http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/arf/rss Recent eScholarship items from Archaeological Research Facility Sat, 16 May 2026 20:36:37 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vt6w05j In 2007 a group of&nbsp;investigators accompanied a llama caravan transporting salt from the Cotahuasi Valley in Arequipa, Peru to Calcauso in Apurimac, Peru approximately 100 km to the north. They completed the round-trip journey and the voyage was logged using a GNSS unit attached to one of the llamas. These data are shared here. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vt6w05j Thu, 5 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tripcevich, Nicholas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rq5p9pp Policy requiring consent from tribes for the publication of texts and cultural knowledge&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rq5p9pp Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Archaeological Research Facility https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47n4c8nv In the fall of 2022 we held a graduate seminar foregrounding the articulation of social science research with restorative justice and contemporary community struggles for self-determination, with a particular emphasis on community-accountable scholarship. This poster presents the results of projects committed to community authority, which represent new kinds of risks and rewards for both sides, and directly impacts the types of research questions addressed in their partnered project deliverables. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47n4c8nv Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Laluk, Nicholas C. Sunseri, Jun Bertone, Tanya Limoges, Justin Medina, Shelby Mayorga-Curson, Louis Strait, Madeleine https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vb1790z This geochemistry report is a dynamic notebook hosted on Github at https://github.com/arf-berkeley/obsidian-source-anilloThe Anillo obsidian source lies to the north of the Cotahuasi Canyon in southern Peru. It is geochemically distinct from the better known Alca obsidian south on the south side of the Cotahuasi valley. This report shares the geochemical results of analysis with a Bruker Tracer 5g XRF. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vb1790z Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tripcevich, Nicholas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qm312tg IAOS Bulletin 63 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qm312tg Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9m00w01d IAOS Bulletin 72 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9m00w01d Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8vj420s5 IAOS Bulletin 71 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8vj420s5 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xv3x2rk IAOS Bulletin 74 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xv3x2rk Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mx1x162 IAOS Bulletin 69 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mx1x162 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65t623cv IAOS Bulletin 73 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65t623cv Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55g391h2 IAOS Bulletin 64 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55g391h2 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4v75c79q IAOS Bulletin 70 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4v75c79q Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kq4r6ng IAOS Bulletin 68 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kq4r6ng Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pw2d9wj IAOS Bulletin 65 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pw2d9wj Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pn4172m IAOS Bulletin 62 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pn4172m Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1cb4j6c7 IAOS Bulletin 67 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1cb4j6c7 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19j587n3 IAOS Bulletin 66 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19j587n3 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/15d712mb IAOS Bulletin 61 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/15d712mb Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dillian, Carolyn D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qh1h652 A select collection of Andean roots and stems were systematically analyzed and imaged in order to form a reference collection that could aid in the identification of preserved parenchymatous tissue recovered in a macrobotanical form through archaeological investigations. This experimental study looked at various roots and stems that were likely significant in ancient Latin American diets in order to try to identify any diagnostic morphological features that may exist. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qh1h652 Mon, 6 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Slotten, Venicia Hastorf, Christine Chiou, Katie https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rb3t6d7 <p>This volume presents the results of a collaborative eco-archaeological project that examines evidence for Indigenous landscape and seascape stewardship practices over 7000 years on the Central California coast. The goal of this work is to develop a better understanding of practices employed by local tribes to enhance the diversity, productivity, and sustainability of culturally important plants and animals in tribal lands and waters. The centerpiece of the project is the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band (AMTB), whose members are Indigenous to the area and descend from survivors of the historic Franciscan mission’s Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista.&nbsp;</p><p>They are working on developing a better understanding of their ancestral stewardship activities that may serve as a historical baseline for revitalizing Indigenous practices on the Central California coast today.&nbsp;</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rb3t6d7 Tue, 6 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sj6z9cq Archaeobotanical Sample Processing, Taraco Archaeological Project https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sj6z9cq Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 McKenzie, Emily https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8501k2q9 Nemea, Sanctuary of Zeus Excavations at 100 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8501k2q9 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Shelton, Kim https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0567g158 City life at Palenque: 2023 season https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0567g158 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Joyce, Rosemary A. Johnson, Lisa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6tf7c79b 89. Attribute Guidelines for Chenopodium Identification https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6tf7c79b Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Bruno, Maria C McKenzie, Emily R https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sr0r14r 90. Pearsall Ecuadorian Comparative Wood Reference Collection: Scanning Electron Micrographs of Charred Samples (Part 2)&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sr0r14r Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Slotten, Venicia Banducci, Anthony Brockland, Julia Kimball, Tristan Lee, Allison Schmuck, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wp4q4r0 91. Microscope Photography, Measurement and Image Stacking https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wp4q4r0 Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 McKenzie, Milly https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gz2c29m 90. Pearsall Ecuadorian Comparative Wood Reference Collection: Scanning Electron Micrographs of Charred Samples (Part 1) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gz2c29m Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Slotten, Venicia Banducci, Anthony Brockland, Julia Kimball, Tristan Lee, Allison Schmuck, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mv5t2vf Preliminary Excavations of Secondary burials in San Juan, Puerto Rico https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mv5t2vf Wed, 1 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Marrero-Rosado, José L. Agarwal, Sabrina C. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50d604s3 This report presents an experiment in which four starch sampling methods are compared in order to identify the most successful and effective technique for starch extraction from large groundstone and milling features in the field. Testing archaeological specimens in situ is necessary when the artifact is too large or cumbersome to bring back to a laboratory. In addition, preliminary testing in the field allows researchers to obtain quick results thatprovides guidance for ongoing excavation and sampling methods. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50d604s3 Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Berghausen, Chloe Dresser-Kluchman, Elizabeth Fernandez-Perez, Natasha A. Shahat, Amr Slotten, Venicia Apodaca, Alec J. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vb5451s FoodStore: Food storage in the late Fifth, Fourth and Third millennia BC in the Northern Fertile Crescent https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vb5451s Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Tumolo, Valentina https://escholarship.org/uc/item/75c689n2 <p>This volume results from the 2021 International Obsidian Conference (IOC), a virtual symposium held in the spring of 2021. Originally scheduled as an in-person event at the University of California, Berkeley, the conference transitioned to a virtual venue due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. More than 70 participants from a wide range of time zones stayed up into the wee hours of the night to hear the presentations and engage with others who share a passion for obsidian. Obsidian studies are a robust facet of archaeology, and this volume highlights a diverse range of research themes. Seven chapters in this volume feature studies from across the globe, organized broadly by region, including Europe, Africa, Central America, and South America. A separate section with an additional two chapters presents methodological developments in the field.The digital version is linked to 28 data files that are distributed as Supplementary Materials.</p><p>Contains&nbsp;contributions by M.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/75c689n2 Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30c414w4 Tobler's Walking Model data converted to a Vertical Factor Table for use in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst distance functions. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30c414w4 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tripcevich, Nicholas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zg314wb Census of Non-Reservation California Indians, 1905-1906 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zg314wb Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Kelsey, C. E. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6fg3t56r Collected Documents on the Causes And Events in the Bloody Island Massacre Of 1850 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6fg3t56r Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dg0c885 The Archaeology of Barrel Springs Site (Nv-Pe-104), Pershing County, Nevada https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dg0c885 Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Cowan, Richard A. Thomas, David H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rc0k8cg Ethnographic Observations on the Coast Miwok and Pomo by Contre-Admiral F. P. Von Wrangell and P. Kostromitonov of the Russian Colony Ross, 1839 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rc0k8cg Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3t36h3vm This volume presents preliminary findings from archaeological fieldwork undertaken by three different institutionsin Kahikinui District on Maui. The contributors agreed last year that one aim of our work should be to prepare nontechnicalreports for public distribution in Hawai'i. In discussing the idea of such a volume, Patrick Kirch and I agreed that while thepublic in Hawai'i often is aware of archaeological fieldwork being conducted, all too rarely do they get a timely summary ofinitial findings. Often, results only become available some years later in highly technical reports. Easy-to-read summariesare rarely available. It seemed to us that providing such a summary of the Kahikinui research would be of considerableinterest to the public. After all, it is the public-the taxpayer-who ultimately has paid for much (though not all) of thisarchaeology, be it through national granting agencies, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, state university programs,or the State of Hawai'i... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3t36h3vm Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2x44k0nd Clinton Hart Merriam, who signed his name C. Hart Merriam was a naturalist who spent part of his professional life studying California Indians. He worked assiduously with native informants. For Merriam's background, which was that of a biologist and not ananthropologist, the reader is referred to a following section written by Alfred L. Kroeber, "C. Hart Merriam as Anthropologist." Although Merriam had a formal tie with the Smithsonian Institution which held a bequest known as the E.H. Harriman Fund, he was not a member of the Smithsonian staff. He had, in brief, an institutional connection, but he did not work under the direction of that institution. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2x44k0nd Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Merriam, Clinton Hart https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1wn865f5 Three specific objectives were outlined in our Scope of Work: (1) A reconnaissance survey of several selected environmental zones within the Park (e.g., the wet valleys, the colluvial and talus slopes inland of the peninsula, and the peninsula itself), in order to gain an overview of the kinds and distributions of major archaeological features. (2) Detailed plane table mapping and architectural recording of selected sites, including several known, but currently un-documented heiau and associated features. (3) Cleaning and re-recording of the test&nbsp;excavations conducted by Richard Pearson in 1966-67 in the Kaupikiawa lava tube complex in Kalawao (Site 312), which had produced an early 14C age determination. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1wn865f5 Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Kirch, Patrick V. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vs669ct Review and Discussion of Great Basin Projectile Points https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vs669ct Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Hester, Thomas R Heizer, Robert F. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14s6t2cw Reprints of Various Papers on California Archaeology, Ethnology and Indian History https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14s6t2cw Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Merriam, C. Hart Waterman, T. T. Redding, Geo. H. H. Warner, J. J. Davis, Emily Kroeber, A. L. Powers, Stephern Washington, F. B. Redding, B. B. Spencer, D. L. Kibbe, Wm. C. Baele, E. F. McKee, John Ames, John G. Schumacher, Paul Yarrow, H. C. Yates, Lorenzo G. Merriam, John C. Hudson, A. S. Ransom, Leander https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0x85t0hm <p>Clinton Hart Merriam, who signed his name C. Hart Merriam was a naturalist who spent part of his professional life studying California Indians. He worked assiduously with native informants. For Merriam's background, which was that of a biologist and not ananthropologist, the reader is referred to a following section written by Alfred L. Kroeber, "C. Hart Merriam as Anthropologist." Although Merriam had a formal tie with the Smithsonian Institution which held a bequest known as the E.H. Harriman Fund, he was not a member of the Smithsonian staff. He had, in brief, an institutional connection, but he did not work under the direction of that institution.</p><p>Merriam's lists are published here exactly as he recorded them. No changes have been made in conformity with the agreement made with his heirs when the Merriam Collection was accepted by the Department of Anthropology at Berkeley. Merriam's phonetic system can be found at the end of this section.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0x85t0hm Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Merriam, Clinton Hart https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ss641nh Costanoan Internal Relationships https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ss641nh Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Levy, Richard L. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6d70v74h The Aboriginal Population of the Great Basin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6d70v74h Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Kennedy, K. A. R https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5m15895j Papers on California Archaeology: 50 - 62 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5m15895j Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Baumhoff, M A Pilling, A R Elsasser, A B Heizer, R F Treganza, A E Valdivia, L L Bennyhoff, J A Contreras, E Merriam, C H Yates, L G https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dz90451 Papers on California Archaeology: 47 - 49 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dz90451 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Balfet, Helene J, Francis Johnston, Patricia H Cook, S F https://escholarship.org/uc/item/450514g0 An Introduction to Yana Archaeology&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/450514g0 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Baumhoff, M A https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qs664h9 A Comparative Analysis of Prehistoric Skeletal Remains from the Lower Sacramento Valley https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qs664h9 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Newman, Russell W https://escholarship.org/uc/item/35c1m2wm Part 1: Salvage Archaeology in the Trinity Reservoir Area, Northern California&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Part 2: The Lagomarsino Petroglyph Group (Site 26-St-1) Near Virginia City, Nevada https://escholarship.org/uc/item/35c1m2wm Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Treganza, A E Heizer, R F Elsasser, A B https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2nn9j4cq Index to the Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, Number 1-30 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2nn9j4cq Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Antevs, Ernst Avery, B P Baumhoff, Martin A Beardsley, Richard K Bennyhoff, J A Dubois, J. M. F Bowen, Alley Brainerd, George W Cessac, Leon de Cook, Sherburne F Ehleben, E T Ellis, H Holmes Elsasser, Albert B Gifford, E W Goldschmidt, Walter Gonsalves, William C Greengo, Robert E Grosscup, Gordon L Hamy, E Harner, Michael J Harradine, Frank Heizer, Nancy E Heizer, Robert F Hrdlicka, Ales Kroeber, Alfred L Lathrap, Donald Lee, S L Loud, LLowellyn L McCown, T D Meighan, Clement W Mills, John E Riddell, F A Riddell, Harry S Robinson, Eugene Sample, L L Smith, C E Squier, Robert J Storie, R E Tarr, W A Taylor, Edith S Treganza, Adan E Wallace, William J Weymouth, W D Willis, Bailey https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10t3k11j Salvage Archaeology in the Trinity Reservoir Area Northern California - Field Season 1958&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10t3k11j Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Treganza, Adan E https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w4169s4 Papers on California Archaeology, 32 - 33 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w4169s4 Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Meighan, Clement W Baumhoff, M A https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hb611mh Papers on California Archaeology: 30 - 31 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hb611mh Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Meighan, Clement W Gonsalves, William C https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98f4k1qz Papers on California Archaeology: 6-9 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98f4k1qz Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Heizer, Robert F Lathrap, Donald W Meighan, Clement W https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r3737s7 Archaeological Investigations in the Farmington Reservoir Area, Stanislaus County, California&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r3737s7 Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Treganza, Adan E https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h33c6f8 Papers in California Archaeology 17-18 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h33c6f8 Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Heizer, Robert F Wallace, William J Taylor, Edith S https://escholarship.org/uc/item/38x6g6jp The main controlling factor of physical conditions and processes,and of distribution and spread of plants and animals, is climate and itschanges. Low temperature and, in some regions, excessive snowfall havecaused extensive glaciations. The withdrawal of water to form the icesheets lowered the oceans. Increased precipitation and reduced evaporationinduced pluviations in arid regions. Rise of temperature has madeice sheets and glaciers shrink and disappear. Climate has thus controlledthe geological factors. Biota have moved latitudinally andaltitudinally with the climatic belts. Plants and animals have beentrapped by climatic changes in unfavorable locations to become regionally.or universally extinct.The temperature rise which has occurred during the last hundredyears in North America and in Europe (and perhaps elsewhere), togetherwith the general parallelism of the past temperature histories, indicatethat the marked, long-continued temperature ages have prevailed simultaneouslyin... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/38x6g6jp Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Beardsley, Richard K Antevs, Ernst Cook, S.F. Harradine, Frank https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jm5g54h The valley of the lower Colorado River is well known for the immenseoutline figures of gravel which occur on its river terraces. Despite thisfact, only a few archaeologists have shown an interest in them, and as aresult there is little detailed information available concerning them.This paper is designed to sumarize briefly and to note the present stateof such information in order to facilitate future research.The two largest groups of gravel outlines yet discovered are the"giant desert figures" and the "mystic maze." The "giant desert figures"site is located approximately sixteen miles north of Blythe, California,and is clearly pictographic in nature. The "mystic maze" is situatedacross the river from Topock, Arizona, and like a number of the othergravel constructions of the region, may or may not be pictographic innature. However, in the light of presently available information, it doesnot seem practical to attempt to decide which gravel alterations are orare not pictographic.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jm5g54h Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Harner, Michael J. Heizer, Robert F. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6j18h8c3 Methods for Archaeological Site Survey in California&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6j18h8c3 Thu, 9 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Fenenga, Franklin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3dh7m1j6 A Bibliography of the Archaeology of California&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3dh7m1j6 Thu, 9 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Heizer, Robert F https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5tx3j6q3 The chief aim of the California Archaeological Survey is to study and make known to the general and scientific public the prehistory of the State of California. Research is envisaged as the Survey's chief activity, with the State as its field of operation. No area or areas are to be Selected for intensive investigation and no region of the State is to be ignored. Where local institutions have archaeological programs in operation the Survey will stand by to lend a hand if invited and will attempt to carry out its investigations in near-by areas with the full knowledge and cooperation of those local groups primarily concerned with special or local problems. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5tx3j6q3 Wed, 8 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Heizer, Robert F https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nj511gd <p>The unity, such as it is, of the present collection of earlier articles is that they all deal with the people of one California tribe, the Pomo, whose center lay around Clear Lake in the northern Coast Ranges. The extent of the lands occupied by the several divisions of the Pomo tribe, their village locations, and boundaries of the numerous village communities or tribelets are shown on the accompanying map which is reproduced from O. Stewart's Notes on Pomo Ethnogeography (1940). Stewart's quite thorough work, carried out in the late nineteen-thirties, is to be taken as more accurate than the listing and mapping of Pomo tribelets given in Kroeber's Handbook of the Indians of California (1925, pl. 36). Kroeber's map was apparently mainly based on one earlier published by S.A. Barrett in 1908 and which is important in showing a very large number of village site locations.</p><p>The Pomo may have numbered in the late 1700s before the Spanish settlement of the coastal section of... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nj511gd Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7m12q3d8 <p>At Berkeley in the&nbsp;Anthropology files are lists of Chumash place names assembled by C. Hart Merriam and A.L. Kroeber. While there is little, if anything, new in these -- i.e., original information elicited from native Chumash in the present century -- it is possible that these lists may be of some utility to persons concerned with Chumash place names, particularly if they are at all concerned with these names which have earlier appeared in print.</p><p>The Merriam list is an abstract of his California place-tribal name card file which numbers some 18,000 entries. The Kroeber list is on cards bearing the title "Chumashan Villages. Arranged geographically from Handbook of American Indians, 1911." Kroeber located on then available USGS quadrangles the position of as many of these sites as he could, marking sites with approximate locations with an X and those of definitely determined locations with a dot. These quadrangle maps, now in the files, are too large to publish but... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7m12q3d8 Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wd355h9 The crossing of the United States/Mexico border is a dangerous one, so there must be a “push and pull” factor leading many of these individuals to make the journey. This research has based its framework on forensic anthropology work addressing these questions in the past, however, it became clear that identifying and examining those that died crossing the border does not necessarily address the issues or questions in regard to the emotional, social, and political reasons for leaving their country. During the span of this research 30 individuals who have crossed the border within the last 20 years were interviewed. This was done in order to gain an understanding of why they decided to cross. These in person interviews lasted an hour and asked approximately 13 questions. Individuals were asked questions regarding where they were from, their life before crossing, during crossing, and now living in the United States. Individuals were able to pinpoint specific details that led to their... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wd355h9 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Diaz-Longo, Martha N https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gg9m8rg In Spring 2018, Natasha A. Fernández-Pérez approached Christine A. Hastorf because she wanted to do a Directed Reading on phytolith and starch applications to archaeology. Since she wanted to work on the Historical/Contemporary Caribbean, where there plantscape has been affected by colonialism, imperialism and globalization, the readings ranged from all over the Neotropics and included few relevant plants from the Old World (e.g. rice, bananas and Near Eastern cereals). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gg9m8rg Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Fernández-Pérez, Natasha A. Hastorf, Christine A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bq3m8d6 The Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP) (2014- ) is an ongoing effort to document, preserve, study and publish culturally and scientifically important information concerning Palestine’s rural history and heritage. The corpus contains over 1,300 personallyconducted oral history interviews documenting the local body of knowledge of some 700 Palestinian communities. It encompasses rare and invaluable information about Palestine’s historical geography, genealogies, toponymy, archaeology, nature, economy, politics, agricultural practices, traditions and lore. Lastly, it also holds, inter-alia, over a century’s worth of personal stories and recollections of life under Ottoman, British, Jordanian and Israeli rule. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bq3m8d6 Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Marom, Roy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mg6907p Papers on California Archaeology: 70-73 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mg6907p Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Hindes, Margaret G Davis, James T Baumhoff, M A Byrne, J S Payen, L Arthur https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6448d0ds The three papers included in the symposium on the antiquity of man in California were presented before the Southwestern Anthropological Association in the Fall of 1951, The writing of this introduction and editing these papers has been one of the pleasanter aspects of my role as president of the Association. In this symposium there were brought together three of the outstanding scholars of California and inter-mountain pre-history. Bringing as they do a variety of background and special interests and techniques to a common problem, they serve to highlight the present state of knowledge of this particular aspect of anthropology, and to point toward future needs and expectations. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6448d0ds Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Goldschmidt, Walter Heizer, Robert F. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jn5z6h9 During April and May of 1949, test excavations were made at a largestratified shellmound on the shores of San Francisco Bay. 1 The site,designated in the records of the U.0. Archaeological Survey as 4-Mrn-115,is located on a point of land just north of San Rafael. The property isowned by Mr. W.H. Thomas of San Rafael, whose friendly cooperation in permittingthe excavation is here gratefully acknowledged.The preliminary excavations were made to check the stratigraphic andcultural associations of the mound. At the time, it was hoped that excavationof the site would be continued on a larger scale. However, variousfactors have prevented continuance of the work, and it now appears desirableto place on record the sketchy data obtained from the preliminary tests.The artifact sample is regrettably small, consisting of only a handful ofspecimens, but it appears sufficient to outline the cultural position of thesite. The excavation which has been done to date is of importance for tworeasons:... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jn5z6h9 Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Meighan, Clement Baumhoff, Martin Squier, Robert Ellis, H. Holmes Tarr, W.A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5784d0c0 In August, 1952, the present authors and Thomas Bolt carried out anarchaeological reconnaissance of the high Sierra from Markleeville(Eldorado County) in the South to Hobart Mills (Nevada County) in theNorth, and from Cisco (Nevada County) in the West to Spooner Lake(Douglas County, State of Nevada) in the East. The boundaries of ourreconnaissance area were roughly 39025' to 380 30' N. Lat. and 1200 25'to 1190 50' W. Long.Our work was supported by a grant from the Claypool Fund established byMr. W.C. Claypool, Smithfield, Utah, and we express our appreciation hereto Mr. Claypool and President Robert Gordon Sproul, administrator of theFund. We express our special appreciation to Mr. Loring J. Barker andhis son, James, of Berkeley, California for calling to our attention sitePla-5 and for their gift to the UJCAS of a large collection of chipped implementsfrom the site. Our results, while not outstanding in any way,nevertheless represent a solid contribution to Western prehistory.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5784d0c0 Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Heizer, Robert F. Elsasser, Albert B. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1f2679kp In a recent paper (Cook, 1951) the fossilization of bone was consideredfrom the standpoint of the behavior of the principal components: calcium,phosphate, and carbonate. These substances may increase or decrease with theduration of fossilization and in detail are subject to wide fluctuation,depending on the chemical nature of the soil matrix in which the bones are imbedded.Leaching, accumulation, and ion exchange may raise or lower the levelof any of the inorganic constituents in such a way as to make the analyticalvalues in a single specimen of little use in estimating the age of the bone.The organic matter, on the other hand, appears to undergo a consistent secularreduction which is much less dependent upon the chemical and physical environment.The water content likewise decreases quite uniformly with age.The present paper reports the results of recent investigations of theorganic components and water in fossil bone. Application of the results todating is not attempted here... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1f2679kp Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Cook, S.F. Heizer, R.F. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/25n2k5bn This study examines the ink used in an archive of &gt;50 bilingual papyri (in Greek and Demotic) written by a single scribe that were found in two crocodile mummies excavated from Tebtunis by B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt in 1900. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/25n2k5bn Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Packard Grams, Leah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hf4x8h8 <p>This poster, presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, describes the first season of the UC Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility Field School. The 2022 ARF Field School recruited students from a broad range of backgrounds and several nearby colleges with the goal of increasing the discipline’s diversity with 10 new archaeological technicians and graduate students.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hf4x8h8 Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tripcevich, Nicholas Kansa, Sarah Reifschneider, Meredith Tung, Burcu Byram, R. Scott Hastorf, Christine A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3d03828r <p>In the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile dozens of Terminal Pleistocene archaeological sites&nbsp; been identified in an area that previously held seasonal surface water channels, riparian vegetation, and a wetland landscape. These sites shed light on the early peopling of western South America because the onset of hyper-aridity during the early Holocene resulted in severe decline in habitat for most plant and animal life, including humans. The extreme aridity also allowed for the preservation of horse, ground sloth, camelid, rodent, and bird remains that might correspond to different time frames but are being exposed by wind erosion along with other fossilized botanical remains.</p><p>As sand dunes are actively covering and uncovering the surface, in 2018 &nbsp;we carried out geophysical research at Quebrada Mani where some of these archaeological and paleontological features have been exposed and dated to between 12.5 to 11.2k cal BP. In this poster... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3d03828r Sat, 1 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tripcevich, Nicholas Byram, Scott Capriles, Jose M. Santoro, Calogero M. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6770h6s2 The Pompeii Artifact Life History Project completed its eighth field season at the site of Pompeii (Italy) during the period July 3 - July 30, 2022. The project team completed the description of the artifact assemblage from the Casa della Venere in Bikini (I.11.6.7) and completed rapid architectural surveys of this residence and the Casa di Saturninus (I.11.16). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6770h6s2 Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Pena, Theodore J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sc435wg Papers on California Archaeology: 10-12 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sc435wg Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Heizer, Robert F Kroeber, Alfred L Lathrop, D W Meighan, C W https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2f1395sk Molluscan Species in California Shell Middens&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2f1395sk Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Greengo, Robert E https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0q8613j9 Papers on California Archaeology: 13-16 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0q8613j9 Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Cessac, Leon de Hamy, E Riddell, Harry S Wallace, William https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1524w6pz <p>The multi-year project of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology (DAGRS), the Excavation and Conservation of the Early Christian Basilica, at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Ancient Nemea, Greece, began in 2022. The west end of the 5thc. CE building was investigated including the narthex and two rooms added later to the building on the north and south sides. We cleared areas that had been excavated in the 1920s, 1960s, and 1980 to reveal the building’s foundation walls, floor surfaces, and other architectural features, including previously unrecorded interior walls of the 4thc. BCE Xenon building from the pagan panhellenic sanctuary. Overlooked small finds, like coins and painted terracottas, were recovered and we began the full study of pottery and related finds from the previous excavations which remain unpublished.</p><p>The ancient foundations of the Basilica, now accessible in the west part of the building, will be conserved this fall by consolidating the original crumbling... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1524w6pz Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Shelton, Kim https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0915f1f5 The 2022 field season of "City Life at Classic Maya Palenque, Mexico" involved excavations in a densely built up neighborhood in the urban core of this site, most well known for the palaces, temples, and historical monuments of its ruling family, which reached an apogee ca. 600-800 AD. The 2022 excavations are the first season of a multi-season effort to explore a stratified random sample of presumed residential compounds of varied sizes and configurations, identified in our previous analyses as possibly representing different social strata. The first selected compound produced an assemblage from middens adjacent to two structures that reflects everyday life, and includes evidence of wealth in the form of imported obsidian and pieces of discarded white stone luxury objects. Like other known residential compounds of the ruling family and nobles who produced written monuments, the residents of this compound undertook ritual practices, but these appear to be distinct from what has... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0915f1f5 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Joyce, Rosemary A Johnson, Lisa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/553313dz In 1855, Puerto Rico was struck by the cholera epidemic, killing 20,000 to 50,000 individuals – 4-10% of the total population at the time. Due to the high volume of corpses piling up and fear of the disease’s further spreading, a cemetery outside of the walls of El Morro was established. This cemetery remained untouched for over a century, due to fears that the disease might resurface. Today, however, this cemetery is in danger of being destroyed, as tourists in Old San Juan have been recently granted access to this section of the fort, uncovering human remains as they walk in the trail. My research is a rescue bioarchaeological investigation of the site, with the main objectives of collecting, analyzing, preserving, and repatriating the human remains buried here before erosion and intrusion destroy or further compromises the site and its contents. Furthermore, I plan to study the social determinants that affect predisposition and mortality of infectious disease, particularly... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/553313dz Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Marrero-Rosado, Jose L https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99w7g5gz <p>Perhaps no one regional archaeology has been as impacted by the "return of grand theory in the human sciences" as European prehistory, where discussions and publications of the past 8-10 years have focused more on debating social theories than on the discovery of new "finds" or the manipulation of new techniques.</p><p>There are many tantalizing questions as to why social (in the broadest sense of the word) interpretations are now more tolerated and encouraged in European prehistory - at least from the Neolithic on. Is it more acceptable and plausible that the ancestors of the European researchers themselves had social lives of some significance? Or--although we don't agree-- many might argue that it has "merely" been that there has has been more research carried out in Europe, as if there might be a justifiable evolution from tackling questions of chronology to questions of technology and economics to investigating the relatively unknowable: the social and symbolic domains... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99w7g5gz Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Conkey, Margaret (Meg) Tringham, Ruth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gb362ck In this presentation, I revisit the digital training that was carried out by myself and colleagues at the UC Berkeley Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology (MACTiA). During the period of its existence (1998-2011) the program transformed itself enormously not only in response to changing hardware and software, but also as our own interests and experience in archaeological education and community building grew, along with our changing (and diverse) viewpoints of what “digital education” meant in practice. I regard the experiments that I was able (allowed and enabled) to carry out in teaching digital practice and media literacy through the MACTiA being the backbone of my own intellectual development during this period and more recently. The collaboration between faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the MACTiA courses was quite unique, and created many diverse ways of developing digital practices. Throughout this diversity and change, however, there are... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gb362ck Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tringham, Ruth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vz0t8fp John Berger recognized that oil painting was the essential medium of visual imagery of early capitalism. Both Berger and Susan Sontag have drawn attention to the power of the photographic visual imagery for modernistic capitalism. My argument in this paper is that computer generated imagery (CGI) is both the ultimate medium for the expression of the visual imagery of later corporate capitalism, and the medium through which some of the concepts of the feminist critique of science (including archaeology) may be expressed, including a celebration of the ambiguity of the archaeological record and the multiplicity of its interpretations, the multiplicity of scales at which prehistory may be written, and the multiplicity of prehistories that are out there. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vz0t8fp Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tringham, Ruth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fm7r99d The Development of the Household as the Primary Unit of Production in Neolithic and Eneolithic Southeast Europe https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fm7r99d Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tringham, Ruth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qm8p7dx Putting Vision in its Place: the interweaving of senses to create a sense of place at Çatalhöyük. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qm8p7dx Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tringham, Ruth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1x14f1cf WiP-Wedge 1988 Making the Invisible Visible: Women in Households, Housefulls, and archaeological house remains.&nbsp;Pre-conference submission. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1x14f1cf Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tringham, Ruth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qd926t5 This paper is a critical analysis of my own research and that of my U.S., and European colleagues who go to Southeast Europe to do their research. It analyses the nature of their collaboration with the local Balkan archaeologists. It looks at the effect on this collaboration&nbsp; of the post-2nd World War Socialism/Communism. The aim of this paper is to help make more effective the collaboration between archaeologists coming from different political and philosophical backgrounds. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qd926t5 Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tringham, Ruth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pz0k4x2 This chapter is part of an ongoing process in the construction of a recombinant history about Neolithic Anatolia and Southeast Europe called Dead Women Do Tell Tales (DWdTT). It is an extraordinarily complex tangle of fragments about the archaeological construction of Neolithic households, based in the records of the excavations themselves and their published interpretation and interpretive vignettes from my creative imagination. It addresses the question of how to turn this tangle of related fragments into a narrative that is both “landscaped” and “gendered”; and how to make this a narrative that is both engaging for professionals and draws our broader audiences into the glow of engaged curiosity that encourages them to participate in the enterprise of constructing gendered landscapes of the past. The response to these questions is my first step in the design of a serious game based in archaeological research. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pz0k4x2 Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tringham, Ruth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68m107pn Since the explicit collaboration of biological and physical scientists with archaeologists started in the late 1930s, the discourse on the nature of this collaboration has been intense. The question of the relative roles of the specialist scientist and the archaeologist in the collaboration, and the training and experience of both in the use of scientific techniques of recording and analysis is still not resolved, as we shall indicate by our experience in the Catalhoyuk Archaeological Project in Turkey. In this paper, we shall expand this discourse to examine the more recent collaboration of archaeologists with computer graphics specialists as archaeologists increasingly incorporate cutting-edge and not-so-cutting-edge digitaltechnologies into their practice. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68m107pn Thu, 9 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tringham, Ruth Ashley, Michael https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vr171rc Visual Images of Archaeological architecture: gender in space https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vr171rc Thu, 9 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tringham, Ruth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kh6t20h Trade and Trails in Aboriginal California&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kh6t20h Tue, 7 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Sample, L L https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6n5737qz Archaeology of Two Kern County Sites&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6n5737qz Tue, 7 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Riddell, Francis A Heizer, Robert F https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9734734j Methods of Recording and Present Status of Knowledge Concerning Petroglyphs in California&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9734734j Fri, 3 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Fenenga, Franklin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77h8c4d8 Papers on California Archaeology: 1-5 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77h8c4d8 Fri, 3 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Cook, Sherburne F Heizer, Robert F Meighan, Clement A Mills, John E https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d48z9t1 A Bibliography of Ancient Man in California&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d48z9t1 Fri, 3 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Heizer, Robert F https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0tz5786m The Stanford Skull, a Probable Early Man from Santa Clara County, California https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0tz5786m Fri, 3 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Heizer, Robert F. McCown, Theodore D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92d0m4hv <p><em>The Chivay Obsidian Source and its position in the South-Central Andes</em> is the slides and notes from a talk presented by N. Tripcevich in 2005 at the Simposio Internacional Sobre Arqueología del Área Centro Sur Andina in Arequipa, Perú.</p><p><strong><em>English Abtract:&nbsp;</em></strong>Obsidian from the Colca Valley in Arequipa, Peru has been found throughout the south-central Andes and represents over 90% of the obsidian artifacts analyzed from the Titicaca Basin. Recent research in the high altitude source area has documented a quarry pit, a prehispanic road, and numerous obsidian processing areas. Survey and test excavations in 2003 focused on identifying changes in obsidian procurement over time with an emphasis on the lithic reduction strategies and on possible evidence of long distance exchange. The results from this research, and their regional implications in the south-central Andes, will be explored in this talk.</p><p><strong>Resumen en español:</strong>... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92d0m4hv Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tripcevich, Nicholas Yepez Alvarez, Willy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79q8q6sn <p>This poster describes a study that used&nbsp;ethnographic field data to derive an asymmetrical Cauchy (Gaussian) equation that describes the movement of a llama caravan along an ancient trail system as a function of topographic slope. This model is further refined by using ranked observations of changes in trail quality,the negotation of obstacles such as stream-crossings, and the type and duration of rest periods during the daily travel. The resulting cost-distance function was then applied to the actual caravan route in order to evaluate the realism of the model.</p><p> <strong>Download PDF for zoomable, legible&nbsp;version.</strong> </p><p><strong>Related publication:</strong>&nbsp;Tripcevich, N., 2016. The Ethnoarchaeology of a Cotahuasi Salt Caravan: Exploring Andean pastoralist movement. In <em>The Archaeology of Andean Pastoralism</em>, edited by J. M. Capriles and N. Tripcevich, pp. 211-229. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/ite... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79q8q6sn Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tripcevich, Nicholas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12g379hm Gazelle Tooth Enamel Stable Isotope as a Paleoclimate Proxy at Kharaneh IV, Jordan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12g379hm Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 White, AJ