The region occupied by the Chumash of south-central California were divided into sub-groups who occupied different territories and spoke separate, but related languages. The Cuyama sub-group occupied the Cuyama Valley and the surrounding hills and mou . . .

The focus of this thesis is the reclassification of a sample of 721 bone tools from the Chumash village site of Point Mugu, in Ventura County, California. These bone tools have previously been classified, by morphological analysis, as bone awls. In a . . .

This study synthesizes the known ethnographic, ethnohistorical and archaeological data regarding micaceous soapstone production and distribution, and presents a theoretical framework by which this data can best be understood. The theoretical framework . . .

A forty-foot long Chumash pictograph at Painted Rock on the Carrizo Plains in San Luis Obispo County, California, may be interpreted by viewing the painting as an integrated story explaining the artists' world view. The characters in the pictograph ap . . .

The purpose of this masters thesis is to make available the field notes and unpublished manuscripts of the Rev. Stephen Bowers, an amateur archaeologist who excavated Chumash cemeteries for the Smithsonian Institution in the 1870s and 1880s. The secon . . .

Southern California sites dating between 3000-8000 B.P. are attributed to the "Millingstone Horizon." This span of California prehistory is traditionally described as a period in which highly sedentary populations exploited primarily seeds and shellfi . . .

This research focuses on phenomenological aspects and human behavioral ecology of the Chumash people that lived on Santa Rosa Island, with an emphasis on adaptations to the land that formed the basis of Chumash Island culture. Phenomenology is the men . . .