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Artifacts
Bibliographies & Other Resources
Biographies & Obituaries
California Archaeology, History
Chronology
Climate Change
Culture Classification
Early Man
Early Coastal Migration
Educational Resources
Ethnobotany & Pollen
Ethno., Anthro. & Linguistics
Faunal Analyses 		Field Methods
Features
Geoarchaeology & Landforms
Ground Stone Analyses
Isotopic & Chemical Analyses
Legal Issues
Lithic Analyses
Midden Analyses
Misc. Studies
Radiocarbon Dates & Dating
Rock Art
Site Reports & Excavations
Settlement & Subsistence
Summaries & Overviews

ARTIFACTS
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Breschini, Gary S. and Trudy Haversat
1993 Pitted Stones from CA-SLO-697 and CA-SLO-762, Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California.
2001 An Unusual "S" Shaped Incised Abalone Pendant from CA-MNT-834, Pebble Beach, Monterey County, California.
Cameron, Constance
1999 Determing Tribal Boundaries Through Potsherds--An Archaeological Perspective [PCAS.org].
Fenenga, Gerrit L.
1988 An Analysis of the Shell Beads and Ornaments from CA-MNT-33a, Carmel Valley, Monterey County, California.
Foster, John W.
 n.d.   Ahjumawi Fish Traps: Native Fish Traps along the Shore of Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park, Shasta County, California [California State Parks].
Gibson, Robert O.
1987 An Analysis of Shell and Stone Beads from CA-FRE-1333, Western Fresno County, California.
1988 Preliminary Results of Shell Bead Analysis for CA-SLO-877, Cayucos, San Luis Obispo County, California.
Jenkins, Richard C.
 n.d.   Fluted Point Discovery in Northeast California [California Department of Forestry].
Koerper, Henry C. and Roger D. Mason
1998 A Red Ochre Cogged Stone from Orange County [PCAS.org].

Koerper, Henry C. and Nancy Whitney-Desautels
1999 A Cowry Shell Artifact from Bolsa Chica: An Example of Prehistoric Exchange [PCAS.org].
Laylander, Don
2001 The Casual Look at Fort Irwin: Edge Tools and Prehistoric Mobility.
Newman, Margaret
1993 Immunological Analysis of Artifacts from Site CA-SLO-762, Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California.
Parker, Mari A. Pritchard
1996 A Comparative Analysis of Pollen from Millingstones from CA-RIV-102 (Hemet) and CA-RIV-150 (La Quinta) [PCAS.org].
Rondeau, Michael F. and Vicki L. Rondeau
1987 An Analysis of the Flaked Stone Assemblage from CA-FRE-1333, Western Fresno County, California.
1993 Analysis of the Flaked Stone Assemblage from CA-SLO-762, Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California.
Scalise, Janet
2000 An Analysis of San Clemente Island Ornaments and Pendants [PCAS.org].
Shackley, M. Stephen
1996 Ishi Was Not Necessarily the Last Full-Blooded Yahi: Some Inferences for Hunter-Gatherer Style and Ethnicity [Archaeological Research Facility Newsletter].
Treganza, Adan E.
1946 Californian Clay Artifacts.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES & OTHER RESOURCES
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Anonymous
 n.d.   Bibliography of Alfred L. Kroeber [UC Berkeley]
 n.d.   Bibliography of George F. Carter [UC Berkeley]
California Indian Library Collections Project
 n.d.   Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians.
Erlandson, Jon M.
2002 An Annotated Bibliography for Radiocarbon and Stable Carbon Analyses.
Smithsonian Institution
 n.d.   A Critical Bibliography on North American Indians, for K-12 (California).

BIOGRAPHIES & OBITUARIES
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ACPAC Newsletter
2002 Obituary of David M. Abrams (1943-2001).
2002 Obituary of Francis A. (Fritz) Riddell (1922-2002).
Anonymous
1997 Franklin Fenenga, 1917-1994.
Brooks, Sheilagh T.
1976 Cook, Sherburne F.--A Tribute to Sherburne Friend Cook, 1896-1974.
Dillon, Brian D.
2002 In Memorium: Francis A. (Fritz) Riddell, 1921-2002 [California Department of Forestry].
Farris, Glenn
2002 Obituary of F. Lee Motz (June 14, 1934-April 17, 2002).
Hester, Thomas R.
 n.d.   Heizer, Robert F.--Biography of Robert F. Heizer.
Parkman, E. Breck
2001 A Tribute to Mark Gary [California Department of Forestry].
Thompson, Kenneth, D.L. True and D.L. Olmsted
1985 In Memorium: Martin Alexander Baumhoff, Anthropology, Davis.

CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY
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Riddell, Francis A.
2001 As It Was (part 1) [SCANET.org].
Yatsko, Andrew
2000 From Sheepherders to Cruise Missiles: A Short History of Archaeological Research at San Clemente Island [PCAS.org].

CHRONOLOGY
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Goldberg, Carol, Michelle Titus, Roy Salls and Rainer Berger
2000 Site Chronology on San Clemente Island, California [PCAS.org].

Climate Change
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Boxt, Matthew A., L. Mark Raab, Owen K. Davis and Kevin O. Pope
1999 Extreme Late Holocene Climate Change in Coastal Southern California [PCAS.org].

CULTURE CLASSIFICATION
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Breschini, Gary S.
1983 The History of Archaeological Classification in Central California.
Elsasser, Albert B.
1960 The History of Culture Classification in California.

EARLY MAN
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Custred, Glen
2002 The Case of Kennewick Man: Linguistic Evidence and Cultural Affiliation [Mammoth Trumpet].
Johnson, John R.
 n.d.   Ancient Bones May Rewrite History [Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History].
2001 An Informal Update on the Arlington Springs Remains [Friends of America's Past].

EARLY COASTAL MIGRATION
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Chandler, James M.
2002 The Baja Connection: Did the First Americans Make the Crossing from Asia By Boat? If So, They May Have Stopped Here. [Mammoth Trumpet].
Lepper, Brad
2000 Coastal Navigators: The First Americans May Have Come by Water [Mammoth Trumpet].

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
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Gordon, Mary
1999 Discovering Archaeology in California: Resource Directory for Teaching Archaeology [SCANet.org].
Smithsonian Institution
 n.d.   A Critical Bibliography on North American Indians, for K-12 (California).

ETHNOBOTANY & POLLEN
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Parker, Mari A. Pritchard
1996 A Comparative Analysis of Pollen from Millingstones from CA-RIV-102 (Hemet) and CA-RIV-150 (La Quinta) [PCAS.org].
Reddy, Seetha
1999 Plant Usage and Prehistoric Diet: Paleoethnobotanical Investigations on Camp Pendleton, Southern California [PCAS.org].

ETHNOGRAPHY, ANTHROPOLOGY & LINGUISTICS
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Breschini, Gary S. and Trudy Haversat
1997 Linguistics and Prehistory: A Case Study from the Monterey Bay Area.
1999 Post-Contact Esselen Occupation of the Santa Lucia Mountains.
Breschini, Gary S., Trudy Haversat and Tom "Little Bear" Nason
1999 The Sarhentaruc Problem.
Custred, Glen
2002 The Case of Kennewick Man: Linguistic Evidence and Cultural Affiliation [Mammoth Trumpet].
Hardy, Ellen T.
2000 Religious Aspects of the Material Remains from San Clemente Island [PCAS.org].
Johnson, John R. and Dinah Crawford
1999 Contributions to Luiseno Ethnohistory Based on Mission Register Research [PCAS.org].
Shackley, M. Stephen
1996 Ishi Was Not Necessarily the Last Full-Blooded Yahi: Some Inferences for Hunter-Gatherer Style and Ethnicity [Archaeological Research Facility Newsletter].
San Diego State University
 n.d.   California Indians.
 n.d.   California Indians and Their Reservations: An Online Dictionary.
Schroth, Adella A.
1996 An Ethnographic Review of Grinding, Pounding, Pulverizing, and Smoothing with Stones [PCAS.org].
Swartz, B.K., Jr.
1958 A Study of the Material Aspects of Northeastern Maidu Basketry [bsu.edu].

FAUNAL ANALYSES
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Koerper, Henry C. and Nancy Whitney-Desautels
1999 Astragalus Bones: Artifacts or Ecofacts? [PCAS.org].
Langenwalter, P.E. II
1987 Vertebrate Animal Remains from CA-FRE-1333, Western Fresno County, California.
Porcasi, Judith F.
1999 Prehistoric Bird Remains from the Southern Channel Islands [PCAS.org].
1999 A Statistical Method for the Identification of Albatross (Phoebastria) Species [PCAS.org].
Salls, Roy A.
2000 The Prehistoric Fishery of San Clemente Island [PCAS.org].
Slyke, Noel Van
1998 A Review of the Analysis of Fish Remains in Chumash Sites [PCAS.org].
Sweeney, Francoise J.G.
1986 Vertebrate Remains from CA-SCR-35, Santa Cruz County, California.
Wake, Thomas
1999 Temporal Variation in Vertebrate Archaeofaunas from Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, San Diego County, California [PCAS.org].

Field Methods
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Reddy, Seetha and Alice Brewster
1999 Applying GIS to Archaeological Site Prediction on Camp Pendleton, Southern California [PCAS.org].

FEATURES
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Foster, John W.
 n.d.   Ahjumawi Fish Traps: Native Fish Traps along the Shore of Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park, Shasta County, California [California State Parks].
Gerow, Bert A.
1991 Stanford Man II, An Early Grave from the San Francisco Bay Region.
Kyle, Carolyn E.
1996 A 2,000 Year Old Milling Tool Kit from CA-SDI-10148, San Diego, California [PCAS.org].
Sutton, Mark Q.
1996 A Charmstone Cache from the Southern San Joaquin Valley [PCAS.org].

Geoarchaeology & Landforms etc.
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Engstrom, Wayne
1999 The Nineteenth Century Physical Geography of the Camp Pendleton Coastline [PCAS.org].
Jackson, Tom
 n.d.   Higher Sea Levels 6000 Years Ago or "When the Surf was really up!! [Cabrillo College Archaeological Technology Program].
Pearl, Frederic B. and Michael R. Waters
1999 A Geoarchaeological Assessment of Alluvial Valleys at Camp Pendleton with an Overview of the Important Natural Site Formation Processes [PCAS.org].
Porcasi, Paul, Judith F. Porcasi and Colin O'Neill
1999 Early Holocene Coastlines of the California Bight: The Channel Islands as Visited by Humans [PCAS.org].
Yatsko, Andrew
2000 Of Marine Terraces and Sand Dunes: The Landscape of San Clemente Island [PCAS.org].

GROUND STONE ANALYSES
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Dulitz, David
2000 Rock Basins in Mt. Home State Forest and Immediate Vicinity [California Department of Forestry].
Parker, Mari A. Pritchard
1996 A Comparative Analysis of Pollen from Millingstones from CA-RIV-102 (Hemet) and CA-RIV-150 (La Quinta) [PCAS.org].
Sandelin, Linda C.
2000 Inventory Project of the Rock-Basin Sites of the Southern Sierra Nevada of California [California Department of Forestry].
2000 Lucky 13: A Recent Discovery in the Search for the Northern Boundary of Southern Sierra Rock Basins [California Department of Forestry].
Schneider, Joan S. and Richard H. Osborne
1996 A Model for the Production of Portable Stone Mortars and Bowls [PCAS.org].
Schroth, Adella A.
1996 An Ethnographic Review of Grinding, Pounding, Pulverizing, and Smoothing with Stones [PCAS.org].

ISOTOPIC & CHEMICAL ANALYSES
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Koerper, Henry C. and John S. Killingley
1998 Oxygen Isometry Yields Seasonality Estimates for a Shellfish Sample from CA-ORA-855 [PCAS.org].

LEGAL ISSUES
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California Resources Agency
1977 Society for California Archaeology v. County of Butte [California Resources Agency].
 n.d.   California Environmental Quality Act [California Resources Agency].

LITHIC ANALYSES
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Bieling, D. and S. Psota
1997 Obsidian Studies at CA-ALA-42.
1997 Obsidian Studies at CA-SOL-356.
Bouey, Paul
2000 Source Determination of Archaeological Obsidian Specimens, San Clemente Island [PCAS.org].
International Association for Obsidian Studies
 n.d.   California Obsidian Sources.
 n.d.   California Obsidian Source References.
Rondeau, Michael F. and Vicki L. Rondeau
1987 An Analysis of the Flaked Stone Assemblage from CA-FRE-1333, Western Fresno County, California.
1991 A Technological Analysis of the Flaked Stone Assemblage
from Archaeological Sites CA-SLO-692 and CA-MNT-1425,
in San Luis Obispo and Monterey Counties, California.
1993 Analysis of the Flaked Stone Assemblage from CA-SLO-762, Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California.
Scalise, Janet
2000 Obsidian Evidence for San Clemente Island and the Establishment of a Tentative Hydration Rate [PCAS.org].
Swartz, B.K., Jr.
1960 Blade Manufacture in Southern California [bsu.edu].

MIDDEN ANALYSES
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Glassow, Michael A.
 n.d.   Archaeological Research on Santa Cruz Island: The Red Abalone Midden Project [University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Anthropology].
Goldberg, Paul and Brian Byrd
1999 The Interpretive Potential of Micromorphological Analysis at Prehistoric Shell Midden Sites on Camp Pendleton [PCAS.org].
Raab, L. Mark
1999 Comments on the Interpretive Potential of Micromorphological Analysis at Prehistoric Shell Midden Sites on Camp Pendleton [at end of article] [PCAS.org].

MISC. STUDIES
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Glassow, Michael A.
1999 Comments on Contributions to the Prehistory and Archaeology of Camp Pendleton [PCAS.org].
Keeley, Jon E.
2002 Native American Impacts on Fire Regimes of the California Coastal Ranges [Biogeography].
Waechter, Sharon A.
2002 Archaeology and the Highway 88 Fire, August of 2001 [California Department of Forestry].

RADIOCARBON DATES & DATING
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Breschini, Gary S. and Trudy Haversat
2001 AMS Radiocarbon Dates on Three Mussel Shell Fishhooks from CA-MNT-113C, Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California.
2001 AMS Radiocarbon Dates on Type G1 and K1 Olivella Shell Beads from CA-MNT-1701, Carmel Valley, Monterey County, California.
2001 AMS Radiocarbon Date on a Type N1bIII Haliotis Ornament from CA-SCR-44, Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, California.
2002 Dating 103.
Erlandson, Jon M.
2002 An Annotated Bibliography for Radiocarbon and Stable Carbon Analyses.

ROCK ART
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Breschini, Gary S. and Trudy Haversat
2002 Hands: A Unique Esselen Indian Artform.
Drake, Bill
2000 Ancient Petroglyph Makers of the Northern Sierra [Friends of Sierra Rock Art].
Foster, Daniel G.
1999 Abstract-Representational Petroglyphs of the Northern Sierra Nevada, California [California Department of Forestry].
Foster, D. and John W. Foster
 n.d.   An Outstanding Petroglyph Site near the Eel River, Trinity County, California [California Department of Forestry].
Knight, Albert
2001 Notes on the Rock Art of California's Channel Islands.
Mark, Robert and Evelyn Billo
1998 Two Stray Quadrupeds at Weitchpek (CA-HUM-173).
Royo, A.R.
 n.d.   Petroglyphs of the Cosos [Desert USA].
Ruggles, Clive
1995 Images of Rock Art Sites in California: Burro Flats (Chumash Territory).
Swartz, B.K., Jr.
1967 Review of Prehistoric Rock Art of Nevada and Eastern California, by R.F. Heizer and M.A. Baumhoff [bsu.edu].
1998 A Comparative Design Element Analysis of Klamath Basin (Modoc), Southern Sierra (Yokuts) and Santa Barbara (Chumash) Pictograph Styles, California-Oregon [bsu.edu].

SITE REPORTS & EXCAVATIONS
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Anonymous
 n.d.   Archaeological Excavations at the CDF Murphys Fire Station, Calaveras County, California [California Department of Forestry].
 n.d.   Archaeological Excavations at the CDF Hurley Fire Station, Fresno County, California [California Department of Forestry].
Arnold, Jeanne
1997 Household Archaeology on the Channel Islands [UCLA Backdirt].
Bennyhoff, James A.
1986 The Emeryville Site (CA-ALA-309) Viewed 93 Years Later.
Breschini, Gary S. and Trudy Haversat
1986 Archaeological Investigations at CA-MNT-149, in the Del Monte Forest, Monterey County, California.
1987 Archaeological Investigations at CA-FRE-1333, in the White Creek Drainage, Western Fresno County, California.
1991 Archaeological Investigations at CA-SLO-692, in the Nacimiento Lake Area, Northern San Luis Obispo County, California.
Chace, Paul G.
1998 Of the Old Summer Fishing Camp: The Archaeological Heritage of ORA-1429, Los Trancas Canyon, Crystal Cove State Park [PCAS.org].
Elsasser, Albert B.
1986 The Site on Gunther Island (CA-HUM-67) in Humboldt Bay.
Fredrickson, David A.
1986 Buena Vista Lake (CA-KER-116) Revisited.
Green, Terisa
1999 "and both parents are fond of their children": Reinterpretation of Wealthy Chumash Child Burials [UCLA Backdirt].
King, Thomas F.
1966 CA-SON-320: An Unusual Archaeological Site on Bodega Head, Sonoma County, California.
1968 Excavations at Site CA-SON-392, Near Petaluma, California.
Martinez, Antoinette
1995 Excavation of a Kashaya Pomo Village in Northern California (Sonoma County) [Archaeological Research Facility Newsletter].
McGuire, Kelly and Sharon A. Waechter
2001 Place of Many Soldiers: Archaeological Investigations at Crooks Canyon [Modoc County] [FarWestern.com].
Mealey, Marls M.
 n.d.   Results of Excavations and Surface Collections at Torrey Pines State Reserve [California State Parks].
Meighan, Clement W.
1986 Review of the Borax Lake Site (CA-LAK-36).
Napton, L. Kyle and Elizabeth Anne Greathouse
2000 Archaeological Investigations at the CDF Ishi Conservation Camp [California Department of Forestry].
Olson, William H.
1986 History of a Central California Site: Or What Happened at King Brown (CA-SAC-29)?
Parrish, Otis, Dan Murley, Roberta Jewett and Kent Lightfoot
2000 The Science of Archaeology and the Response from Within Native California: The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Metini Village in the Fort Ross State Historic Park [University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology].
Popetz, K., W. Self, A. Estes and J. Allen
2002 What You See Isn't Always What You Get: Archaeological Sampling and Data Recovery at CA-CCO-474/H, Hercules, CA [WilliamSelfAssoc.com].
Waechter, Sharon A.
1997 The Brazil Mound [CA-SAC-43]: Archaeology of a Prehistoric Village [FarWestern.com].
Wallace, William J.
1988 Archaeological Investigations at CA-FRE-115, in the Vermilion Valley, Eastern Fresno County, California.

SETTLEMENT & SUBSISTENCE
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Byrd, Brian F. and Seetha Reddy
1999 Collecting and Residing Near the Shore: The Role of Small and Large Sites in Settlement Reconstruction [PCAS.org].
Foster, Karen Rasmussen
1999 The Red Beach Site and 3,000 Years of Coastal Settlement Change [PCAS.org].
Laylander, Don
2002 Measuring Settlement Intensity and Dispersion in the Prehistoric Mojave Desert.
Noah, Anna C.
1998 Prehistoric Fishing on the San Diego Coast [PCAS.org].
Swartz, B.K., Jr.
1960 Evidence for the Indian Occupation of Santa Barbara Island [bsu.edu].

SUMMARIES & OVERVIEWS
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Meighan, Clement W.
2000 Overview of the Archaeology of San Clemente Island, California [PCAS.org].
Pribish, Reinhard
 n.d.   The Prehistory of Owens Valley [FarWestern.com].
 n.d.   8,000 Years of Change at Morro Bay: An Archaeological Perspective [FarWestern.com].
Raab, L. Mark
1999 Prespectives on the Role of CRM Archaeology in California [PCAS.org].


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