| House Pits and Middens: A Methodological Study of Site Structure and Formation Processes at Ca-Ora-116, Newport Bay, Orange County, California Contributor(s): Grenda, Donn R. (Editor), Doolittle, Christopher J. (Editor), Altschul, Jeffrey H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1879442663 ISBN-13: 9781879442665 Publisher: Statistical Research OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1999 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 970 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 8.45" W x 10.83" (1.81 lbs) 274 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - California |
