House Pits and Middens: A Methodological Study of Site Structure and Formation Processes at Ca-Ora-116, Newport Bay, Orange County, California
ISBN 10: 1879442663 ISBN 13: 9781879442665
Published by UNIV OF ARIZONA PR, 1999
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KlappentextrnrnORA-116 is one of many coastal shell-midden sites in and around Newport Bay, a large, complex wetlands in southern California. Whereas shell-midden studies have traditionally focused on changes in subsistence and settlement patter. Seller Inventory # 905713939
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ORA-116 is one of many coastal shell-midden sites in and around Newport Bay, a large, complex wetlands in southern California. Whereas shell-midden studies have traditionally focused on changes in subsistence and settlement patterns, this project took a decidedly different approach. Using a variety of innovative detection measures, eleven structures were identified and excavated. Most were interpreted as house pits; one was inferred to be a sweat lodge. The structures dated between about 300 B.C. and A.D. 700, placing the occupation within the Intermediate period. The archaeological study was augmented by pollen and ostracod analysis of a 1,081-cm core taken from the nearby San Joaquin Marsh, which helped establish the Holocene history of Newport Bay. The authors integrate archaeological, ethnographic, and environmental data in a comprehensive settlement and subsistence model that is sure to be of interest to all scholars of coastal wetlands adaptation.
About the Author: Jeffrey H. Altschul is President of Statistical Research, Inc. in Tucson, Arizona
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Title: House Pits and Middens: A Methodological ...
Publisher: UNIV OF ARIZONA PR
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
Edition: 2nd Edition