Understanding how culture shapes skeletal development, maintenance, and decomposition is critical to bioarchaeological studies that depend on skeletal assemblages to make conclusions about past populations. Few studies have thus far focused on how soc . . .

In 1956, members of the University of California Survey, Baumhoff, Bennyhoff, Elasser, and Kranz, excavated Payne’s Cave (CA-TEH-193), a site associated with Southern Yana territory. The artifact assemblage indicated a clear pre- and protohistoric occ . . .

The events of September 11, 2001 caused emotional trauma across the United States and elicited myriad reactions within the Nation that effected the lives of every American to some degree. In the months and years following the attacks, there was an ent . . .

The identification of autopsy and dissection on human skeletal remains is challenged by a lack of formal diagnostic criteria for distinguishing between various anatomization activities. The Point San Jose assemblage consists of commingled, fragmentary . . .

Commingling provides a unique challenge in the identification of human remains. The ability to accurately sort the skeletal elements of two or more individuals is vitally important in mass disasters or in other situations in which the bones of one ind . . .

The purpose of this study is to review and garner a better understanding of archaeological law and site protection as implemented by government agencies and affiliates in northern California. In recent years, a 67-year-old man was sentenced to three y . . .

Skeletal quantification is critical to the analysis of skeletal assemblages. The use of multiple skeletal elements to estimate numbers of individuals can increase viability of estimation methods. Quantification, however, is both necessitated and const . . .

In the past 20 years, the Internet has become one of the most important tools for Americans in everyday life. The increase usage of the Internet has made it imperative for museums, of all sizes, to not just look into, but to use the Internet as a sour . . .

Commingling of human skeletal remains impedes anthropological analyses. Therefore, researchers must develop methods for individuating remains. One such method is osteometric sorting, but most studies have not included frameworks for resolving commingl . . .

Throughout the destructive patterns of Western expansion and the fervor of the California Gold Rush in the second half of the nineteenth century, California Indians suffered unmatched brutality under the guise of California’s developing democracy. In . . .