Author: Thomas L. JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Final Report of Archaeological Investigations at the River Glen Site (CA-Nap-261)
Author: Thomas L. JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Report of Archaeological Investigations at the River Glen Site (CA-NAP-261), Napa County, California
Author: Thomas L. JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Archaeological investigations completed at site CA-NAP-261, located on the west bank of the Napa River to the north of the City of Napa have produced evidence of occupation at the site from perhaps as early as 3000 years B.P. and lasting, intermittently, until possibly as late as the early A.D. 1800's. The site has sustained considerable disturbance, induced both by man and by natural agents, especially rodently. Two radiocarbon age determinations were obtained to date the base of the occupational layer. Sample I-10,046 yielded a date of 2505+95 years B.P. (555 B.C.) and sample I-10,047 yielded an age of 1965+170 years B.P. (15 B.C.). Sample I-10,046 was collected from the 70-80 centimeter level of the site, while sample I-10,047 was obtained at the 90-100 centimeter level. One hundred and fifteen (115) obsidian hydration samples were prepared which support the dates for the site suggested by the carbon samples. Thus, it is thought that major occupation at the site occurred between 1800 and 2800 years B.P. While some indication of a later occupational component at the site is indicated, it has apparently been destroyed. Artifactual remains from the site are sparse, but when combined with the constituent materials from the midden, a apicture emerges of an aboriginal population which intensively exploited a highly localized resource base.
California and Great Basin Olivella Shell Bead Guide
Author: Randall T MillikenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131543251X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Olivella shell beads are ubiquitous at Central California Indian sites and were traded far inland by the local inhabitants. Their distinctive patterns of manufacture provide archaeologists with important chronological, morphological, and distributional information. This guide—authored by a professional artifact replicator and an archaeological expert on shell bead typology-- offers a well developed 16-category typology, including the descriptive, temporal, and metric characteristics of each style, illustrated with almost 200 color photographs. Spiral bound to facilitate field and laboratory work, it is an essential tool for conducting archaeology in the American west. Sponsored by the Society for California Archaeology and Pacific Legacy, Inc.
Government Reports Announcements & Index
Author: Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas
Author: Robin GrossingerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520269101
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Annotation How has California's landscape changed? What did now-familiar places look like during prior centuries? This book explores these questions by taking readers on a dazzling visual tour of Napa Valley from the early 1800s onward - a forgotten land of brilliant wildflower fields, lush wetlands, and grand oak savannas.
Napa River
Author: Colonial Worlds, Indigenous Practices
Author: Stephen Walter SillimanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Technical Abstract Bulletin
Author: Lost Laborers in Colonial California
Author: Stephen W. SillimanPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816528042
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Native Americans who populated the various ranchos of Mexican California as laborers are people frequently lost to history. The "rancho period" was a critical time for California Indians, as many were drawn into labor pools for the flourishing ranchos following the 1834 dismantlement of the mission system, but they are practically absent from the documentary record and from popular histories. This study focuses on Rancho Petaluma north of San Francisco Bay, a large livestock, agricultural, and manufacturing operation on which several hundredÑperhaps as many as two thousandÑNative Americans worked as field hands, cowboys, artisans, cooks, and servants. One of the largest ranchos in the region, it was owned from 1834 to 1857 by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, one of the most prominent political figures of Mexican California. While historians have studied Vallejo, few have considered the Native Americans he controlled, so we know little of what their lives were like or how they adjusted to the colonial labor regime. Because VallejoÕs Petaluma Adobe is now a state historic park and one of the most well-protected rancho sites in California, this site offers unparalleled opportunities to investigate nineteenth-century rancho life via archaeology. Using the Vallejo rancho as a case study, Stephen Silliman examines this California rancho with a particular eye toward Native American participation. Through the archaeological recordÑtools and implements, containers, beads, bone and shell artifacts, food remainsÑhe reconstructs the daily practices of Native peoples at Rancho Petaluma and the labor relations that structured indigenous participation in and experience of rancho life. This research enables him to expose the multi-ethnic nature of colonialism, counterbalancing popular misconceptions of Native Americans as either non-participants in the ranchos or passive workers with little to contribute to history. Lost Laborers in Colonial California draws on archaeological data, material studies, and archival research, and meshes them with theoretical issues of labor, gender, and social practice to examine not only how colonial worlds controlled indigenous peoples and practices but also how Native Americans lived through and often resisted those impositions. The book fills a gap in the regional archaeological and historical literature as it makes a unique contribution to colonial and contact-period studies in the Spanish/Mexican borderlands and beyond.
San Francisco Bay Archaeology
Author: Polly McW. BickelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alameda County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description