Synopses & Reviews
Reports on excavations at Little Pico Creek in San Luis Obispo County and assesses the temporal components and issues of cultural chronology, subsistence, mobility, and social structure.
Synopsis
Report on two sites in northern coastal San Luis Obispo County, California, provides both a baseline for a synthesis of past data and a direction for future research into the prehistory of the central coast. Effort is made to refine dating for the site and to isolate temporal components by employing radiocarbon data, contemporary shell-bead typological analysis, and an enhanced obsidian source and hydration sample. To relate site findings to research issues of cultural chronology, subsistence, mobility, social structure, and exchange, faunal remains, human osteology, flaked stone residues, and formal artifacts were studies intensively.
About the Author
Terry L. Jones is an archaeologist for the Caltrans Environmental Program in Sacramento, California.
Georgie Waugh is an archaeologist for the Caltrans Environmental Program in Sacramento, California.