Society for California Archaeology 2010 Annual Meeting

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The 2008 season of excavations conducted by the archaeological field class at California State
University, Bakersfield, testing focused along the northern periphery of the Bead Hill Site (CA-
KER-450) which is located in the southern San Joaquin Valley. CSUB has been conducting
research at CA-KER-450 for more than decade, and the recent preliminary results of the various
analyses of this past season are largely consistent with earlier research, although some interesting
trends have become apparent as a result of the current study.
BASGALL, Mark E.
California State University, Sacramento
Explaining Variability in Early Archaeological Assemblages of China Lake and the
Greater Mojave Desert
• Symposium 9 (De Anza North); Friday, 3:15 PM
The Pleistocene Lake China Basin and adjacent lowlands preserve some of the richest records of
terminal Pleistocene-early Holocene human occupation in the southwestern Great Basin.
Similar, if more limited, evidence of early settlement has been documented in other sectors of the
Mojave Desert. Differences in the archaeology of these scattered localities prompt intriguing
questions regarding variation in the content and density of local sites/assemblages, the nature of
early subsistence-settlement systems, and how changing ecological parameters influenced
population distributions during this era.
BEAN, Lowell
• Symposium 13 (La Sierra); Saturday, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Discussant
BEASLEY, Melanie
University of California,San Diego
What Can Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes do for Baja California?
• Symposium 1 (La Sierra); Thursday, 1:16 PM
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis has provided valuable data for dietary reconstruction
of resource staples of ancient populations. Dietary resources in a region must have unique
signatures to yield results that have interpretive value for addressing questions of temporal
change or introduction of new resources. This presentation will be a first look at the stable
isotope signatures of food resources in Baja California to assess potential differences between
resources of the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California. Stable isotope analysis is expected to
add to the archaeological knowledge with regard to diet resources, trade networks and influences
from colonizers in Baja California.
BEASLEY, Melanie
University of California, San Diego
BARTELINK, Eric
California State University, Chico
LEVENTHAL, Alan
San Jose State University
CAMBRA, Rosemary
Muweka Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area