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ThesisRockefeller, Camilla A.Purpose of the Study: This thesis tests the hypothesis that, in the absence of known descendants, modern-day merchant mariners can and ought to be considered a descendant community for those buried at a Nineteenth-century Merchant Marine Cemetery (MMC . . .
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ThesisDenham, Brian G.Purpose of the Study: As we move into the digital age of mapping, the use of technologies such as GIS are becoming common place. Yet critical assessment of mapping practices and associated technologies is lacking. The idea of taking a critical technol . . .
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ThesisHunter, Jocelyn BrabynPurpose: This study explores how the Kashaya Pomo village of Qowíšal became the industrial maritime landscape at Black Point that was transformed in less than a century into a vacation destination through careful management and a complex process of fo . . .
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ThesisFaycurry, Jessica ElenaPurpose: Doghole ports and related maritime townsites acted as integral centers of maritime trade, transportation, communication, and commerce in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, and form Sonoma’s maritime cultural landscape. Unfortunately, eval . . .
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ThesisChang, Caitlin W.Purpose of the Study: This study interprets how ethnic identity was negotiated through foodways by Chinese migrants and their American born children at the San Luis Obispo (SLO) Chinatown during the late 19th to early 20th Centuries. The interpretatio . . .
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ThesisHanes, Philip G.Purpose: The goal of this thesis research is to perform a geophysical survey at Sonoma State Historic Park (SSHP), in order to locate potential buried resources. This survey takes into consideration local knowledge and existing cultural resources to d . . .
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ThesisThompson, Erica RoseAllensworth, 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 . . .
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ThesisBrokenshire, ChelsieThis 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, . . .
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ThesisSims, AshleighThis 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 . . .
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ThesisField, JasonPurpose: 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 . . .
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ThesisLyons, YeseniaPurpose 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 . . .
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ThesisPrice, DavidPurpose 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 . . .
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ThesisCuevas, IrmaPurpose: 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 . . .
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ThesisCastro, MarkPurpose 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 . . .
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ThesisWells, MeganPurpose 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 . . .
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ThesisLucido, Jennifer A.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 . . .
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ThesisHenry Roberts, LilyPurpose of the Study: The intent of this thesis is to gain a better understanding of the use of toxic material during historic gold mining operations and its impact on the historic community. Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park is home to what once w . . .
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ThesisBrowning III, Gilbert R. H.Purpose of the Study: Originally purchased by the State in 1971, the Annadel region has experienced continuous human involvement for thousands of years. The present ASP landscape's complexity is due to this continual human manipulation, frequently in . . .
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ThesisMick, Erin A.By using Santa Rosa, California as a case study, this thesis will show how an application of landscape archaeology can be a valuable tool for civic engagement, community outreach or can contribute to implications in law and urban planning. In Santa Ro . . .
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ThesisMikulik, Charles JamesPurpose of Study: To develop a more sophisticated understanding of the relationships involved in successfully evaluating and managing cultural and heritage resources by integrating stakeholders into cultural resource management projects. Procedure: Co . . .
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ThesisJones, Terry L.Purpose of the Study: A number of major problems exist in our knowledge of the prehistory of the northern Sierra Nevada. Many of these are related to the concept of boundaries between human groups and how they are represented archaeologically. The pur . . .
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ThesisHilton, Steven M.Purpose of the Study: The 2013 National Register of Historic Places listing amendment for Empire Mine State Historic Park (EMSHP) expanded the boundaries of the Empire Mine Historic District to include over 1,700 newly recorded historical resource fea . . .
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ThesisEvans, Sally R.Purpose of the Study: This study seeks to determine if high frequencies of auditory exostosis in prehistoric populations living along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay are due to participation in cold water subsistence behavior rather than being gene . . .
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ThesisWills, WesleyPurpose of the Study: Archaeologists in Yosemite National Park have spent decades managing sites in remote areas of Yosemite. Associated research has focused primarily on local prehistory in relation to regional patterns in the central Sierra Nevada. . . .
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ThesisDeBaker, Cassidy R.Purpose: There has been very little written about Mission San Rafael Arcangel, especially in comparison to the other 20 California missions. Its documentary record is clouded with inconsistencies, omissions, and miscalculations, often raising more que . . .
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ThesisPraetzellis, MaryThe 28.5-mile long Kelly Road was constructed in 1953 by Paul Kelly and his wife to allow the transportation of lumber through the rugged mountains of northwestern Sonoma County from Annapolis to Cloverdale. For this study, Kelly Road was viewed as a . . .
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ThesisPsota, SunshinePurpose 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 . . .
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ThesisEastman, BrightPurpose 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 . . .
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ThesisJohnck, Ellen JoslinThe 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 . . .
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ThesisHanes, Erin M.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 . . .
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ThesisYang, Jeannie KristenPurpose 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 . . .
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ThesisMedin, AnmariePurpose 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 . . .
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ThesisJaffke, Todd D.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 . . .
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ThesisEngel, Paul M.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 . . .
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ThesisEvans-White, JulesPurpose 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 . . .
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ThesisDowdall, Katherine M.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 . . .
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ThesisHoods, Holly L.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 . . .
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ThesisJordan, LeighPurpose 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, . . .
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ThesisBeard, Vicki R.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 . . .
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ThesisParamoure, Patricia L.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 . . .
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ThesisFuerstenberg, Theadora L.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 . . .
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ThesisBarrow, EileenPurpose 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 . . .
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ThesisBigue, Christa PalmerPURPOSE 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 . . .
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ThesisSelverston, Mark D.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 . . .
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ThesisSmirnoff, Leslie E.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 . . .
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ThesisGuerrero, Annamarie LeonPURPOSE 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 . . .
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ThesisScher, Naomi B.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 . . .
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ThesisDaunell, KristelThe 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 . . .
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ThesisSolorzano, Marisa E.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 . . .
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ThesisRose, Chelsea E.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 . . .