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Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting 2010 115 WELLS, Helen Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Universtiy of California, Los Angeles see CLEWLOW, William WERDEN, Elizabeth University of California, Los Angeles see GLEESON, Molly WEST, Crystal Inyo National Forest The "Ridge Place": Prehistoric Use of Ridgelines along the Sierra Escarpment above the Owens Valley • General Session 3 (Arlington); Friday, 10:15 AM Recent research and surveys has led to new information about prehistoric use of the steep ridgelines of the eastern Sierra Nevada on the Inyo National Forest. The discovery of a new site along a narrow ridgeline may be the ethnographic village site that Julian Steward refers to as the “Ridge Place” (1938). Sparse information is available from ethnographic records and previous surveys about the use of this rugged terrain. This paper discusses new findings about prehistoric habitation sites located along precipitous ridgelines on the Sierra Escarpment and formulates ideas about the function and purpose of these sites. WHELAN, Carly University of California, Davis Modeling Hunter-Gatherer Mobility Strategies • Organized Poster Session 1 (Ben H. Lewis Hall North); Thursday, 2:30 - 4:45 PM Optimal foraging theory predicts that hunter-gatherers will use the combination of logistical and residential mobility that allows them to optimally exploit the resources of their environment. There are costs and benefits associated with logistical and residential mobility that must be balanced in any subsistence-settlement system. I present a model designed to predict when a hunter-gatherer group should change its mobility strategy in order to maintain optimal foraging efficiency. This model can be used to explain changes in subsistence-settlement patterns documented in the archaeological record. WHELAN, Carly University of California, Davis Prehistoric Subsistence-Settlement Patterns of the West-Central Sierra Nevada Foothills • Symposium 1 (La Sierra); Thursday, 1:54 PM The Sierra Nevada was one of the last regions of California to experience systematic archaeological excavation and remains one of the most poorly understood, particularly the region’s western foothills. Though subsistence-settlement patterns have been of longstanding interest to archaeologists working in the area, few systematic studies of prehistoric subsistence change or diachronic change in land use have been carried out. I have recently excavated several sites in the west-central Sierra Nevada foothills in order to clarify the prehistoric subsistence-
116 Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting 2010 settlement patterns of the region and determine how they have changed over the course of the last several thousand years. WHITAKER, Adrian Far Western Anthropological Research Group Giving a Presentation to School Children for Dummies • Symposium 1 (La Sierra), Thursday, 1:46 PM In light of recent efforts by the SCA to expand participation in Archaeology Month, I will make an attempt to provide you with everything you need to know to go into a classroom and talk about archaeology to kids. If nothing else, I'll hope to guilt people into participating in Archaeology Month. WHITAKER, Adrian Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc. ROSENTHAL, Jefferey BRANDY, Paul Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc. Deer, Deer, Elk. Deer, Deer, Pronghorn: Modeling Suitability of Artiodactyl Habitat in California • Organized Poster Session 1 (Ben H. Lewis Hall North); Thursday, 2:30 - 4:45 PM Using modern ecological data, we model the relative suitabilities of elk, deer, pronghorn, and mountain sheep habitat in California. We compare these predictions with a database of faunal assemblages from throughout Central and Southeastern California. We find that while ecology dictates the relative abundance of artiodactyls to one another in some contexts, cultural constraints are also important in shaping hunting decisions. WHITBY, Wendy University of Central Lancashire Chumash Cache Caves: A New Perspective on the Study of Resistance and Acculturation in Colonial California • General Session 5 (Victoria South); Friday, 2:30 PM Cache caves in the Santa Barbara backcountry contain many items of Chumash material culture, including exceptionally preserved organic materials, and evidence suggests that at least some of this material dates to the historic period. Examples of these objects are basketry, feather bands and 'witch-sticks'; many of the objects seem to have had a ritual or ceremonial purpose. This paper will examine how the study of these caves provides a novel way to look at acculturation, and/or resistance processes, taking place in south-central California during the turbulent colonial period. WHITLEY, David S. ASM Affiliates, Inc. VML Dating and the Coso Petroglyph Chronology • Symposium 9 (De Anza North); Friday, 2:00 PM Varnish Microlamination Dating, recently extended into the Holocene through blind-testing against cosmogenic dating, was applied to the Coso petroglyphs. The goal was to re-evaluate the
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