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102 <strong>Society</strong> <strong>for</strong> Cali<strong>for</strong>nia <strong>Archaeology</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Meeting</strong> <strong>2010</strong><br />

ROTH, Barbara J.<br />

University of Nevada, Las Vegas<br />

THOMAS, Tiffany<br />

University of Nevada, Las Vegas<br />

Landscapes and Land Use Along Soda Playa<br />

• Symposium 4 (De Anza North); Thursday, 3:30 PM<br />

This Paper examines land use along the western shore of Soda Playa in the Mojave Desert using<br />

data from recent excavations conducted at the Mojave Delta Site, a Ceramic period processing<br />

site located near the point where the Mojave River enters Soda Playa and survey data on Ceramic<br />

period occupations along the lakeshore. We explore how Ceramic period occupants in the area<br />

use the landscape, documenting mobility strategies that incorporated a number of locales<br />

including springs, foothills, and dunes. We then discuss the implications of taking a landscape<br />

approach <strong>for</strong> interpreting prehistoric land use in this portion of the Mojave Desert.<br />

ROTH, Morgan<br />

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo<br />

see CERLES, Erica L.<br />

RUMOLD, Claudia<br />

University of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, Santa Barbara<br />

see EERKENS, ]elmer<br />

RUSTON, Rachel<br />

Cali<strong>for</strong>nia State Parks<br />

see SMITH, Erin M.<br />

RYAN, Christopher<br />

Vandenberg AFB<br />

Schumacher's Excavations on the Central Coast <strong>for</strong> the Smithsonian Institution, 1875<br />

• Symposium 5 (Victoria South); Friday, 8:00 AM<br />

The American centennial was celebrated, in part, during an international exhibition in<br />

Philadelphia in 1876. To create the exhibit of the American Indian, the Smithsonian's Assistant<br />

Secretary, Spencer Baird, directed field agents to collect "objects illustrating the habits, customs,<br />

peculiarities and general condition of the various tribes, and also…such relics of their<br />

predecessors as may be procurable." Paul Schumacher collected artifacts <strong>for</strong> Baird on the<br />

Central Coast of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, including Vandenberg AFB. These collections were photographed<br />

during a recent visit to the National Anthropological Archives.<br />

SAMPSON, Michael<br />

Cali<strong>for</strong>nia State Parks<br />

Hole-Punched Molluscan Shells at W-150, San Diego County<br />

• Symposium 1 (La Sierra); Thursday, 1:20 PM<br />

Molluscan shells, principally scallop, manifesting a single hole are occasionally found at coastal<br />

sites. It has been suggested they were worn as decoration in dances or other purposes. One site,<br />

W-150 (CA-SDI-5017), has an unusually large assemblage of such shells, and they show a<br />

variety of shell sizes and hole shapes. These holes were not made by the octopus or other marine

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