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Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting 2010 59 DARKO, Emily Sonoma State University There and Back Again: An Artifact Tale • General Session 4 (Citrus Heritage); Friday, 8:00 AM As archaeological paradigms shift, so does our perception and analysis of material culture. While they sit curated on a shelf, artifact collections travel on an intangible journey through changes in archaeological paradigms. When archaeologists return to artifacts recovered under earlier paradigms, they may find that the artifacts no longer hold the same meaning. Through the case study of a Southern Pomo site, CA-SON-882, this project argues that artifact collections need to be more thoroughly documented and continually re-evaluated because they are potentially essential contributors to current archaeological theory. DAVIDSON, Elizabeth Laguna Mountain Environmental DITTMER, Frank Laguna Mountiain Environmental Ceramic Vessel Form and Function at the Spindrift Site in La Jolla, California • General Session 5 (Victoria South); Friday, 1:30 PM Pottery morphology can be an indication of vessel function and therefore can help determine subsistence patterns at a site. Rim sherds collected at the Spindrift Site in La Jolla were analyzed to determine the diversity and quantity of vessel types being utilized over time. By calculating rim curvature and rim diameter vessel shape and type were determined. A discussion of the types and function of ceramic vessels found at the Spindrift site is the focus of this presentation. DAVIS, Troy W. Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon See AINIS, Amira DEBRER, Christian University of California, Los Angeles see GLEESON, Molly DEMPSEY, Patrick Avocationalist Julian Steward Erred: The Anasazi Connection • General Session 3 (Arlington); Friday, 9:00 AM In 1933 Harrington completely excavated a Virgin Anasazi site at lost city Nevada just 50 miles south of my split sugar pot site and recovered a split Anasazi pot; half in one room and the other half found burned with a burial in a different room. Harrington’s site is but 50 miles southwest of my sugar pot site where that pot was also split vertically and found with a possible burial. I show that partial vessels (stone and ceramic) were not uncommon in California coastal sites historically and prehistorically. Then show that this behavior is continued in desert sites today.
60 Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting 2010 DEMPSEY, Patrick Avocationalist Julian Steward Erred: the Rosetta Stone Site • General Session 3 (Arlington); Friday, 9:30 AM I report a transitional ca 1900 desert religious site comprised of both historic and prehistoric artifact fragments. A white metate with a piece missing; a fragment of a black metate; half an obsidian pyroclast; half of a precisely cleaved chalcedony biface; two sun-purpled bottle frags; an 1800s medicine bottle neck; a flat bottle base; a precisely cleaved preserves jar cap; a wine bottle base; a greenish bottle shoulder. Finally exactly half a 19th century earthenware sugar pot split vertically was found near a small dirt mound covered with stones Is it a child's grave or just a clump of stones? DEOLIVEIRA, Lauren California State University, Channel Islands CLEVELAND, Ryland California State University, Channel Islands KUIKEN, Garrett California State University, Channel Islands TUSI , Danielle California State University, Channel Islands Preliminary Analysis of CA-VEN-167 • Symposium 6 (La Sierra); Friday, 10:00 AM This is a preliminary analysis of CA-VEN-167. VEN-167 is located in Ventura County on an alluvial fan adjacent to the Oxnard Plain. The only previous work at this site is from 1965 and based on surface collection. This presentation is the first to discuss cultural remains from excavation. DEPPE, Darlene Moorpark College see KINKELLA, Andrew DES LAURIERS, M. R. Department of Anthropology, CSU Northridge WAY Earlier than We Thought.... and Somewhere Else • Symposium 1 (La Sierra); Thursday, 1:00 PM Circular Shell fishhooks have been thought to have been developed sometime around 3000 BP along the Alta California coast. This would be a relatively late "development" compared with the existence of Archaic/Pre-Ceramic shell fishhooks along the Pacific Coast of South America by at least the Middle Holocene. New discoveries and dating from two archaeological sites on Isla Cedros, Baja California, Mexico push the existence of shell fishhooks back to at least 9500 rcybp [~11000 CYBP], if not earlier. This early context, confirmed by multiple examples from multiple excavation units at two different sites displaying high resolution paleosurfacecontaining stratigraphy, pushes shell fishhook technology back to the early phases of coastal settlement of the Americas, with implications for explanatory models which implicate intensification as a driving force behind their development and adoption.
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