Society for California Archaeology 2010 Annual Meeting

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KUIKEN, Garrett
California State University, Channel Islands
see DEOLIVEIRA, Lauren
KURI, Samanth J.
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
see CERLES, Erica L.
LA PIERRE, Kish
California State University, Bakersfield
Rock Alignments, Cairns, and Artifact Caches at the Mirror Point Site (CA-SBR-12134/H),
East Searles Lake in the Western Mojave Desert, San Bernardino
County, CA
• Symposium 9 (De Anza North); Friday, 1:30 PM
The intent of this research was to investigate prehistoric architecture, thus rock features (and
associated artifacts), of the western Mojave Desert and even more specifically at the Mirror Point
Site (CA-SBR-12134/H). Over 100 rock alignments and cairns were discovered and recorded at
this site. In addition, many of these rock features contained artifact caches. Several types of
analyses were conducted on data collected and this paper presents the results and offers some
insight regarding site function.
LA ROSE, Douglas Joseph
Laguna Mountain Environmental. Inc
Hooked on Fishing: Evidence for Fishhook Manufacture and Use at the Spindrift Site in La
Jolla, California
• General Session 5 (Victoria South); Friday, 2:00 PM
Debates surrounding the role of fishing along the southern California coast have involved the
classifications of subsistence patterns. Fishhooks are known to have been an important
technology along California’s central coast and the Channel Islands, while very few fishhooks
have been identified in the San Diego area. This study examines the presence of several fishhook
blanks and fishhook fragments found at the Spindrift Site in La Jolla, California. A discussion of
the quantities and types of fish bones and a discussion of hunter-gatherer-fisher groups is held
within the prehistoric regional economic system of southern California.
LANGE, Fredrick
LSA Associates, Inc./UC Santa Barbara
Applying the Interaction Sphere Concept to Ancient Lake Cahuilla
• Symposium 3 (De Anza South); Thursday, 3:45 PM
Large-scale cultural resources inventories related to alternate energy projects in Riverside and
Imperial Counties repeatedly focus directly or indirectly on the former roles of Ancient Lake
Cahuilla, and the present-day Salton Sea, as centers of regional patterns of prehistoric human
behavior. The simplest dynamic model for past human behavior is that when the lake filled up,
populations descended to the shoreline and when the lake dried up, these populations retreated to
the surrounding mountains. Obviously the regional model is more complex and the interaction
sphere seems the most adequate model for integrating multiple dynamic natural and cultural
variables.