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Amah Mutsun Ohlone
Professor Lightfoot is going to be working on collaborative archaeology with this tribe at Pinnacles National Monument this summer.
Refer to 11-24 Notes
Related reading, authors, Cuthrell, Striplen, Lightfoot (from 11-22)
IDEA: Native landscape management practices
collaborative project in Quirosote Valley, area inside the Ano Nuevo State Reserve
- desire to have better understanding of such practices, how CA Indians enhanced biodiversity and productivity of plants/animals through prescribed burning
Main points: 1. Use fire history or fire ecology, fire scar dendrochronology 2. Use palynology/charcoal 3. Archaeology: CA-SMA-113 1. poop. high status position, cook for large # of people 1. Observe cultural rules 1. living site - shovel hurts it 2. No artifact collection on sacred mound house itself 3. No alcohol 4. Kella: menstruating women were not allowed to work on a sacred/holy site (social taboo of stakeholders) 1. Field strategies 1. Topo maps 2. geophysical survey 1. magnetometer, 2. conductivity 1. surface collection 2. penetrating excavation (surgical operations)
Gina Michaels * worked on the market street china town at San Jose, article on pecked-marked vessels * she worked with the ceramics * KEY points: * she was an example of **stylistic analysis; * she was able to analyze these ceramics that they were hand-scratched asian symbols on a number of ceramics(some were blessings, names?). * practice reflected in tenement homes and ppl living in stores * new hybrid practice in new living situation multiple lines of evidence
2 sets of multiple lines of evidence that we use