Society for California Archaeology 2010 Annual Meeting

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of thousands of years ago, reflecting trade, travel, resource procurement and the sacred. These
trails are part of an even larger Native Interstate network.
MCCORMICK, H. Jill
Cocopah Indian Tribe
Renewable Energy and Non-Renewable Resources: A Tribal Cultural Resources
Perspective for Evaluating the Impacts of Renewable Energy Projects
• Symposium 3 (De Anza South); Thursday, 4:00 PM
The pace of new renewable energy projects is escalating beyond our ability to effectively assess
their impacts on cultural and environmental resources. These resources are non-renewable to
Native American tribes and hold links to places of importance to their culture. Tribal cultural
resources departments are asked to assess these projects on a project by project basis, not taking
into account the larger overall landscape issues these projects pose for protection of cultural
resources. This paper will discuss the impacts of these projects from the tribal CRM perspective
and how mitigation of impacts to cultural resources are not being adequately addressed.
MCCOY, Cara
Chemehuevi Cultural Center; Kaibab Paiute; Colorado River Indian Tribes
see LEIVAS, Matthew
MCKIM, Rebecca
Applied EarthWorks, Inc.
Pinniped Hunting Revisited: The Evidence from Vandenberg AFB
• Symposium 5 (Victoria South); Friday, 10:45 AM
Significant controversy exists on the nature and scope of prehistoric sea mammal exploitation
along the California coast. Some researchers argue that pinnipeds were overhunted late in
prehistory; others propose that sea mammal populations were purposely conserved and managed.
This study brings to bear data from 34 dated components at nine distinct sites on Vandenberg
AFB to untangle this issue. Findings suggest that species distributions in archaeological sites on
Vandenberg are largely determined by pinniped behavioral traits rather than the purported effects
of human predation or management.
MENIKETTI, Marco
San Jose State University
Cailfornia Maritime Community Heritage Project
• Symposium 11 (Citrus Heritage); Friday, 2:00 PM
California’s maritime communities and heritage are vanishing. Development is erasing traces of
this vital cultural resources base. California was home to multiple ethnically diverse and
marginalized maritime communities who were the backbone of regional and statewide
development. A statewide, sustainable, archaeological cultural resource inventory of the remnant
historic maritime communities, industries, and sites emphasizing the contributions of
California’s diverse ethnic groups is being initiated to establish a comprehensive database for
researching critical questions of historical development and participation by minorities during
California’s evolution as premier gateway to the pacific.