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 . . .

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 . . .

Purpose: 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 . . .

Purpose: 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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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, . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .