Allensworth, California stands as an example of a larger social and economic movement to build African American town-sites, a movement that took place across the United States following the Civil War. Racial discrimination enabled the existence of the . . .

Purpose of the Study: The history of the Pacific Northwest has favored large, extractive and national industries such as the fur trade, mining, lumbering, fishing and farming over smaller pioneer enterprises. This multi-disciplinary study attempts to . . .

Purpose of the Study: The intent of this thesis is to demonstrate that industrial landscapes and other “invisible,” or historically undervalued, landscapes have interpretive potential. The overall goals in this study are to contribute to the academic . . .

This thesis research focuses on a curated CRM collection of Late Period Chumash chert microdrills from CA-SLO-214. The main goal of this research is to compare the Chumash drill-making industry in Los Osos to the known industry on the Channel Islands. . . .

Purpose of Study: In an effort to preserve data for future research, artifact collections are diligently excavated and curated. The purpose of this project was to test the hypothesis that curated artifact collections hold invaluable research potential . . .

Purpose: This thesis documents archaeological investigations within the Bureau of Land Management South Cow Mountain Off-highway Vehicle Recreation Area (SCMRA), Lake and Mendocino counties, California. The primary purposes are: (1) conduct an intensi . . .

William Gwynn's entrepreneurial character was the impetus behind the 1850's inception of the lime industry in Oroville, Butte County, along the West Branch of the Feather River. Gwynn recognized the need for collateral industries to gold mining, and t . . .

Winona Bombing Target #2 (WBT#2) is a target training area located in Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area in Imperial County, California. From 1944 to 1945, WBT#2 was accessed by the Navy to train Eleventh Naval District fighter pilots in h . . .

Purpose of the Investigative Project: In accordance with the Collection’s Management Policy of the Sonoma County Museum, will be (1) to assist the Museum in interpreting a thematically based multimedia presentation of a portion of their collection; (2 . . .

Purpose of the Study: Previous analyses of prehistoric burial sites in California have focused on the change from the band to the tribal level of society, while comparatively little research has focused on later, increasingly complex sites. In additio . . .

Purpose or the Study: A detailed culture history is the necessary first step towards understanding the processes responsible for the development of prehistoric cultural systems. In Central California, three broad cultural patterns have been defined ba . . .

Purpose of the Study: The document on which this thesis is based was created under the terms of a cooperative agreement between the National Park Service (NPS) and Sonoma State University (SSU) to create a cultural resource appendix to the Fire Manage . . .

Purpose of Study: Within the last several decades, archaeological research on gendered identities of the past has become more commonplace. However, much of this research focuses on the gendered experiences of white middle-class women, many located alo . . .

Purpose of the Study: Hoping to gain a better life for their families, Chinese men immigrated to California at the start of the Gold Rush in the mid-19th century. Despite prejudice and anti-Chinese legislation, the Chinese of California were a major f . . .

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 . . .

PURPOSE OF THESIS: The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) was established in 1934 by activists concerned over the preservation of natural landscapes and resources. The District currently has stewardship and management responsibilities for over 10 . . .

PURPOSE OF THESIS: The aims of this thesis are to provide Sonoma Land Trust with a cultural resources management plan that will fit neatly both into any regulatory framework that may become pertinent and with Sonoma Land Trust's mission and future pla . . .

Purpose of the Study: Classifying archaeological resources as nonrenewable has fostered an ethic demanding consideration by public agencies initiating potentially destructive activities. Consequently, modem archaeology is compliance driven. Compliance . . .

PURPOSE OF THESIS: Interpretation is a form of education that encourages the public to appreciate cultural resources and commit to preserving them for future generations. Although there are laws, regulations, guidelines and policies that mandate or re . . .

Purpose of Study: The goal of this thesis is to lay a strong foundation on which future research can build. To accomplish this goal I will create a synthesis of the Marin County archaeological data (excluding Point Reyes National Seashore), primarily . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship of consultation between archaeologists and Native American groups with respect to cultural resources that exists because of consultation procedures that began being requir . . .

Purpose of the Study: This thesis is based on the excavations carried out at Cabin B to investigate the foundation for the Friends of the Cowell Lime Works volunteers who are restoring the cabin, to recover a range of artifacts left by the occupants o . . .

Purpose of the Study: The Carrillo Adobe site is a historically significant archaeological site with the potential to yield important information about the prehistory and history of the Santa Rosa area and about interactions between different cultural . . .

Purpose of the Study: The lack of dating techniques for and ethnographic information about petroglyphs has usually led to their exclusion from analyses because they cannot be dated, and therefore, cannot be linked to a cultural sequence. In addition, . . .

Purpose of the Study: The primary goal of this thesis is to comprehensively document the social history and physical development of Preston, a health-oriented religious colony which existed from 1885-1935. The Sonoma County settlement numbered about 1 . . .

Purpose of the Study: Inter-site analyses have been lacking for the northern Sonoma coast. This study was undertaken to confirm survey data regarding site types, synthesize previous single-site studies, and generate the outline of a chronological sequ . . .

Purpose of the Study: Classroom based archaeology education programs for elementary age students are often geared mostly to the science curriculum and are based on non-local, aggrandized archaeological sites. Archaeology educational materials created . . .

Purpose of Thesis: Ranching has been the dominant industry on the Point Reyes peninsula from the 1830s to the present, and the material remnants of these activities make up a significant portion of the cultural resources the Point Reyes National Seash . . .

Purpose of Study: The Gunther barbed projectile point type has long been considered as a time marker of the late prehistoric period in Northern California. During the 39 years since its introduction the utility of the type has been diluted by a growin . . .

Purpose Jackson Demonstration State Forest, managed by California Department of Forestry (CDF), must comply with environmental protections codified in the Forest Practice Rules. Within these rules are requirements for the identification and preservati . . .

Purpose of the Study: Artifacts of Chinese origin have always fascinated the historical archaeologist, both due to their ease of identification and representation of an otherness. Analyses of these artifacts, however, often offer little more than a sh . . .

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to preliminarily identify the Granada Relocation Center (Amache) as a place that has traditional cultural significance and to evaluate the eligibility of Amache as a traditional cultural property for listing on t . . .

The salt ponds and levees of southern San Francisco Bay are a culturally significant landscape wherein culture and nature have been linked over 150 years of industrial salt production through solar evaporation in an extensive wetland ecosystem. This 1 . . .

Purpose of the Study: This curriculum project was implemented pursuant to the provisions of Standard Agreement 4-843-3502, between the California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) and Sonoma State Academic Foundation (SSUAF). According to this . . .

Purpose of Study: During a recent archaeological investigation in Alexander Valley, results from obsidian sourcing and flaked stone analyses suggested a greater use of culturally modified non-quarry obsidian than previously identified in Sonoma County . . .