Purpose: This thesis synthesizes extant information relating to the prehistory of the upper Cache Creek watershed that helps to contextualize prehistoric cultural resources in the Bureau of Land Management Indian Valley/ Walker Ridge Recreation Area ( . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study is to generate a context for describing the use and reuse of a trail through the Mayacamas Mountains, historically described as the “Trail between Hopland and Lakeport," and also having its origins as an . . .

Native Americans have established many places which they consider sacred. Sacred sites vary in form, ranging from settlements where Native Americans lived to specific places of religious significance. Sacred sites are invaluable to Native Americans be . . .

Of the numerous Chinese junks used in the shrimp fishery of San Francisco Bay between 1850 -1913, only the partial remains of two are known to exist today. Buried since 1913 in the tidal mud flats of China Camp State Park in San Rafael, California, th . . .

Purpose of the Study: This thesis examined previous archaeological investigations, ethnographies, lithic material, projectile points, other artifacts, and spatial patterns to identify themes in the data with the purpose of identifying a range of possi . . .

Purpose of the Study: The goal of this thesis is to place the Rockpile petroglyphs within context. Petroglyphs form one of the most long lasting examples of past cultures. The concentration of petroglyphs and other cultural material in this relatively . . .

Purpose: The Western gold rushes are often portrayed through sweeping statements and generalizations, many focusing largely on what has become the American institution of The Mining Camp: a bachelor society ripe with all the vice and violence of the f . . .

In the past three decades the field of cultural resources management (CRM) has seen a rise in literature and initiatives geared towards public outreach and community engagement. This is primarily because archaeologists have recognized that effective a . . .

The Certified Local Government Program presents an opportunity for Sonoma to create an inventory of heritage resources that meets the requirements of the program, and is also a community-based project. The themes of civic engagement, community buildin . . .

PURPOSE OF STUDY: Holocene landscape evolution has created significant biases in the nature and completeness of the archaeological record in much of California. Landscape changes include multiple cycles of deposition which have buried a substantial nu . . .