Purpose of the Study: The Royal Presidio of Monterey functioned as the center of cultural, political, and economic activities in California during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. There has been very little published about the Presidio of Monte . . .

Purpose of the Study: The very nature of how CRM and museum practitioners do work is changing based on the increasing interest and need to include the communities where they work in order to remain relevant. Museums, as a result, face new and unique c . . .

Purpose of Study Salt has an interesting, and at times, invisible history in the archaeological record. The history of indigenous salt use in California and the Great Basin is further obscured by the lack of archaeological correlates associated with t . . .

Purpose: Latinos comprise almost a quarter of the population in Sonoma County, yet local, state, and national parks struggle to increase diversity among park users by promoting participation of Latinos in their park programming and gaining their commu . . .

Purpose of Study: This thesis investigates the ability to use bedrock mortar depth to reliably infer resource processing goals of the prehistoric peoples that utilized Browns Valley Ridge, California. The study area is a portion of a Sierra foothill f . . .

Purpose of Study: This thesis consists of a historical overview and technical recording of cultural resources within the Veronda-Falletti ranch, a four-acre agricultural complex located in Cotati, California. The thesis includes a historic context tha . . .

Purpose: This study seeks to establish a foundation of research for a subject that has been largely overlooked in the archaeological and historical literature of California in general and Big Sur in particular. Doghole ports served as essential condui . . .

This project questions conceptualizations of time which categorize Native American and non-Native American occupation as inherently separate through the use of terms such as “historic” and “prehistoric”. Using recent developments in the studies of hou . . .

This research provides an examination of one small-scale, 19th century community located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near the North Fork, Middle Fork of the American River. This community was comprised of the populations of three mining townsites, . . .

Allensworth, established in 1908 in the San Joaquin Valley, is the only town in California to have been founded, financed, and governed by African Americans. Its founding represents African American efforts to achieve greater opportunity and to prove . . .