Society for California Archaeology 2010 Annual Meeting

Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting 2010 43
ARKUSH, Brooke
Weber State University
Native Responses to European Intrusion: Cultural Persistence and Agency Among Mission
Neophytes in Spanish Colonial Northern California
• Poster Session 3 (Ben H. Lewis Hall North); Friday, 10:30 - 11:45 AM
Over the last 20 years or so, various archaeological and ethnohistorical investigation of Spanish
missions in northern California have documented aspects of cultural continuity among native
people who relocated to these settlements, converted to Catholicism, and became the primary
workforce of Spain's northernmost New World colonies. This poster presents data from five
northern California Spanish mission (San Francisco, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Jose, and San
Juan Bautista) to illustrate how many Ohlone, Yokuts, and Miwok neophytes continued to
practice aspects of traditional culture well into the early 19th century.
ARMSTONG, Beth
CASSP
• Symposium 10 (Arlington); 1:30 - 4:00 PM
Panelist
ARNOLD, Jeanne E.
University of California, Los Angeles
Important Late Bead-Making Innovations on the Channel Islands
• Symposium 1 (La Sierra); Thursday, 1:22 PM
Specialized Island Chumash craftspersons produced money beads and decorative beads by the
hundreds of thousands for much of southern California over the course of several centuries (AD
1100 to 1819). These same specialists were responsible for important manufacturing innovations
during the last decades of the bead-making craft (1770-1819). Islanders increasingly employed
European iron needles to drill olivella wall beads and red abalone beads as chert microdrills
dropped out of use, and I report here on the scale of these changes and further uses of needledrilling
technology in the manufacture of several rare bead types.
ARTER, Susan
San Diego Natural History Museum
ROEDER, Mark
San Diego Natural History Museum
Big Birds, Frogs, Sea Otters, and Lots of Wrasses: Vertebrate Remains Spanning 8,900
Years of Occupation at the Spindrift Village Site in La Jolla, California
• General Session 5 (Victoria South); Friday, 1:00 PM
Recent excavations at the Spindrift Site have yielded a tremendous diversity of birds, fish,
mammals, reptiles, and amphibians---65 species identified so far. Of these, 2 birds, 2 marine
mammals, and 1 amphibian have been extirpated locally. At least 50% of identifiable fish are of
the family Labridae (wrasses): sheephead, senorita and rock wrass. This diversity reflects
prehistoric peoples' varied subsistence strategies and adaptations to environmental changes along
the San Diego coastline throughout the Holocene. Faunal identifications also provide baseline
data on coastal biodiversity and perspective on the effects of human pressures on it.