv for re la ti\ c ~clf-snfficicncy and re.'>carch de:-.i.e;n for campsite locations is based on several '>Ct'> their ulcimacc '>Urvival. of data rhac can he lp pinpoint thc~c locations. One set is chc journals of Anza and Font. Borh of these men often gaYc The An.1.a Expedition recruits ...vcn.: main I) poor landless written descriptions of the camr locations. In addition. Font mesci,i;os from Sinaloa and Sonora. 1 lowevcr, th<.: group was cook laricucle and longicuclc measurements for each camrsicc. '<.:ry di\ er'c and included criollos. penin,ularies, mulartos, \\'hilc these reading arc nor complete I) accurate due to I 8'i. and indio,. Perhaps as many as 30%- ofrhc rceruH., had some ccntur\ technology. chc) do help narrO\\ down potential '>it<.: .\fncan ancc'>m. ~ lason ( 1998) has sho'' n that California locacion'>. Bo Icon ( 1930) mad<.: C\\ o cxploracions along hi., ethnic cla'>'>ifict~tions changed O\ er rime and b) abouc 1800 h) poch<.:'>izcd rouce. and hi., darn arc important in :-ouch di.,cinccion~ ''ere dropped in fa, or of rcrm., such as undcrstandi ng che land~cape f1.:acurc'> of,\rizona and Ca/ifornio and f.!Cnccs de razon. Since .\nt. 56 ------····••iiiiiiiiia.. SCA Newsletter 41(2) Cary Ranch site. The site is located at the head of the Mission San Juan Bautista: 1erwilli~er Valley through San Carlos Pass and closely matches the description in Anza 'sand Font's journals. This Zooarchaeological Investigations project will a llow us to begin testing some of rhc assumptions developed in the archaeological research design and cam at a California Mission model. Or. William Eckerr is the Principal investigator with assistance provided by the La Puerta Foundation. J\fichel/c C. Sc.Clair-Jerman. RPA. Senior Archaeologisr Jones & Srokes, JO Lombard Streer. Sec. -110 S;m Francisco, CA 94111 Conclusion -11 .5-296-95 71 The Anza Trail projects have assumed an active research [email protected] role in defining and locaring significant cul rural resources a long rhc hiscoric expcdiri on corridor. The projccrs should he Spanish penetration and settlemenc of Alea assisr comm u niries along rhc Anza Trail wi rh prcscrvi ng rhcse Cali fornia created a ne" social and narural environment. Cali fornia mission sites represcnr imporranc resources and give Anza Trail ~raff new information T to enhance educational and inrerpretive programs. important opporcunitics ro study Nacive American life after the arriYal of rhe Spanish. In particular, scholars point to changes in ative American diet and subsisrencc rhar References Cited occurred as a resulr of rhc colonizarion and conccnrrarion of Beebe. Rose Marie and Robert M. Senkewiez native people at the missions. i\·ly masrer·s thesis (Sc. Clair 2006 'Lestimonios: Early California 1 '/Jrough che Eyes of 200.5) focused specifically on the zooarchaeological analysis \Vomcn. 1815-1848. Heyday Books, Berkley, CA. offaunal remains from rhc Ncophy(I.; Housing Area and Courtyard of!\ lission San Juan Bautisrn to discern how Bolton, Herbert Eugene aboriginal subsisrcnce pracrices were affected by 1917 Fonc s Complete Diary: A Chronicle ofthe founding of rnissionization. A primarily huncer-gatherer diet char ccnrcred San Francisco. University of Cali fornia Press, Berkley. on wild game and planes was dramarically changed co one J 930 Anza California Expcdirions. Five \'olumcs. s focused on domesticaccd animals and agriculture. The fauna! University of Cali fornia Press, Berkley. rcmains from both areas of[\ I ission San Juan Bau tis ta Brown, Allen represenr the urilizario n of domesticated animals primarily 2007 Personal Communication on publication of a new for consumption by the populacion of the mission. From this, rranslacion of the Foncjournal through the University the importance of domcsricared animals co the functioning of of Oklahoma Press. rhc mission economy in borh food-r<..:hm:d and non-food related use is inferred. Castillo, Edward 0. 1978 ''The I mpacc of Euro-American Exploration and This study anempred w make a staremcnr about whar Settlemenr" in H1111dbook ofi\'orch American Indian.5. animals were utilized ar the mission for food and other \ 'olume 8, C;1lifomia. Edited by Robe re E Heizer. productS. It looked for indicarions of certain butchery Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. patterns. as well as determined the cxtenc co which Costello, Julia G. and David Hornbeck indigenous animal species played a role as a food source. 1981 "Alta Cali fornia: An Overview" in Columbian What was discovered was that domesticated animals, Consequences, \ olume 1, Archacologr and Hiscorical especiall y cattle, were relied upon heavily for consumprion Pcrspcctilfeson chcSpanish Borderlands \\esc. Edited (Figure 1 ). Carrie were also crirical ro the economic by David Hurst Thomas. Smithsonian Insrirution Press. functioning of rhe mission for trade of hides and tallow. The Washington, DC. founal analysis revealed that ribs were apparently the mosc utilized and butchered element presenc in rhc assemblages. Ir Gararc, Don was concluded rhat ribs are one ofche c lemenrs noc discarded 1994 Juan Baucisca de Anza Nacional Historic Trail. Western at rhe burchery site because they could not be easily stripped Parks and ~lonumencs Association. Tucson, AZ. of their meat. Ribs wirh anachctl verrebrae were rransponcd Guerrero, Vlatlimir as a larger unit back ro the mission where the~ were furrhcr 2006 The AnZ away from rhc mi~~ion. Tndirecrly, rhc Frnnl'isco 177-1 co I 776. Copley Books, San Diego, importance of tlomcsric anim::tl'> at 1\ I ission San Juan Bauti))t:.J CA was infcrr<..:tl from the lack of wild animal remain)) in the 37 SCA H ewskttte' 41(2} .M••••••••------~ fauna I a"cmbl:lge<>. :\r borh rhc Court) JHl \re a .ind the continuing importance of tlome.,cic cattle to che .·\Ira ~coph' re I lousing .\rea, '' ild animal remain' make up lcs-, California econorn) durin,g th!'> time.:. rhan one perccm of the t0tal as..,emhlage. \\'ild animals ma) h ( 1991 ), wen.: rhe more Gre111 Blue Heron acculrurarcd groups who had Ii\ ed at the mission O\·cr a period Caule of generation:-.. \\'hen ocher I recm crcd arrifocc ... arc.: considt.:rcd Calf from boch area-., we do c;cc glimp-.c' ofcradicional Squurel 11 tech nolog\ of;--: ati\ e American.,. such ~1'> lirhic roob and <>hell Dog or Woll bead~. bur rhere i'> aho progrc;v,ion or adaprnrion co nC\\ Cai ~ material t) pcs. as is evidenced by modified glass and ceramic Duck picccs ac lhe c.:ophyrc I-l ousing Arca. I ncra--;ice comparison at rhe p mi-.-.ion cmphasi1,es how domc,tic animal use predominatc!'t missional) and '\;ni' e \mcrican realms of the c Turl\ey m1"ion and further emphasizes 0 >< p rheir 1111porcancc. ~ Deer Figure 1: Number of lndenttf1able Specimens (NISP) In addirion rn the proccssc:-. Shrep J and 11:..cs of domestic animab at J==J ~I is~ion San Juan Baurista Pig 0 Courtyard indicared. another interesting poinc i'> made from rhc faunal R 35 30 30 Figure 2: Distribution of Butchered Elements 0 Courtyard 25 0 Neophyte Housing 20 c: -::i 0 CJ 15 15 14 11 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 0 Q) Q) tn Q) Q) Q) Q) Q) tn ..... tn tn tn Q) J!! ::I co co J!! >< -0 ('O co co co co ~ E .0 c ::I ::I c ::I ·5 2 ::I ...... J!! ~ ...... 0 :::> :0 Q) ..... ('O ;Q Ctl ..... ro E -0 Q) Q; >. a. .0 .0 <{ .0 .0 .0 .0 is brought about by direct concact bcrwecn che individuals of suggests. This study hopes co raise further questions abour rhc these societies. Tl owever, the daca gencraced from chis study role of domestic animals ac che Alta California missions, as raise new questions abour adaptation, exchange, and well as related presidio, pueblo, rancho, and even inceracrion between ladve Americans and the Spanish in protohisroric Narive American sires. California. There is a negotiation of new society, in chis case brought about by the introducrion of domestic animals. This References Cited study demonstrates char while ic is undeniable char the domesticated animals were imporcanc to che mission Farris, Glenn J. economy, how arive Americans chose ro interact wirh chem 1991 Archaeological Testing in the Neophyte Family both inside and outside rhe mission was negotiable. I lousing Arca ar '1ission Sanjuan Baurisrn, California. Historical. documentary. and archaeolo~ical evidence on A report by rhc Resource Protection Division of the non-Christian Na rive Americans societies living outside the California Deparrmenr of Parks and Rccrcarion. mission. as well as archaeological evidence of the adapcarion Sc. Clair. l\ I ichellc C. of Spanish materials goods and retention of traditional 2005 l\ I ission San Juan Baurisca: Zooarchaeological practices by acive Americans living at the mission. arrest ro Tnvcscigmions ac a California t-. 1ission. ;'\lasccr's Thcsi!>. a society nor as black and white as acculturation thcor-:- College of William and l\br). Williamsburg, \ 'irginia . .)9 SCA Newsletter 41( 2) Alliiilllill••••llil•lliil•------New Sources for Early 19111 Century \ 1,1dimirS. Sohob ). Chief California History: The Russian aval \ rt·hn i.,c I ,yudmila in Sp1ridonm·a. and Archives St. Petersburg phorographer 1'inll 1' riuko\'. Th<.; ke\ Glenn F:trri.\. Ca lifornia Stare P:trb accomplishment of c.:g inning in 1806 wirh rhc visit of ikolai Rezano\' chi., on e.: week trip aboard rhc.: Ju no, Cali fornia wa<. ' i'>itt.:d by a number of was to review the 'hips of rhe Russian miv). T he:.e ship~" ere mo<>rly in linding aids of chc B to one of rn o caregories: (I) round-rhc-" orld 'oyagcs of data •\r chi' c and Lav collecrion and di~co, · cry, and; (2) ,hip... 'enc ro rhe :'\orch ouc our expec:tauon!> Paci tic Ocean on picket du~ folio" ing T,ar. \ k-:ander I\ of rhc re:.ulc~ of rhc uk:/\c (decrc:e) of 182 I diccacing chc nec.:d ro control rhc col lahorarion. m:w,j, c.: poaching of foreign ">hip~ in rhc "atc.:r., of Rus'iian W hereas a greac . \ mcrica. \ lrhough formal rc.:porr., from the captain~ of a deal of rhc.: numbcr of these '>hips have been publi.,hed O\'er rhe years d()(:umenrarion of (e.g.. Ciolornin 1979; Kotzebue 1821, I 830), rhc.: da) -ro-da\' the.: Rus'iian journab ofrhc o ffi cers and scie ntists ~1 board have remained Amc.: rica n Com panv brgdy unpubli !> hc.:d (ar lease in English). They are ruckcd "a'> handc.:d over co cl\\ Cl) in the Ru'isian Na\'al Archi\ e ... in St. Percr... burg. The rhc l ' nircd Scare'> ar likelihood rhar rhesc.: journal<> of cducared 1rn:n could hold Dmitry Zavalishin che ti mc of rhe fa,c:inating nc" derails of life in Californi.1 in chc.: early 1800<> purLh:t'>C oL\laska i<> hiJ?;h. The' alue of jourmils O\ cr the publi,hed repons is in 1867 and nO\\ re'>ide -1 0 ------······... SCA Newsletter 41(2) The m·ailable published accounrs of Russian naval visir'> References Cited have already pro" eel a rrca-,urc rrO\e for California Chami'>'>O. J\ddberc 'on erhnohi'>ml") and hi.,cor). Scarting \\ ith rhe drawings by von 1986 \ \''·'age .mmncl chc 11or/d 11 ich che RomanL01 Langsdorff from 1806 (\on Lang.,dorff 1968) and moving on E\ploring /~ ,pcclirion in chc }cars 1815-1818 in the ro rhe descriprion:. made during rhc , · j~irs of Ono von Brit~ Rurik. Captain Occo \ on 1'uczcbuc. Translarcd and 1816 1824 ( 1821. 1830) 1'otzebue in and along with seiencisrs c..:ditcd b\ I Jenn Kratz. I lonolulu: l-ni\'ersi~ of l lawaii and artists on his cxpcdi cionc; 11,oui'> Choris. :\delberc ,·on Pre'>'>. Chamis'><> ( 1986)1. ''e ha,·e im aluable doeumcncacion of the Indians at chc California mi-;sion., in rhe San Francisco Ba) Farri.,, Glenn j. area. For Bodega Ba) in 1818 rhcre arc the accouncs of\·a.,ilii 1993 \ 'i'>it of the Ru.,.,1an \\'arship Apollo co California in Golovnin (1979), captain of the 1'amch:icka. along with the 1822- 18.23. (l'ranslaccd from the original French and only cxcanc dra\\ in gs of Bodega l\ I iwok people in the earl) annornccd b) Glenn Farris.) So11chern Californi11 19'h ccncury done b) :-.. t ikhail Tikhanm (Farris 1998). Quam.:rl~ 75( 1):1-13. accompanied b) dcscriptions b) officers on the ship. I han:: 1998 The Bodega ;\ l i\~ok ao; seen by l\ l ikhail TikhonoYich separarcly pubJi.,hcu a brief acco11nr by Achille Schabelski. ' l'ikhano\ in 1818. Journal ofCalifornia 11nd Grear the interprerer on the naval s loop /\pol/on during his visit in 13a,,in Anchmpolog) 20 (I )2-12~ 1822-23 (Farris 1993), and rhcre is rhc fascinating accounr Farris. Glenn J., 1\ lauricc I lodgson. and Andrew C. F. David written by D m itri %av.1lishin ( 197.)) of his visir co San 2004 Thc Ca Ii f'orn i~1 Journa I of Lieu ten am Edward Belcher Francisco in 1824. I lowevcr. a ll ofrhese were wrirren up aboard 11. 1\ 1.S. Blossom in 1826 and 1827. Bolccfn. chc: several years afo.:r rhc vi<>ir and so tended more ro·ward .fourn:tl o/'chc: Cu/ifornia 1\fosion Scudies Association. impressions and gcncrali1.;1rion:. rnther than day-by-day .21 (I ):45-67. accounts rhar one linds in journals. By con erase, rhe .. real rime" accounr provided b) '>Omcone like rhe naval lieuccnanr GolO\ nin. \ '~1silii \ I. Edward lklcher in 1826 and 1827 (Farris ct al. 2004) shows 1979 , \ mum/ chc: \\ 'orld on chc Kamcharka. 1817-1819. the value of follcrn ing chc trip in its real chronology. 'Jhin.,Jarcd. \\ ith an lncroduction and '\ores. by Ella Lur) \\'j-,,, ell. I lonolulu: The I lawaiian 1-liscorical Dr. Sobole\. din.:cmr ofchc Ru-;,ian ,\rchi\'es. seated in a Socict) 41 SCA Newslettff 41(2) Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii------'--'= Making Pathways Through Traditions: An visics co chc park tnd chc incerpreci\·e crail. \\'ich this work complete, the projecc is turning ics acrencion co che Update on the Kashaya Pomo Interpretive developmenc of 1 he Ea~r Loop and invescigarion of che Trail Project stockade's , orrh \\'all art:a. Sara L. (;mu.;1 / c.: / The North Wall Project Ocpc. ofAmhropolom. l ·c Jkrkc.:lc.:) As" e begin rhi-., nc\\ pha-.e of the project. Kent. Oti!>. and Email: gonLals:1@herkc:lc~.c:cJu I "ill be hosting. 1 field \chool this summer co undertake new archaeological ill\ e'>rigation'> at CA-SON-190. The sire ore Ro,., Smee 11 i'>coric Park i!) perchcd acop a coastal trinomial refers to boch the hi~roric Russian srockade and the terrace in Sonoma Councy. approximately 90 hisroric multi-ethnic' illage "ich a ' ati\'e Californian F mile!) north of San Francisco. \\'hilc chc main component, located along: irs ' forrh \\'all. The sice was occupant'> of che fore now consio;r of ..,chool-aged children re occupied during the Rus~ian Period ( 1812-184 l) and possibl) enacting life ar rhc former Ru!)sian-Amc;rican Company ar differenc poincs during the 1\ lexican (1841-1846) and sccrlement, from 18 12- 1841 it was a mercancilc oucposr where American ( 1846- 1903) period". le is most recencly che company's Russian, Creole, Nacive Alaskan and Nacive remembered a'> Lhe site of the old Ranger's house ar Fore Californinn h1borcrs worked and li ved. Ofo.:n called Ross, which wa:-. destroyed through a concrolled burn. Existing California's first mulci-cthnic com mu nit) (Lightfoot er al. archaeological and uocumenrnry information suggest char rhe 1993: 16 1) and a global ,·illage (J>arkman 1996/1997), Seknic site was the location of either •l ative Californian village Ross as ir was origina l! ~ e~ill ed was cstablished within J\ lecini. inh.ibitcd bv laborers, or rhe residence of the colonv's Russian rhe Kasha ya Pomo\ homel ~rncl. ' l hd~1y. the park boasts an or Creole w;1rker.., and rheir Native Californian spo~1 scs impres~i' c reconscrucced stockade and well-developed (Ballard 1997). t li ... wric illtmrarions of the colonv b' Duhaur inrcrpreti,·e program char cducaces children and' isicors about Cilly (in 1828) and \ o..me!>emkii (in 1841) depic~ sr~nding: California\ unique Ru!>sian hcrirnge. architccturc in che '>C~ le of Rus~ian plank houses and enclosed ficltls. The Kashaya Pomo Interpretive Trail Project Origin;ill). the 'ire wa~ named " Indian Site ~o. I" b~ In n.:ccnc year... archaeologi'>t'> at l 'C Berkele~ ha,·e Treg.uva and de-.,crihed a'>: rc;1mcd '' irh che 1-: a,ha~ a Pomo Tribe and Scare Parks in an cfforr to UC\ clop the Ka..,ha) a Pomo I ncerpreci,·c Trail. a immcdiace to rhc cncire north 'rnll of the Fon. walkable culcural herirngc trail thac fcacurc<; the hiscory of the extending m the back ofrhc chapel and including rwo re,gion ·s first inhahirnnt'>, the 1-: a.,haya Pomo. their interactions "hite cocrnge '> O\\ ned b~ \Ir. Call [Treganza 195-t: 18]. '' ich rhc Ru ... sian <;ctdemenc, and archaeological sites within che Scace 1 li.,mric Park. The plan for the m1il i!) di' ided into The site ha ... been archaeologically tested a number of rime'>. nrn loop'>. E;l\t ;1nu \ \'cM. ' I 'he Ea'>t I ,oop "ii I "ind around the The majorit\ ol che!>c project'>" ere dcsigned to mitigate the recon'itructed \tockauc and fe;1rure archaeological sites impacc of the '>tockadc \multiple reconstructions and ocher a'>\ociaced "ich the mulci-erhnic communicics of Fore Ross. con.,cruccicm rel.ired •lcti\ itie!>. De'> pi re thi!> heav~ The \\'est Loop'' ill rake \'i\iror:-. outside che stockade walls disturbance, porrion... of the :.ice con rain intact cultural and onto the coastal rerrnce. I )ere the trnil stops focus on che depo~ics char. ;1l ong with the pn::' iousl) unreported material Kasha ya Pomo· l'ribc. ih deep hc;riragc \\ ichin the park. and exc•l\·acetl from rhc site, can be u~ed ro seccle sen:n1I the usc ofarehaeolog~. oral cradition:-.. and oral hist0r) ro unresolved is,.,ucs about the; s ite.: ~uch a!> ics occupational understand chi:. past. histor) and ui.e . •tnd relationship w other residencial space'> ac the colon). I nformacion from excavations also sug:~e:>ts chat l lndcr rhe co-direcror'>hip of !-:enc Lightfoot (l lC rhese deposit~ arc pon::ntiall~ related co the scrucrures lkrkclt:v) and Ori' Parri.,h (I leam '.\lu~eum of depicted in both \ 'ozen-;cn ... kii and Duhaur-Cilly's ,\nchropology), the projecc lw'>tctl a month-long field <;chool illuittrarion-;. ar Fore Ro's in the \um mer of 2004 dc'>igncd co survey the proposed trail parhw;l\ and <:ollaborace "ith 1-:a~haya rribal In 2006 "e conducted archaeological reconna1~'>ance cider'> and -.cholar-. on the de' elopmenc of the trail. \\'ich che along chc '-.orth \\all area dc~i.~ned co: (I l idencify rhe help of a ream of undergr;1d11atc re'>earch apprcncice!>. we location of depm it'> related co che 'iite: (2) determine an h;I \ c compiled the re., ult\ of chi'> tield\\ork into J working appropn;Hc pa elm '" for the.: E.1... r Loop of the rrail. and; (3) tc'>t pl.in for rhe inccrpreti\ c rr;1il and I h,1\ c completed a pre\ iou..,h 1dcnt1ficd dcpm1t\ pocencially related to the t"ompanwn '' cbsice for chc .._a,ha\ a Pomo I ncerpreci,·e Trnil ... rrucmrc., de1m 1cd 111 hi'>toric illu .. rracion<. (see front'>piece co .111d the \\'c,t L oop (Figure I). The'' eb.,ite ha., been chi-. ~ecrnm. page.: l.)). \..,part ofthi'> work we created a nc" tJc,igncd to compliment the pin -.ieal trail." hich ha'> yet to topograplrn: m.1p or the '>ICC ll'>lllg an Electronic Di!> ta nee be con ... rrucred, b~ offering an .1ltcrn;1ti\ e p;1thwa~ for' isiror<., \lctcr bplore the heritage of the Kashaya Pomo tribe and the multi-ethnic colony of Fort Ross, a 19th century Russian American Company settlement on the Sonoma County coast. Joumev along the Kashaya Pomo Interpretive Trail. Dlscever the worlds and lives or the communities who called this place home. learn the tools archaeologists use to excavate the past. Immerse yourself in the rugged North Coast of California. Figure 1: Homepage for the Kashaya Pomo Interpretive Trail Website. excavation. As in the development of the West Loop, we will this fieldwork directly into the era ii and website is also conduct this fieldwork in consultation with tribal members another important feature. as it allows us to present the results and with critical input from Reno Franklin, the Kashaya Pomo of our research directly to the public and in a format that is Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. Proceeding in this more widely accessible than a traditional site report. manner allows us co merge archaeological and ethnog raphic data for each s ire featured along the trail and to incorporate References Cited the feedback we receive from tribal elders and members Ballard, Hannah directly inrn the East Loop of the trail. J 997 Ethnicity and Chronology at Metini, Fon Ross Scace Historic Park, California. ln The Archaeology of Conclusion Russian Colonialism in rhc orrh and Tropical Pacific, It is a hard practice. even for seasoned archaeologists. co edited by P.R. Mills and A. Marrinez, pp. 116-140. imagine the things under our feet as they were in the past. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers. Berkeley. For today's visitors to the Fort who only see an imposing Lightfoot, Kent G . .'fom A.Wake and Ann r-.J. Schiff reconstructed Russian stockade, it is important that we help 1993 lative Responses to the Russian Mercantile Colony of them imagine the unseen features of Colony R oss. The rich Fort Ross, Northern California. Journal of Field visual, rcxrual and archaeological resources of die orth Wall /\rchaeolof(y 20: 159-1 75. area make it a prime candidate for imcrprctarion on the East Loop and an ideal space for furrher investigating the nature of Parkman, Breck Fort Ross's multi-ethnic communities and imer-cthnic ( 1996/1997) Fort and Sccrlemcnc: lnrerpreting the Past at households. For rhe North \Vall area we can thus use existing Fort Ross State Historic Park. California Hisrory75(4): 354-369. i Ilustrations to su pplemem archaeological and eth noh isroric information to give visitors a tangible link to the Treganza.Adan E. communities and stories char arc connected through this 1954 Fore Hoss: A Seu cir in ArchacolOf0'. Reports of the place-something we are unable co do at ocher stops along l l ni\ cr~ity of California 1\rchaeological Survey. vol. 23. the trail such as at the Nati,·e Ala~kan \ 'illage. Incorporating Dept. of!\nthropoloi;y. CC-Berkeley. 43 SCA Newsletter 41(2) ..------~= @ Archaeology Public Day Participating Organizations: the 2007 Annual Meeting California Archaeological Site Stewardship Program Campbell Historical Museum and Ainsley House Foundation David Reed Cohen Chinese Historical and C ultural Project r\rchaeological Research Facility. Unii-crsiry of Discovery Museum of Sacramento Californie1 at Berkeley East Bay Regional Parks District - Coyote Hills dcohen@berkc::/c:)'. c:du :ind Folklorico Nacional Mexicano Liz 1\1. C/c1'cngcr Hi story San Jose Presidio Archaeology Lab, Presidio Trust Institute for Canine Forensics /c/cl'[email protected]' Japanese American Museum of San Jose Los Californianos i\nned wich purpose and an army ofvolunceer~, the First (Annual) SCA Archaeology Public Day was a Muwekma Ohlone Tribe success. Our vision was co bring together participants National Park Service - Golden Gate National Recreation Area from across chc srnte, from archaeology and related National Park Service - Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail disciplines, w engage with and educate chc public Society of Primitive Technology about California's past and people. At the heart of this The Old Ways Workshop ''as our de;;sire co make whac we do more accessible and exciting to an inrcrcsccd group of avid consumers Outside Educators of archaeological information, aka "the general Paci fie Legacy pubic." By providing chem with ways co furrhcr their Phoenix Obsidian Designs inrerescs and the ability co direcrly engage with the Questers archaeological community, we create impommc San Jo~e State University ad\'ocatcs for our work oucside of our field. Stanford University The Public Day became a real it) through a UC Berkeley parrnership between the public outreach programs of URS 44 ------·········... SCA N e w sletter 41(2) PC-Berke le)\ Archaeological Rc!)earch Facilit) and the Presidio Tn.... r\ .\rchaeolog) Lab. B) participating in similar e\ cnt'> our-,eh c-,, we have become aware of ocher organ11ations with similar public-ccnr<.:red goals that \\e were able co t.•all on co participate. Their n;.,pome~ were \'Cr) enth ll'>i:.l'>Cic! Wich Z.) organizations lined up co participate (see page 44). we rnrncd our accention to publicity to ensure a good curnouc for che C\ enc. Because.: ofrhe Cali fornia Scare Teaching Scandards char cm er California histor). we sent mailing-. co primal} -;choob in rhe area co re;l(.:h teachers anc.I -,cu Tht: 1\rchacolog) Public D a' \\'''held on Sunday, l\larch 15, at tht: cnd of the 2007 t\nnual l\ kecing in San Jose. 0\ cr 350 mcmber' ofthc public am.:nc.lcd chc rn o-hour e\'ent. ~him of chose were children, mngtnf.: from coddle rs co high -.choolcr'>. \ho in anendance \\ crc tcachcr\, a Boy Scouc troop. and lot.·al familie~ . . \number of SC.\ members also dropped by chc C\'ent, inclutling I mmcdiate PaM President Frank Ba) ham and President Stcphcn I lornc. \ 'isitcm. co chc event were incrodut.·ed co a" idc spectrum of archacologicai. cultural. and hi,torical insricutions. Public Da) C'.hibiror:. included mu~eum'>. uniYt:rsitics. governmcnc agcnt.·ic'>, dc .. cendanc communitic'>, technical speciali'>t'>, costumed interpreters. and dancer\. \!ember'> of the public \\ere able.: to meet and talk to descendant group:. including the \Im\ ck ma Ohlone, Los Californiano-.., the Chinese 11 i\torical and Cultural Project, and members of che Japane:.e Amcrican \I u'>cum of San Jo:.c. Art.·hacologists and other profc.,.,ional ~pecialists were also on hand. including a zooarchacologist, canine forensic !-.pcc:ialists. and educators and inccrprcci\'e specialises. Booth' at rhc event rangcd frnm information tables to hands-on activities. People coulc.I tr) their hand ac traditional technologic~ including knapping, ba-;kctr), and food preparation. Sc' era! stations taught archaeological methods. including e:xca\'ation. artifact idcntiticacion. and stratigraphic analy-.i .... I )cmonscrations showed C\ cf) thing from gra\'e dctcccion clogs ar work ro rhe in., •me.I \Vc would like co thank cvcryonc who contributed co chc success of the.: Archaeology Public D ay. including our exhibitors and event voluncccrs, the Annual l\lcccing Chairs, and chc SC1\ Board. If you have any questions or comment!), pica'<: fed free co contact us at: - Th.mk \OU! 45 SCA Hewslettel' 41(2) ..------~ National Preservation Institute 2007 NORTHWEST RESEARCH Seminars in Historic Preservation & Cultural Resource Management OBSIDIAN STVDIES LABORATORY Professional training Cor I.he rn a nagcm cn~ preservallon, and stewardship 1)f our cultural heritage. Contlict Obsidian and Basalt Trace Element Studies Ritsollllwn and \egottat10n Tools for Cultural and Obsidian Hydration Measurements .\'mural Resource ProJl!Cts(San Simeon) • .\liGPR.1 and Obsidian Source Studies ,· /Rf~.J: Applicauons and Reqummu.mts Sharon A Waechter Technica l Editing Ser vices PO Box 2083 Davis California , 95617 (530) 668-4 144 sha ronOdcn. org Edu c affon/Experien ce v MA in Anthropology. UC Davis 1978 The Archoeolooicol Co nser uo n c ~ v MA in English/Writing. UC Davis 1983 0 ' More than 25 years of experience writing and editing technical archaeological reports, f re· serving endc.ingered Jrchaeolog1c..1I sites research papers. theses. and public thruughoul the countl!J (or 2-; _yc ' Documents over 100 poges ...... $65/hour· rl'klOC\"'lr\ , .., _, tl"' li <":!Tf t • ~~nchur11 ... , ,,., ... ,, . ~m "Rapid tum-around seNice 15% additional -16 Calendar of Events October 13-15, 2007. The Twenty-first Annual Indian Conference wi ll be held ar Dominican University. August 3-5, 2007. Inaugural Keeler Conference and Easrside San Rafael, CA. Conract: Archur Ki1nc Scocc Dara-Sharing Meeting. Co-chaired by Mark Basgall and [email protected]. Tom Mills. Co-sponsored by Cal trans District 09. New meetings d1at examine rhc nature of past human acriviries O ctober 19'\ 2007. The Sama Cruz Archaeological Society is sponsoring a lecture on rhe 2006 within the Inyo-Mono region and Eastern Sierra. Attendees Excavation at che San Francisco Presidio. Sesnon must presenr a paper as aurhor or co-aurhor. Camping ar rhe Big Springs Campground. P resenrarions ar Calrrans Disrricr House, 6500 Soqucl Drive, Apros, CA, 7:30 PM. Presented by che staff and students of rhe Cabrillo 09 Office in Bishop. Field trip. Due to facility size College Archaeological Technology Program. attendance is limired ro 40 parricipanrs. RSVP early- no later than July 30'h co: Tom Mills - 760-872-2424 or November 29'\ 2007. i\AA Annual Meeting. [email protected]. Washington, D.C. September 14-16, 2007. 9rh Annual Conference ofrhe November 29-December 3, 2007. Society for Marine British Association for Biological Anrhropology and Mammalogy 17'h Biennial Conference on the Osreoarchaeology (BA BAO) wi ll be held at the Biology of Marine Mammals. H eld ar chc Cape Town Departmenr of Archaeology, University of Reading. See lncernarional Convention Center in Cape ' fown, call for papers at www.babaotemp.bham.ac.uk/ South Africa. Conference website T BA. Call%20for%20papers%202007.doc; the deadline for absrract submission is 01 August 2007. January 3-6, 2008. Archaeological Institute of America Meeting held at che Hyau Regency in Chicago. F irsc September 26-27, 2007. 9th arional Palaeopathology call for papers. lmp//www.archaeological.org. Contact Congress www.uv.es/paleolab/Morella2007. 1-kle n Evans- [email protected]. October 6 -7, 2007 P roject Archaeology Workshop for January 9-12, 2008. Societ) for Historical ' lb1chers at the Presidio of San Francisco. Sponsored by ArchaeologyAnnua l Meeting at the H yatt Regency the Archaeological Research Facility, University of Albuquerque in Albuquerque, J .1\ 1. Theme "The California, Berkeley and the Presidio Trust. Space limited Public Benefi rs of H istorica I Archaeology." (h.wl;.// and registration required. Email: www.sha.org) [email protected]· for mcm: in formation. March 25-30, 2008. SAA Annual J\ leeting. \ "ancouver. October 25, 2007 Thomas E King lecture and book signing British Columbia, Canada. 'Saving Places'] 'hac Alaccer: A Citizens Guide co chc J\'ational Historic Preservation Act. Sponsored by Left April 17-20, 2008. SCA Annual Meeting robe held at Coast Press and the Presidio Trust. Free, public invited che H ii ton Burbank Airport and Convention Center, Thursday 7pm Presidio of San Francisco Officers' Club. Burbank, Ca. Email: [email protected] for more i nforrnation. June 29-July 4, 2008. World Archaeological Council 6 wi ll meet in Dublin. Ireland film;LL N ovember 7- 10, 2007. The 2007 'Jeering of the American www. world a rc haeologica Icon gress.org/si rc/wac6. ph p Society for Ethnohistory. Hosting this evenr is the Department ofAnrhropology at the University onulsa and October 2008. The Grear Basin Anthropological the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. http://erhnohisrorv.org/ Conference wi ll be held in Portland, Oregon. For sections/meeci n gs/200 7Lin dex. h cm I. information conrracc: Or. Virginia Butler, Program Chair- [email protected]. Call for papers and N ovembe r 28- December 2, 2007 - t06'h Annual American information wi ll appear in Spring 2008. Anthropological Association ]\Jeering. MarriocrWardman Park I lore I, V\lashingron. DC. lurp://www.aaanq.org/mtg!>/ November 19-23, 2008. AAA Annual Meeting. San mcgs.html. Francisco Hi Icon and 'Towers. San Francisco, Ca. 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