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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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781879442665 |
Publisher: | Statistical Research, Inc. |
Imprint: | SRI Press |
Pub date: | 01 Apr 1999 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 274 |
Weight: | 821g |
Height: | 275mm |
Width: | 215mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |