House pits and middens : a methodological study of site structure and formation processes at CA-ORA-116, Newport Bay, Orange County, California /
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| Imprint: | Tucson, Ariz. : Statistical Research, Inc., 1998. |
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| Description: | xix, 274 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Technical series no. 69. Technical series (Statistical Research, Inc. (Redlands, Calif.)) no. 69. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4218082 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Prepared under contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District ... Prepared for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration." |
| Physical Description: | xix, 274 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references : (p. 255-274). |
| ISBN: | 1879442663 |