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The Annual Report of the

AnthropologicalStudies Center

2016–2017

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ASC OwlsThe ASC owls were the subject of a winning photo that ASC Faunal Analyst Michael

Stoyka took for a campus-wide contest with the theme “A Pair”. A pair of juvenile owls was born to the mating pair in the 2017 season. Sadly, sometime after 27 June one of the pair was hit and killed by a car on Petaluma Hill Road. We received information that a dead raptor was seen next to the road around this time. Stoyka went to check on the carcass and confirm its identity, but the carcass was already gone when he arrived, likely removed by a scavenger or collector. Although he was not able to confirm the death, a second juvenile has not been seen since that date.

Cover photo: Survey crew take a break at top of Saddleback Ranch, from left to right, Chris Ward, Scott McGaughey, Jonas Echols, Mark Selverston, and Kate Erickson Green (photo by Kate Erickson Green, 2017).

Two juvenile owls perched in a eucalyptus tree in the ASC yard (photo by Michael Stoyka).

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THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES CENTER

2016–2017

Sonoma State University1801 E. Cotati Avenue

Building 29Rohnert Park, CA 94928

Printed 7 November 2017

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CONTENTSASC DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT .....................................................................................1

THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES CENTER MISSION STATEMENT .................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................4Annual Report ..........................................................................................................................4Structure, Objectives, and Coordination ..............................................................................4

PERSONNEL ..............................................................................................................................5Professional Consultants .......................................................................................................6Supporting Faculty, Sonoma State University ....................................................................7

Full-time Faculty ...............................................................................................................7Part-time Faculty ...............................................................................................................7

FINANCIAL REPORT ...........................................................................................................8

SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESEARCH GR ANTS .........................................................9ASC Scholarship in Cultural Resources Management .......................................................9David A. Fredrickson Research Grant in Cultural Resources

Management ...................................................................................................................9PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS...............................................................................................10

110 The Embarcadero ............................................................................................................101066 Market Street .................................................................................................................111532 Harrison Street ..............................................................................................................1241 Tehama Street ....................................................................................................................13717 Battery Street Collection ................................................................................................14Amache Digitization Project ................................................................................................15Caltrans District 4 ..................................................................................................................16

Gleason Beach ..................................................................................................................16Marin Narrows ................................................................................................................16Napa River Bridge Replacement Calistoga .................................................................16Tamalpais Junction and Manzanita Park and Ride ADA

Infrastructure ......................................................................................................17Caltrans District 4 Maintenance ..........................................................................................17

Kashaya Pomo Cultural Landscape Project ................................................................17Caltrans Emergency Repairs in Lake and Mendocino Counties ....................................18Caltrans Emergency Repairs at Willits ..............................................................................19Central Subway ......................................................................................................................20Dos Rios ..................................................................................................................................21Environmental Review: City of San Francisco ..................................................................22Eureka Smelter Project and Remediation Monitoring .....................................................22Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria Heritage Management Plan,

Oral History and Ethnohistory Chapter ...................................................................23Archaeological testing and Evaluation of the Fort Barry Rifle Range,

Golden Gate National Recreation Area .....................................................................24Malakoff Diggins: North Bloomfield Historic District Environmental

Restoration Project ......................................................................................................25

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Palm Street Chinatown Collection ......................................................................................26Plumas Eureka State Park .....................................................................................................27Saddleback Ranch Cultural Resources Research Project .................................................28San Joaquin River Environmental Restoration Projects ...................................................29Sea Ranch Fiber Optic Cable Network Monitoring ..........................................................30Soberanes Incident Excavation Project ...............................................................................31Tolowa Ethnographic Overview and Traditional Cultural Property

Inventory .......................................................................................................................32DEPARTMENT REPORTS .................................................................................................33

Interpretive and Outreach Services ....................................................................................332017 SSU Excel Class ......................................................................................................33I Am Because… Exhibition ............................................................................................33Loans for Stockton Chinatown Exhibit ........................................................................34School Tours ....................................................................................................................34

Small Projects Program .........................................................................................................35Faunal Lab ..............................................................................................................................36

San Francisco Central Subway Project .........................................................................36110 Embarcadero, San Francisco ...................................................................................36Upper Jamison Creek .....................................................................................................36Tolay Lake, Sonoma County Regional Parks, Petaluma ...........................................36Point Reyes National Seashore......................................................................................36

GIS Lab ....................................................................................................................................37Oral History Program ...........................................................................................................38

INTERNSHIPS .......................................................................................................................39Collections Management Internship (Anth 597) ...............................................................39Geographic Information Systems in Collection Management Internship

(Anth 596) ......................................................................................................................39Geographic Information Systems in Cultural Resource Management

Internship (Anth 596) ...................................................................................................39Site Survey Internship (Anth 596A) ....................................................................................40

DAVID A. FREDRICKSON ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS FACILIT Y ..........................................41Mission and Principles ..........................................................................................................41

Mission .............................................................................................................................41Goals and Principles .......................................................................................................41The Collections Endowment .........................................................................................41

David A. Fredrickson Archaeological Collections Facility ..............................................42Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Compliance

(NAGPRA) .....................................................................................................................43Collections Status ............................................................................................................43

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GR ADUATES’ CORNER .....................................................................................................44CRM Master’s Thesis Defenses ............................................................................................44

Fall 2016 Thesis Defenses ...............................................................................................44Spring 2017 Thesis Defenses..........................................................................................44

37th Annual Graduate Proseminar Symposium, Department of Anthropology, December 2016 ...................................................................................44

Presentation Abstracts ....................................................................................................44Graduate Student Activities .................................................................................................46

Internships .......................................................................................................................46Volunteer Activities ........................................................................................................46Professional Meeting Presentations .............................................................................46

STAFF PRESENTATIONS .................................................................................................49

STAFF PARTICIPATIONS, RESEARCH, AND TR AINING COURSES .....................................................................................51

PUBLICATIONS .....................................................................................................................51

CULTUR AL RESOURCES STUDY REPORTS .........................................................52

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FIGURES 1. Cigar box recovered during excavation at 110 The Embarcadero ...............................10 2. 1066 Market Street project area overlaid on 1899 Sanborn Fire

Insurance map ....................................................................................................................11 3. Artifacts found during work at 1532 Harrison Street ...................................................12 4. Carved bone seal found during excavation at 41 Tehama Street ................................13 5. Artifacts from the 717 Battery Street / CA-SFR-186H collection ..................................14 6. SSU President Dr. Judy Sakaki and Henry Kaku at the Amache

exhibit reception ................................................................................................................15 7. Toshie Morita looking at the interactive tag display in the Amache

exhibit ..................................................................................................................................15 8. Cache of artifacts found during construction monitoring for the

Napa River Bridge Replacement Project .........................................................................16 9. Members of the Kashaya Pomo tribe, Caltrans, and the

Anthropological Studies Center receive the Governor’s Historic Preservation Award in Sacramento, California .............................................................17

10. Slumping on State Route 175 in Lake County after heavy rains .................................18 11. Slope stabilization on the Willits slide above Highway 101 in

Mendocino County ............................................................................................................19 12. Elk antler recovered from CA-SFR-175 ...........................................................................20 13. Slumping below State Route 162, near Dos Rios ..........................................................21 14. A historic-period wall identified during remediation work in Eureka,

Nevada ................................................................................................................................22 15. Kathleen Smith pointing out plants during a field interview .....................................23 16. Unfired .45-caliber handgun cartridge recovered from the Fort Barry

Rifle Range ..........................................................................................................................24 17. Backstop Berm Trench 2 at the Fort Barry Rifle Range ................................................24 18. Malakoff Diggins survey crew ........................................................................................25 19. Lauren Carriere and Caitlin Chang examine an artifact from the

Palm Street Chinatown Collection ..................................................................................26 20. Lacey Klopp excavating at Plumas Eureka State Park ..................................................27 21. Scott McGaughey and Mark Selverston recording a bedrock mortar

at Saddleback Ranch ..........................................................................................................28 22. Scott McGaughey and Michael Konzak surveying a breach along the

Three Amigos Levee .........................................................................................................29 23. Plowing to bury main-line cable along Bluff Reach .....................................................30 24. ASC archaeologist Michael Stoyka excavating at CA-MNT-1504 ...............................31 25. The recently restored trail to Shin-yvslh-sri, “The Summer Place” .............................32 26. EXCEL students washing artifacts outside the ASC lab ..............................................33 27. Part of the “I Am Because . . .” exhibit ............................................................................34 28. Exhibit flyer for “Washington Street: The Heart and Soul of Stockton

Chinatown” ........................................................................................................................34

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29. ASC Staff Archaeologist Kate Green collecting GPS survey points for the Montesol Ranch Project ..............................................................................................35

30. Scott McGaughey using a GPS unit to record a bedrock mortar at Saddleback Ranch ..............................................................................................................37

31. Kenneth Kitajima ...............................................................................................................38 32. Michael Konzak explains how to operate the total station to interns

Erica Thompson, Scott McGaughey, and Robert Watson .............................................40 33. Kate Green with site survey interns at the Kashia Coastal Reserve ..........................40 34. A scanned page of field documents associated with a collection

excavated in the early 1960s .............................................................................................42 35. Projectile points from non-NAGPRA archaeological collections

housed at the ACF .............................................................................................................43 36. Matriculated and current SSU graduate students from the CRM

program at the Society for California Archaeology meeting in March 2017 ......................................................................................................................................47

37. Ryan Poska explaining to a visitor how Lidar can be used to study historical landscapes .........................................................................................................48

38. Lauren Carriere talking with a guest about the Palm Street Chinatown Collection ............................................................................................................................48

39. ASC archaeologist Whitney McClellan with CRM graduate students Madison Long, Erica Thompson, Lauren Carriere, and Ryan Poska .........................50

FIGURES, continued

TABLES 1. ASC Activities 2016–2017 ....................................................................................................1 2. Summary of Cultural Resources Awards.........................................................................8

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ASC DIRECTOR’S STATEMENTIn some ways it is difficult to imagine that an entire year has passed since I came to

Sonoma State. In other ways, it seems like a lifetime ago. In the short time since Fall Semester 2016, we have witnessed a divisive national election, an even more fractious White House, and subsequent shifts in federal policies that continue to have far-reaching ramifications. Meanwhile, political and social dialogues on both the national and international scenes have exploded in a way that we have not seen in decades. If we thought that we lived in a time of complacency and political inaction, we are now being disabused of that notion nearly every day. Where these events will take us in the future is still unknown, but at the ASC we affirm our commitment to support the entire SSU and CSU community in our stance against discrimination and intolerance.

From the perspective of our small place in the broad community of Cultural Resources Management (CRM), we will work to meet new challenges head-on and to operate within the changing regulatory environment as we always have. This entails thinking outside the box and exploring new ideas and opportunities. Our Director Emeritus, Adrian Praetzellis, was amazingly generous in providing a guiding hand during the leadership transition. He took the reins in implementing some of our key initiatives this past year, including joining the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Network. The CESU is a consortium of federal agencies, Native American tribes, institutions, state and local governments, nongovernmental organizations, and other partners organized as a platform to support interdisciplinary research, share technical expertise, and expand the goals of education. The ASC spearheaded this agreement for SSU, but many other disciplines within our community can also participate. We look forward to developing interdisciplinary partnerships with many of our colleagues using our CESU contract.

In the last year, we have continued to support our core educational mission by directing graduate and undergraduate student internships, including small projects administration, archaeological collections management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications in collections management, GIS applications in CRM, and archaeological site survey. Student interns acquired a broad range of experiences, and several have moved into permanent positions at the ASC. Our Archaeological Collections Endowment remains in excess of $1.2 million dollars, and we are exploring opportunities to further expand our work in the area of curation, interpretation, and community engagement. This past year, our CRM projects and field efforts were spread across Northern and Central California, and east to Nevada. Our work has supported Caltrans, CAL FIRE,

Table 1. ASC Activities 2016–2017

Fiscal Year Small Projects

Large Projects

Total Awards

Cumulative Collections Endowment

2013–2014 78,132 1,862,276 1,940,408 1,033,843 2014–2015 111,737 2,626,354 2,738,091 1,098,251

2015–2016 $113,975 $2,147,328 $2,261,303 $1,250,893

2016–2017 $107,525 $2,071,528 $2,179,093 $1,294,893

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California State Parks, PG&E, the BLM, the NPS, and the City of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, among others.

For me, this year has passed quickly, and I look forward to many more to come. The ASC is an exceptional institution staffed by extraordinary people, and we hope to demonstrate that with this brief look at our year in review.

Thanks to Sandra Konzak and Maria Ribeiro who assembled this annual report with contributions by many ASC staff members.

Tom Whitley ASC Director

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THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES CENTER MISSION STATEMENT

“Education, Research, and Public Service”

The Anthropological Studies Center undertakes activities that benefit the students of Sonoma State University, scholarship in the field of historic preservation, and the community at large. The Center fulfills its threefold mission in education, research, and public service by:

Creating the opportunity for SSU students to learn real-world skills in historic preservation through the Center’s professional apprenticeship program;

Maintaining an Archaeological Collections Facility in which hundreds of thousands of artifacts are available for students and scholars to study; and

Operating an Office of Interpretive and Outreach Services, which provides the public with information about archaeology and historic preservation.

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INTRODUCTION

ANNUAL REPORTThe following pages report the operation of the Anthropological Studies Center

during the fiscal year of 1 July 2016 through 30 June 2017. They indicate staffing, summarize significant activities in each component facility, list and describe major cultural resources contracts, and provide summary totals for the numerous minor projects undertaken during the year. The report notes non-contract research, such as participation by students, staff, and supporting faculty in the academic and professional communities in presentations, publications and reports, consulting work, internships, honors, and in-house activities. It also describes the ASC’s community service.

STRUCTURE, OBJECTIVES, AND COORDINATIONThe Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) is composed of the Cultural Resources

Facility (CRF), the David A. Fredrickson Archaeological Collections Facility (ACF), and the Office of Interpretive and Outreach Services (IOS). These three parts of the ASC fulfill complementary functions:

• The Cultural Resources Facility works on contract to federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as for private organizations and individuals. It contributes to the cost of operating the other two parts of the ASC, helps to preserve and study the cultural heritage of the region and beyond, and provides real-world CRM experiences for students.

• The David A. Fredrickson Archaeological Collections Facility houses archaeological materials from northern California as a public service and for scholarly research. The Collections Endowment Fund, set up in 1993 to provide for the long-term support of these artifacts, has already reached $ 1,294,893.41.

• The Office of Interpretive and Outreach Services interprets archaeology, history, and the ethnography of native peoples of California to the general public by means of events, pamphlets, museum displays, videos, and presentations to school groups.

Educational objectives of the ASC, its professional involvement, and the relationship of the ASC to the Department of Anthropology, have been outlined in previous annual reports.

ASC is an office of Sonoma State University’s School of Social Science.

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PERSONNELStaffing of Anthropological Studies Center facilities during fiscal year 2016–2017 is

summarized below.

Director: Tom Whitley

Associate Director: Mary Praetzellis

Director Emeritus: Adrian Praetzellis

Business Manager: Giovanna Rossetti

Administrative Assistant: Doshia Dodd,

Administration/Archaeologist: Whitney McClellan

Staff Historical Archaeologist: Mark Walker

Staff Archaeologists: Michael Meyer, Michael Newland, Sandra Konzak, Michael Konzak, Bryan Mischke, Mark Selverston, Kate Green, Dana Ogo Shew

Staff Editor/Archaeologist: Bruce Owen

Staff Oral Historian/Archaeologist and Interpretive Specialist: Dana Ogo Shew

Native American Liaison: Michael Newland

Graduate Student Liaison: Kate Green

Archaeological Collections Manager/Laboratory Manager: Sandra Konzak

NAGPRA Coordinator: Sandra Konzak

Faunal Analyst/Archaeological Specialist: Michael Stoyka

GIS/Archaeological Specialists: Michael Konzak, Bryan Mischke

Computer Graphics and Desktop Publishing Specialist: Maria Ribeiro

Computer Coordinators: Nelson Thompson, Maria Ribeiro

Web Page Coordinator: Maria Ribeiro

Consulting Forensic Anthropologist: Alexis Boutin

Field/Laboratory/Research Staff: Lauren Carriere, Caitlin Chang, Brian Denham, Doshia Dodd, Samantha Dollinger, Whitney McClellan, Scott McGaughey, Ryan Poska, Erica Thompson, Nelson Thompson, Kathleen Thorne, Chris Ward, Robert Watson

Interns: Jaycob Barros, Stephanie Bertagnole, Chelsie Brokenshire, Philip Chilcote, Samantha Dollinger, Jason Field, Abby Gomes, Sara Hepburn, Ceri Larking, Laurel Lueders, Scott McGaughey, Lorin Smith Jr., Erica Thompson, Robert Watson and Bryce Williams.

Volunteer: Kathy Curley

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PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANTS ExcavationShirley’s Backhoe ServiceGeoarchaeological SupportGregg Drilling &TestingNative American ConcernsDavid CarrioAbreanna GomesCharles JohnsonWayde McCloudOtis ParrishViolet Parrish ChappellIsaac RiosVincent SalsedoLorin Smith, Jr.Lorin Smith, Sr.Nick TiponFederated Indians of Graton RancheriaKashia Band of Pomo Indians of Stewarts Point RancheriaMiddletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians of CaliforniaMishewal Wappo TribeRound Valley Indian TribesObsidian Hydration AnalysisOriger’s Obsidian LabObsidian Sourcing/XRF AnalysesRichard Hughes/Geochemical Research LabPollen/Starch/Protein AnalysisPaleoresearchRadiocarbon DatingBeta Analytic

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SUPPORTING FACULTY, SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITYChair of Anthropology: Margaret Purser

Full-time FacultyAlexis Boutin (PhD University of Pennsylvania 2008; Assistant Professor) Biological

Anthropology, human skeletal biology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, narrative interpretations of gender and identity; ancient Near East, eastern Mediterranean, Persian gulf. [email protected]

Karin Enstam Jaffe (PhD University of California Davis 2002; Professor) Biological anthropology, primate behavioral ecology, anti-predator behavior of primates, vervet (Cercopithecus aethiops) and patas (Erythrocebus patas) monkeys; Africa. [email protected]

Margaret Purser (PhD University of California Berkeley 1987; Professor) Historical archaeology, gender studies, archaeological theory, material culture studies; Western US, the Pacific. [email protected]

Richard J. Senghas (PhD University of Rochester 1997; Professor) Linguistic anthropology, linguistics of signed and spoken languages, social anthropology, Deaf studies; Nicaragua, North America. [email protected]

Thomas G. Whitley (PhD, University of Pittsburgh 2000; Professor; Director Anthropological Studies Center) Applications of GIS and spatial analysis, particularly in the areas of interpreting cognitive landscapes, remote sensing, human ecology, complex socio-economic simulations and predictive modeling; cultural resource management; industrial archaeology; contact and colonialism; perishables analysis; archaeology of labor; mining landscapes. [email protected]

John D. Wingard (PhD Pennsylvania State University 1992; Professor) Ecological and economic anthropology, resource management, applied anthropology, archaeology, tourism, capitalism; Mesoamerica, Oceania, North America. [email protected]

Part-time FacultyStacey DeShazo (MA Savanah College of Art and Design; Lecturer). stacey@evans-

deshazo.com

Andriana Foiles Sifuentes (PhD University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2014; Lecturer) Social Justice, political economy, inequality, aging, immigration, retirees, tourism, spatiality, urban education, critical pedagogy. [email protected]

Bruce D. Owen (PhD University of California Los Angeles; Lecturer; Anthropological Studies Center Staff Editor) Archaeology, Andes, Tiwanaku, Wari, Inka, Late Intermediate Period, expansion and collapse of complex societies, population movements and ethnic group relationships, pre-Columbian metals, pre-Columbian ceramics, early agriculture, radiocarbon methods, computer and statistical methods. [email protected]

Joseph Reti (PhD Rutgers University 2013; Lecturer). [email protected]

Carolyn A. Smith (PhD University of California Berkeley 2016; Lecturer). [email protected]

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Carlos Torres (PhD University of Colorado Boulder 2010; Lecturer) Social movements, media anthropology, communication and culture, Maya studies, media production, Latin American studies. [email protected]

FINANCIAL REPORTDuring the fiscal year of 1 July 2016 through 30 June 2017, ASC continued or

completed work on projects undertaken in previous years. The ASC also became involved in a variety of new projects. The new major and minor contracts awarded during the fiscal year are summarized in Table 2. Many of the major contracts are described in the Project Descriptions section of this report.

Table 2. Summary of Cultural Resources Awards

Number Amount

Minor 26 $ 107,525 Major 30 $ 2,071,568 Total 56 $ 2,179,093

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SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTSASC staff funds a scholarship and a research grant awarded to individuals who

are pursuing education or independent research in the field of Cultural Resources Management. The support for these awards comes from the ASC Fund, established in 1992, which has been steadily growing through voluntary payroll deductions from staff and donations from alumni and other friends of the ASC. Over the years, nearly $25,000 has been distributed to ASC staff and SSU students.

ASC SCHOLARSHIP IN CULTURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

The ASC Scholarship, awarded annually to a first-year graduate student in the CRM master’s program, promotes interest in CRM as an academic discipline and a career choice. We hope that larger awards or multiple scholarships will be possible in the future. The scholarship, based on academic ability, is administered through the University’s scholarship office. This year scholarships were awarded to Lauren Carriere, Samantha Dollinger, and Erica Thompson.

DAVID A. FREDRICKSON RESEARCH GRANT IN CULTURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

These grants assist researchers affiliated with the ASC—permanent or part-time staff, interns, or volunteers—by granting money to complete specific aspects of significant, ongoing CRM research. The award is named in honor of David A. Fredrickson, Director of the ASC from its founding in 1974 to 1992, a major figure in California prehistoric archaeology and a leader in the development of Cultural Resources Management nationwide.

Grant funds have helped cover the costs of creating outreach materials, such as lesson plans or museum displays; fees for specialist’s studies or production of technical graphics; and expenses of publishing important research. Research based on ASC collections is encouraged. Research may involve one or more subdisciplines of CRM—including architectural history, field or laboratory research in prehistoric or historical archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, and oral history—or may be studies of methods, standards, and conduct of CRM itself. One or more $500 – $1,500 research grants may be awarded annually, depending on available funds and interest.

There were no applicants for the grant this year.

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PROJECT DESCRIPTIONSThis section describes a sampling of this year’s larger ASC projects; it is not a

complete listing.

110 THE EMBARCADEROClient: The Commonwealth ClubLocation: San Francisco, California

ASC prepared a Final Archaeological Resources and Data Recovery Report for 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, based on analysis of material recovered during construction monitoring at the end of 2015. Construction work for the Commonwealth Club’s new elevator involved digging through the basement floor and historic fill layers into the former bay floor. Artifacts that had been thrown off the piers of this former water lot were recovered during this work. These items included tablewares, bottles, faunal bone, shoes, and personal items. The analysis and report shed light on life on the San Francisco waterfront between the mid-1850s and about 1870.

Figure 1. Cigar box recovered during excavation at 110 The Embarcadero (ASC photo).

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1066 MARKET STREETClient: Shorenstein PropertiesLocation: San Francisco, California

ASC prepared an Archaeological Testing Plan for 1066 Market Street, San Francisco. The lot sits about 25 feet above an old marsh and has high potential for buried prehistoric deposits. Due to the great depth, archaeological monitoring is likely to occur prior to testing.

Figure 2. 1066 Market Street project area overlaid on 1899 Sanborn Fire Insurance map (ASC graphic).

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1532 HARRISON STREETClient: Build Inc.Location: San Francisco, California

ASC prepared an Archaeological Testing Plan and conducted Geoprobe and backhoe testing at 1532 Harrison Street. The testing, to determine the presence or absence of both prehistoric and historic-era resources, was hampered by a high water table and shifting sands. Monitoring will continue next year.

Figure 3. Artifacts found during work at 1532 Harrison Street (ASC photo 2016).

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41 TEHAMA STREETClient: 41 Tehama, LPLocation: San Francisco, California

ASC’s excavations at 41 Tehama Street in fiscal year 2014–2015 revealed archaeological remains from the Gold Rush and later eras. This year, we completed a draft Final Archaeological Resources Report and Data Recovery Report that describes the technical aspects of the excavations and laboratory processing and analyzes and interprets the four archaeological features found to be eligible to the California Register of Historical Resources—one historic-period landscape feature, and three historic-period privies.

The landscape feature was determined to be a footpath constructed during the Gold Rush period, formed from the redeposited soils of a prehistoric midden. The contents of the three privies were associated with immigrant families living at the site in the 1870s, whose social status occupied a liminal space between the working class and middle classes. Historical documents relate how members of each family experienced shifts in personal fortune that were tied to shifts in professional occupation and social standing. The interpretation of the privy deposits discusses Victorian values, class identity, and consumerism as reflected by material culture, exploring the strategies used by those families to maintain their class positions under difficult and changing conditions, successfully or unsuccessfully.

The 41 Tehama collection will be permanently curated at the David A. Frederickson Archaeological Collections Facility, where it and numerous other South of Market archaeological collections are available for the use of historians and archaeologists. These collections are fabulous research sources whose potential will be further explored in the decades to come.

Figure 4. Carved bone seal found during excavation at 41 Tehama Street (ASC photo, 2017).

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717 BATTERY STREET COLLECTIONClient: MBX PartnersLocation: San Francisco, California

In 2015, ASC received approximately 170 boxes of artifacts and dozens of oversize items recovered from excavations at CA-SFR-186H in San Francisco, California for the 717 Battery Street Project, which involved renovation of the existing 1907 Musto Building and new construction within the Musto Building Plaza. The project site is situated at the edge of historic-period Thompson’s Cove on San Francisco Bay. The collection contains artifacts from 25 cultural features dating to the mid- to late-19th century, including materials that appear to date to the earliest periods of San Francisco’s development as a city.

During this fiscal year, ASC completed a multi-year endeavor of preparing the collection for curation, photo-documenting perishable items, upgrading packaging materials, and selecting artifacts for potential use in interpretive displays. The collection will be permanently curated at the David A. Fredrickson Archaeological Collections Facility.

Figure 5. Artifacts from the 717 Battery Street / CA-SFR-186H collection (ASC photo, 2017).

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AMACHE DIGITIZATION PROJECTClient: National Endowment for the HumanitiesLocation: Sonoma County, California

At the beginning of 2016, the ASC was awarded a Common Heritage grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the Amache Digitization Project, spearheaded by ASC’s oral historian, Dana Ogo Shew. The project focused on digitizing photographs, objects, documents, and memories to preserve and share the experiences of WWII Japanese American internment at Colorado’s internment camp, Amache. During the first part of the project, a Day of Digitization was held at the Enmanji Buddhist Temple in Sebastopol with the help of the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League. Community members

brought their Amache-related items to be photographed or scanned. Nearly 200 objects were digitized during this event.

Dana organized an exhibit at the Sonoma State Library Art Gallery, “Creativity Unconfined: Life in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp,” to highlight the objects that were discovered during the project’s digitization phase. It was open to the public during Fall 2016. The well-attended opening reception featured presentations that included Amache descendants as well as Sonoma State University President Dr. Judy Sakaki.

The digital database created through this project will soon be available to the public through the Sonoma State University Library Special Collections and the CSU-wide Japanese American Digitization Project website.

Figure 6. Toshie Morita looking at the interactive tag display in the Amache exhibit (photo courtesy of Nancy Ukai).

Figure 6. SSU President Dr. Judy Sakaki and Henry Kaku at the Amache exhibit reception (photo courtesy of Nicolas Grizzle, SSU News Center).

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CALTRANS DISTRICT 4Client: CaltransLocation: Various

Gleason BeachIn 2016, the ASC conducted monitoring for road and bluff stabilization on State

Route 1 at Gleason Beach between Bodega Bay and Jenner. Monitoring was primarily conducted by Michael Stoyka, with additional monitoring by Bryan Mischke and Michael Newland. The project area included one previously recorded site, CA-SON-347. Midden soils from the site were observed in 21 of the 31 bore holes drilled for stabilization. Tribal monitors from both the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians were present.

Marin NarrowsMonitoring continued during construction of a new bridge over San Antonio Creek

at the Marin-Sonoma county line. Widening of State Route 101 in the Narrows is a multi-year endeavor. Monitoring of grading, excavation for abutments, and augering for bridge supports uncovered a few historic artifacts in the creek. Monitoring of adjacent grading will resume once the bridge is completed.

Napa River Bridge Replacement CalistogaCaltrans is replacing the bridge over the Napa River on State Route 29 in downtown

Calistoga. The north end of the bridge project footprint intersects a previously recorded site, CA-NAP-1128/H. Utility relocation work in 2016 exposed a portion of the site that included a flaked-stone processing area marked by flakes, bifaces, projectile points, and a cache that contained large obsidian points, bifaces, cores, and a piece of petrified wood. Two column samples were collected to a depth of 1.4 meters. Monitoring will resume once the river recedes in 2017.

Figure 7. Cache of artifacts found during construction monitoring for the Napa River Bridge Replacement Project (ASC photo, 2016).

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Tamalpais Junction and Manzanita Park and Ride ADA Infrastructure

In 2016, ASC staff archaeologist Michael Meyer and Jennifer Blake of Caltrans conducted Geoprobe testing at Tamalpais Junction and the Manzanita Park and Ride in preparation for Americans with Disabilities Act improvements at those locations. Site CA-MRN-7 had originally been mapped at Tamalpais Junction. A subsequent survey in 1993 had revised its location to fall outside the project area, but the potential remained for deeply buried deposits to extend into the project area. ASC’s 2016 work included one core within the project area that confirmed the absence of deeply buried cultural deposits, plus several additional cores in and around the revised boundaries of CA-MRN-5/H at the Manzanita Park and Ride. No cultural deposits were identified at those locations.

CALTRANS DISTRICT 4 MAINTENANCEClient: Caltrans District 4Location: Various Bay Area counties, California

ASC has an On-call Agreement with Caltrans District 4 Division of Maintenance. A variety of archaeological services have been provided under this agreement, including construction monitoring, Native American coordination, GIS, report writing, records searches, and other studies.

Kashaya Pomo Cultural Landscape ProjectWork continues on the GIS portion of the Kashaya Pomo Cultural Landscape Project

An earlier, more robust phase of this project received the Governor’s Historic Preservation Award in 2016.

Figure 9. Members of the Kashaya Pomo tribe, Caltrans, and the Anthropological Studies Center receive the Governor’s Historic Preservation Award in Sacramento, California (photo by Brian Baer, courtesy of California State Parks).

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CALTRANS EMERGENCY REPAIRS IN LAKE AND MENDOCINO COUNTIESClient: Granite ConstructionLocation: Lake County and Mendocino County

ASC monitored a series of emergency repairs for Caltrans on State Routes 175 and 29 in Lake County, and State Route 1 in Mendocino County. The repairs were needed after heavy rains over the winter undermined roads, leading to a sinkhole on Route 29 and road slumping on Route 175. The rains also required the replacement of a culvert on Route 175, and two culverts on Route 1, just north of Elk on the Mendocino Coast.

Coordinating with local Tribes (Middletown Rancheria in Lake County and the Manchester Band of Pomo Indians in Mendocino County), ASC archaeologists monitored ground-disturbing work to ensure that no cultural resources were disturbed by the repair work. ASC archaeologists and the tribal representative for the Manchester Band conducted a subsurface survey at the second culvert location prior to the construction work. Excavation had not started at the second location by the end of fiscal year 2016–2017.

Monitoring at these locations did not identify any cultural resources.

Figure 10. Slumping on State Route 175 in Lake County after heavy rains (ASC photo, 2017).

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CALTRANS EMERGENCY REPAIRS AT WILLITS Client: Argonaut ConstructorsLocation: Mendocino County

Heavy rains over the winter caused a slope overlooking Highway 101, just south of Willits in Mendocino County, to slump, requiring stabilization. As the top of the slope and the planned spoil-disposal area had the potential for cultural resources, an ASC archaeologist and tribal representatives from the Sherwood Valley and the Coyote Valley Bands of Pomo Indians conducted a subsurface survey of those areas. The survey identified isolated lithic flakes in both locations, but not in sufficient density to be designated a site.

Figure 11. Slope stabilization on the Willits slide above Highway 101 in Mendocino County (ASC photo, 2017).

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CENTRAL SUBWAYClient: Central Subway PartnershipLocation: San Francisco, California

The San Francisco Metropolitan Transit Authority is constructing the Central Subway from King Street, in the South of Market area, to Chinatown. The undertaking will eventually comprise several miles of underground tunnels, one surface station, three subway facilities, and support facilities. A significant archaeological discovery made during the course of the project was the presence of an intact prehistoric midden deposit, CA-SFR-175, beneath Fourth Street near the Moscone Center. This year, ASC completed lab work, analysis, and write-up for the data-recovery excavations in the Yerba Buena/Moscone Center (YBM) sector of CA-SFR-175. Our analysis of the deposit suggests that people visited the site for feasting and probably ceremonial activities at nearby CA-SFR-114 between about cal C.E. 400 and 900. This work complements ASC’s previous data-recovery excavations in the Utilities 1 sector of the same site and provides insights into prehistoric social complexity and exchange of prepared bulk foods such as processed fish; the geomorphological complexity of the shifting sand-dune environment of the area; possible earlier occupations nearby in the dunes; and regional population decline around the onset of the Medieval Climatic Anomaly in the late cal C.E. 800s.

Figure 12. Elk antler recovered from CA-SFR-175 (ASC photo).

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DOS RIOSClient: Wylatti ConstructionLocation: Mendocino County

Because of heavy rains over the winter, Caltrans had to replace a culvert on State Route 162, and to stabilize a slope that had slumped and was undercutting the road at a different location. An ASC archaeologist and representatives from the Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation monitored ground-disturbing work at both locations.

No cultural resources were identified at either location.

Figure 13. Slumping below State Route 162, near Dos Rios (ASC photo, 2017).

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ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW: CITY OF SAN FRANCISCOClient: City of San Francisco, Planning DepartmentLocation: Central and Northern California

Since 2007, ASC has acted as Environmental Review staff for the City of San Francisco Public Utility Commission’s (PUC) $4.3 billion Water System Improvement Program as well as all PUC projects outside the City. This has involved reviewing environmental documents and ensuring that projects comply with the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act.

Adrian Praetzellis reviewed 34 documents during this fiscal year. Activities included reviewing sections of Environmental Impact Reports and Mitigated Negative Declarations for PUC projects throughout Northern California as well as ensuring that archaeological discoveries made during construction were treated appropriately. This work will continue in the coming fiscal year.

EUREKA SMELTER PROJECT AND REMEDIATION MONITORINGClient: U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA)Location: Eureka, Nevada

The ASC continued for a fourth year to monitor EPA remediation efforts in the Eureka Historic District, a National Register Historic District in the Town of Eureka, Nevada. The town’s boom period lasted from about 1870 to 1885, with numerous mills and smelters processing silver ore. Smelting operations finally ceased in 1910 after a flood. Contamination from the smelter waste, primarily lead and arsenic, is found throughout the town.

The EPA is currently cleaning residential lots with the highest concentrations, and those where children reside. The cleaning process involves digging up the contaminated soil, potentially disturbing archaeological resources. ASC staff Mark Walker, Michael Meyer, Michael Stoyka and Michael Konzak have surveyed and reported to the Nevada SHPO on over 150 parcels, identified over 50 archaeological resources, and written five National Register evaluations over the past four field seasons.

Figure 14. A historic-period wall identified during remediation work in Eureka, Nevada (ASC photo, 2017)

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Remediation is anticipated to continue into September of 2017, and for an additional two years after that. The work is being conducted under a Finding of No Adverse Effect with conditions negotiated by ASC with the Nevada State Historic Preservation Officer in 2013.

FEDERATED INDIANS OF GRATON RANCHERIA HERITAGE MANAGEMENT PLAN, ORAL HISTORY AND ETHNOHISTORY CHAPTERClient: Caltrans, District 4Location: Sonoma County, California

The ASC, in collaboration with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (FIGR), is working on an oral history and ethnohistory project that will contribute to a Caltrans-funded Heritage Management Plan being prepared by Far Western.

ASC oral historian Dana Ogo Shew, together with FIGR Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Buffy McQuillen, Sacred Sites Committee Chair Peter Nelson, and Tribal Secretary Melissa Elgin, has interviewed tribal elders and other members of the tribal community about their stories, memories, and knowledge of important plant resources and uses within their tribal territory, with specific attention paid to resource locations near roads and highways maintained by Caltrans. The information gained from these newly collected oral histories is synthesized with information from earlier oral histories and previous ethnographic resources in a chapter on oral history and ethnohistory to be included in the Heritage Management Plan. This chapter provides an overview of tribal citizen experiences and memories, and will provide context for the management plans and protocols presented in the completed plan.

Figuer 15. Kathleen Smith pointing out plants during a field interview (photo courtesy of Peter Nelson).

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL TESTING AND EVALUATION OF THE FORT BARRY RIFLE RANGE, GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION AREAClient: National Park ServiceLocation: Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Marin County, California

ASC conducted archaeological testing and evaluation of the Fort Barry Rifle Range (FBRR), in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The FBRR is a former US Army small-arms firing range. It was initially constructed in 1904 and was used through the mid-1970s before being de-commissioned. The archaeological project is part of a planned hazardous-materials remediation effort intended to remove soil with high levels of lead. The report addresses specific questions regarding the FBRR’s eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places; its potential as a contributing historical-archaeological element to the Forts Baker, Barry, and Cronkhite Historic District; the possible presence of as-yet undiscovered prehistoric components; and recommendations for public interpretation of the property. The study included excavation of six backhoe trenches in the target and firing berms of the rifle range, as well as surface survey for archaeological materials. The results suggested that fill deposits at the site are far deeper than had been suspected, that the remains of bullets recovered from the target backstops were highly fragmented and not very diagnostic, and that there is evidence to suggest differential firing patterns across the range reflecting the use of old firearms and corresponding surplus ammunition from both World Wars.

Figure 16. Unfired .45-caliber handgun cartridge recovered from the Fort Barry Rifle Range (ASC photo, 2017).

Figure 17. Backstop Berm Trench 2 at the Fort Barry Rifle Range (ASC photo, 2017).

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MALAKOFF DIGGINS: NORTH BLOOMFIELD HISTORIC DISTRICT ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION PROJECT Client: Department of Parks and RecreationLocation: State Park, Nevada County, California

ASC continued its third year of archaeological inventory work at Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park with additional field survey and ongoing preparation of site records. California Department of Parks and Recreation is inventorying the entire 5,000-acre Park ahead of a large restoration project under consideration that may have impacts to the Historic District’s cultural resources. The park is famous for its well-known Malakoff Hydraulic Mine Complex of the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company. It is the best-known hydraulic mine in the world, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Humbug Diggins – North Bloomfield Historic District. Several other large hydraulic mines and many smaller ventures are scattered throughout the Park, where the mining settlements of North Bloomfield (originally known as Humbug City), Lake City, and Derbec, as well as forgotten mine camps, cabins, ditches, roads, and prospects form a complex spatial, temporal, and functional pattern in this one-of-a-kind mining landscape. The park is also rich in evidence of its prehistory, including several sites dating back to the Middle Archaic period, as well as the remains of the historic-era Native American neighborhood known as the North Bloomfield Campoodie. Survey efforts will continue into the next fiscal year of 2017–2018.

Figure 18. Malakoff Diggins survey crew: Mark Selverston, Robert Watson, Scott McGaughey, Ryan Poska, Bryan Mischke, and Chris Ward (ASC photo, 2017).

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PALM STREET CHINATOWN COLLECTIONClient: City of San Luis ObispoLocation: San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California

In 2014, ASC received more than 220 boxes of artifacts associated with the Palm Street Chinatown Site (CA-SLO-64H) in San Luis Obispo, California, from the City of San Luis Obispo. Since then, ASC staff and student employees have spent hundreds of hours cleaning, organizing, and repackaging the collection in preparation for final curation at the San Luis Obispo County Archaeological Society (SLOCAS) facility – a process that has finally been completed this year!

Before the materials are returned to SLOCAS, graduate students Lauren Carriere and Caitlin Chang will complete thesis projects using materials in the collection. Lauren’s thesis focuses on creating site-interpretation products for the City of San Luis Obispo, including a wayside sign to be installed near the site at the corner of Palm and Morro Streets. Lauren is working with ASC Interpretive Specialist Dana Ogo Shew on the design and production of the sign.

Caitlin’s thesis focuses on the foodways of the Palm Street Chinatown’s residents, exploring the relationship between food, immigration, and ethnic identity. Caitlin has analyzed over 2,000 faunal remains, concentrating on butchering practices and meat preferences. Her research incorporates oral histories from the families who lived in the Palm Street Chinatown into her interpretation of how the residents used food as a way to negotiate their lives as Chinese Americans in the early 20th century. ASC Faunal Analyst Michael Stoyka has assisted Caitlin in her analysis.

Figure 19. Lauren Carriere and Caitlin Chang examine an artifact from the Palm Street Chinatown Collection (ASC Photo, 2016).

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PLUMAS EUREKA STATE PARKClient: California Department of Parks and RecreationLocation: Blairsden-Graeagle, Plumas County, California

ASC conducted Phase 2 testing at CA-PLU-3836/H, in the Upper Jamison Creek Campground at Plumas Eureka State Park, in July 2016 at the request of the California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR). In 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had reported high levels of arsenic in the area within CA-PLU-3836/H. At that time, ASC recorded the entire site and conducted subsurface testing in select areas. This multicomponent site consists of four loci spread out across the campground. The prehistoric component is characterized by basalt tools and flakes, obsidian projectile points and flakes, and bedrock milling features. The site is thought to have been used by Native Americans for the last 3,000 years, based on point typology and obsidian hydration results. The site is in Mountain or Northeastern Maidu territory. The historic-era component includes both domestic and industrial items left behind by the Gold Rush-era Rough and Ready mine camp. The company of 40 miners dug into the nearby mountain and raised an early stamp mill in the mid-1850s.

Denise Jaffke, DPR Associate State Archaeologist, joined the ASC crew to process artifacts at an on-site field lab. Artifacts recovered from the site include basalt tools and flakes, an obsidian projectile point, a clay hand-painted marble, and the spout of a black-powder flask for a muzzle loader. Daily lunchtime presentations were given to the excited campers who returned daily to learn about new discoveries.

Figure 20. Lacey Klopp excavating at Plumas Eureka State Park (ASC photo, 2016.)

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SADDLEBACK RANCH CULTURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH PROJECTClient: Supported by Carol and Ned SpiekerLocation: Saddleback Ranch, Yuba County, California

ASC conducted archaeological field survey of portions of Saddleback Ranch in December 2016 and March and April 2017. This work was carried out with the generous support of Ned and Carol Spieker, owners of the ranch. ASC has conducted studies at the ranch since 2013, and has reported our findings in several reports and presentations. The goal of the last season was to expand the area included in the site inventory, examining an additional 700 acres of Saddleback Ranch. Combined with the prior three seasons of survey, approximately 1,975 acres have now been surveyed by a field crew. During the latest survey we identified another 52 sites. Of these, 30 are prehistoric, mostly bedrock milling features; 20 are historic-period; and two have elements of both. Combined with the 91 previously discovered resources, we now know of 139 sites across the 1,975 acres surveyed. That is an unusually high density of one archaeological site for every 14.2 acres, with a remarkable number of bedrock mortar features. Survey will continue into the next fiscal year, with the hope of completing survey of the entire ranch.

Some exciting discoveries were made during the last surveys. A series of previously unknown rock- art panels were found not far from the single panel already discovered. Among the new motifs is a “zig-zag” line, possibly representing a rattlesnake, as sometimes used in local basketry designs. Another important prehistoric site we found consists of a boulder outcrop shelter. A natural overhang provided shelter for two cleared areas separated by a low boulder with a milling feature. The shelter area was surrounded by bedrock milling features, and a knapped chopper tool and other artifacts provide irrefutable evidence of prehistoric use. The historic sites we documented this time around include the remains of a large ranch complex, which archival research identified as the McMillan Ranch.

Figure 21. Scott McGaughey and Mark Selverston recording a bedrock mortar at Saddleback Ranch (ASC photo, 2017).

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SAN JOAQUIN RIVER ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION PROJECTSClient: River Partners Location: San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge and Dos Rios Ranch, Stanislaus County, California

The ASC completed cultural resource studies for two environmental restoration projects along the San Joaquin River for River Partners, a non-governmental group working to restore the health of the State’s rivers. The two adjacent projects that ASC is helping with include lands under Federal jurisdiction and so require compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The Dos Rios Project involves reclaiming riverside farmland using some shallow contouring and plantings to allow seasonal flooding. Original plans called for deep channels, but the client redesigned the project based on ASC’s findings that shallower channels would not penetrate a cap of historic-era flood deposits, avoiding buried surfaces that might bear prehistoric archaeological remains. ASC surveyed the Area of Potential Effects and confirmed that no resources were visible on the surface. The other project involved a historic-era levee in the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge. River Partners proposed installing culverts in the levee in order to allow seasonal flooding with appropriate drainage. ASC recorded and evaluated the levee, examined the project area, and reconstructed the historical development of the levee system and reclaimed farmland. ASC determined the levee was not eligible for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places.

Figure 22. Scott McGaughey and Michael Konzak surveying a breach along the Three Amigos Levee (ASC photo, 2017).

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SEA RANCH FIBER OPTIC CABLE NETWORK MONITORINGClient: The Sea Ranch Association Location: Sea Ranch, California

ASC continued monitoring the installation of buried fiber optic cables at Sea Ranch on a spot-checking basis and where the project crossed areas of sensitivity identified in a survey completed in the previous year. ASC involvement led to some adjustments to the project in order to avoid cultural resources, and mitigation efforts to protect a midden deposit accidentally exposed by trenching work. Monitoring continued into the following fiscal year.

Figure 23. Plowing to bury main-line cable along Bluff Reach (ASC photo, 2016).

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SOBERANES INCIDENT EXCAVATION PROJECTClient: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE).Location: Monterey, California

In April and May 2017, ASC excavated test pits at two sites in the Santa Lucia Preserve in Monterey County at the request of CAL FIRE. Fire-suppression efforts during the 2016 Soberanes Fire had cut access roads through CA-MNT-1487 and CA-MNT-1504, resulting in impacts to the prehistoric cultural resources of both sites. CAL FIRE subsequently repaired the damaged areas and proposed archaeological testing to mitigate the damage.

The goal of the project was to characterize the two resources and place them within the broader regional prehistory. Laboratory processing, analyses including radiocarbon and obsidian-hydration dating, and specialized studies were conducted between May and August 2017. The project analyzed the results of small excavations at each site in local environmental, archaeological, ethnographic, and historical contexts, enriching and refining interpretations of the regional culture history, and making recommendations for further research at both sites and elsewhere.

The material evidence indicates that CA-MNT-1487 was occupied briefly during the Late Period by Rumsen Ohlone people; it was apparently one of a system of sites with differing, probably seasonal, functions that jointly made up the ethnohistorically documented village of Echilat. CA-MNT-1504 was located farther from the Echilat core, and appears to have been a short-term stopping place, probably along the route between Echilat and the coast, that was used primarily used for hunting and processing, with limited long-term habitation. Striking differences in patterns of burning and the mix of foods consumed among these two sites and several previously tested sites in the area call for further research. Radiocarbon dates on charcoal and marine shell agree very well, indicating that shell, which is much more plentiful in local archaeological deposits and more unambiguously associated with cultural activity, is an effective material for dating cultural remains in this area.

Figure 24. ASC archaeologist Michael Stoyka excavating at CA-MNT-1504 (ASC photo, 2017).

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TOLOWA ETHNOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW AND TRADITIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTY INVENTORYClient: National Park Service Location: Redwood National Park, California

ASC staff archaeologist Michael Newland, working with Tolowa Dee Ni’ Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) Suntayea Steinruck and her staff and Elk Valley Rancheria THPO Crista Stewart and her staff, completed a study begun in the previous fiscal year on climate-change threats to traditional Tolowa marine, terrestrial, and cultural resources, with recommendations for management in Redwood National Park, California. The research was based on oral histories, ethnographic documents, and existing archaeological data, compiling an inventory of resources and their uses, and traditional ecological knowledge concerning seasonality, burning, and historical changes in climate and ecological conditions. It combined this indigenous knowledge with western analyses of local ecology, water quality, and predicted effects of climate change to propose collaborative measures towards restorative habitat management and improved resiliency.

Figure 25. The recently restored trail to Shin-yvslh-sri, “The Summer Place” (photo by Michael Newland, 2016).

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DEPARTMENT REPORTS

INTERPRETIVE AND OUTREACH SERVICES2017 SSU Excel Class

EXCEL is a summer academic enrichment program held at Sonoma State University providing experiences in science, art, engineering, mathematics, and technology for fourth- through ninth-grade students. In June 2017, ASC offered a one-week archaeology course guiding archaeologists-in-training through the process of collecting and analyzing archaeological materials. ASC staff archaeologist Whitney McClellan led seven

students in a pedestrian survey of SSU’s archaeological demonstration site. The students collected artifacts such as bottles, ceramic tablewares, projectile points, and faunal remains from the site, cleaned the items using water and brushes, and then identified them using the same references and resources employed by ASC archaeologists. Working as a team, the students identified the function and manufacture date of the artifacts, and practiced using this data to interpret the site. The course culminated with an open-house exhibition where students presented their interpretations to family members.

The students were inquisitive and eager to learn as much about archaeology as they possibly could. Their questions and interests shaped the course into an experience in which they honed their research and critical thinking skills, supporting their claims with physical evidence and data. ASC looks forward to teaching the course again in 2018.

I Am Because… ExhibitionIn July 2016, Dr. Judy Sakaki became Sonoma State University’s seventh president,

and the first Japanese American woman to head a four-year college or university in the United States. Her heritage and her family’s history have played large roles in shaping her identity and guiding her career.

Dr. Sakaki was inspired by an exhibit curated by the ASC for the Amache Digitization Project during the fall of 2016, which explored creativity and art in Colorado’s WWII Japanese American incarceration camp. She asked the ASC to curate an exhibit that would explore and highlight her family’s internment experience. ASC’s Dana Ogo Shew

Figure 26. EXCEL students washing artifacts outside the ASC lab (ASC photo, 2017).

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expanded President Sakaki’s vision and created an exhibit that examined the people and events that have influenced Judy’s life, beginning with her grandparents’ immigration to the United States and ending with her vision for the future of SSU. The exhibit, entitled “I Am Because…,” opened in time for Dr. Sakaki’s investiture ceremony in April 2017 and will be on display through 15 December 2017.

Loans for Stockton Chinatown Exhibit

The ASC’s David A. Fredrickson Archaeological Collections Facility loaned materials and artifacts from its collections for display in the “Washington Street: The Heart and Soul of Stockton Chinatown” exhibit at the San Joaquin County Historical Society & Museum.

School ToursThe ASC schedules tours of its facilities for students and visitors of all ages, both

during the school year and over the summer holiday. From July 2016 through June 2017, ASC Staff Archaeologists Kate Green, Lacey Klopp, and Whitney McClellan, and Laboratory Technician Robert Watson, with assistance from the rest of the ASC staff, provided seven facility tours to Sonoma County middle school and elementary school students, SSU undergraduates, visitors from San Jose State University, and members of the SSU community on Staff Appreciation Day. During these tours, approximately 250 students and other guests walked through ASC’s extensive collections facility, artifact analysis lab, and Geographic Information Systems computer lab, touching artifacts and learning about animal bones and archaeologists’ tools of the trade.

Figure 27. Part of the “I Am Because . . .” exhibit (Photo by Dana Ogo Shew, 2017)

Figure 28. Exhibit flyer for “Washington Street: The Heart and Soul of Stockton Chinatown.”

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SMALL PROJECTS PROGRAMThis year ASC won contracts for approximately two dozen small projects. Most of

the projects were within the greater San Francisco Bay area, although some were located as far afield as Colusa and Yuba Counties.

The Small Projects program allows students to gain experience in cultural resources management by working on real-world contracts under the supervision of ASC staff. The projects primarily involved archaeological survey, but also included monitoring, excavation, lab work, and records searches.

The work was carried out by ASC Staff Kate Green, Lacey Klopp, Whitney McClellan, Michael Meyer, and Kyle Rabellino, and graduate student Project Coordinators Samantha Dollinger and Robert Watson, with help from archaeological technicians Doshia Dodd and Scott McGaughey. The contracts were awarded by several organizations, including GHD, Bear Yuba Land Trust, and River Partners, as well as numerous small development companies and private individuals.

Figure 29. ASC Staff Archaeologist Kate Green collecting GPS survey points for the Montesol Ranch Project (ASC photo, 2017).

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FAUNAL LABASC conducted many faunal analyses this year, including materials from unique

historic-era features and collections of Native American origin. We also used our osteological capabilities for work with human remains and public outreach. The faunal lab maintained its professional relationships with the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, especially the Departments of Ornithology and Mammalogy, Ichthyology, and Herpetology, and exercised its relationships with various bands of Ohlone, Coastal Miwok (Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria [FIGR]), Lake Miwok, and Kashia Pomo in regards to both faunal and human remains.

San Francisco Central Subway ProjectASC Faunal Analyst Michael Stoyka made several visits to Central Subway project

sites to examine bone specimens found during construction activities. None of the bone was determined to be human, and the archaeological contexts of the finds could not be determined under the circumstances of their discovery. More importantly, the human remains recovered during archaeological monitoring for the Yerba Buena Station construction were reinterred on 2 February 2017. Ramona Garibay (Ohlone) and members of her family assisted in this effort.

110 Embarcadero, San FranciscoASC has been assisting Cyler Conrad, a Ph.D. candidate from the Anthropology

Department at the University of New Mexico, with a study of sea-turtle remains from historic-era sites. Monitoring at the 110 Embarcadero project site in San Francisco recovered a number of carapace, plastron, and post-cranial elements from an Olive Ridley sea turtle. Conrad’s study will include DNA and isotope analyses of these specimens. The final report for the study should be completed within the next year.

Upper Jamison CreekTest excavations at a Gold Rush-era site on Upper Jamison Creek near Graeagle,

California, encountered faunal materials in two units, collecting and processing a total of 229 pieces of faunal material. All of this material was burned or calcined due to exposure to fire. It was all very fragmentary and could not be specifically identified beyond size within class. Most of the bone is likely from domestic food sources such as cattle, sheep and/or pig.

Tolay Lake, Sonoma County Regional Parks, PetalumaASC Faunal Analyst Michael Stoyka was called into the Tolay Lake Regional Park

upon a request from Buffy McQuillen, FIGR Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO), and Park staff to identify some bone that was found on the surface within the boundaries of a known archaeological site. None of the material was identified as human.

Point Reyes National SeashoreDuring a seasonal Coastal Site Assessment Survey, Park staff found a burial eroding

out of a bluff. Park Archaeologist and former ASC staff member Paul Engel and Buffy McQuillen, FIGR THPO, contracted with ASC to visit the discovery location, examine the remains, make an assessment, and provide alternatives for possible recovery of the

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remains. ASC was also awarded a contract with the Park Archaeologist to process a large amount of faunal material recovered during systematic geoarchaeological sampling of several prehistoric sites in Point Reyes. Much of the material is fish bone. The project is ongoing, and processing of the bone should be completed within the next year.

GIS LABASC’s Geographic Information System (GIS) Lab processes and analyzes data from

field projects and prepares report graphics and spatial data. Nearly all projects carried out by ASC this year used tools from the GIS Lab, with size and scope ranging from large monitoring projects in central Nevada to the excavation of a prehistoric archaeological site in downtown Calistoga. The lab operates desktop computers equipped with current versions of ESRI ArcGIS Desktop GIS software, Trimble Pathfinder PS software, Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat, and InDesign software. The ASC also operates additional computers with ESRI and graphics software outside of the GIS Lab for general use by staff and student employees or interns. The Lab also uses ESRI’s web-based ArcGIS Online.

The GIS Lab is also home to ASC’s field recording instruments. Lab staff members manage ASC’s set of Trimble GPS units, which allow for accurate data collection, including units capable of sub-meter accuracy. Currently the lab operates sub-foot accurate Trimble GeoXH and 600 Series GeoXT units, several Trimble Juno handheld GPS field computers, and computer tablets. The Trimble units and software offer efficient work flow from GPS data collection into GIS. Projects in need of more precise measurements use the ASC’s Trimble 5605 Robotic Total Station, with the ability to map resources with centimeter accuracy. As with data collected with a GPS, these detailed survey data files can be added to GIS for spatial analysis and report graphics. Importantly, the GIS Lab helps students to become proficient at using instruments and software considered standards in CRM and industry at large. Both ASC projects and SSU internships provide students with hands-on training from office to field and back to the office.

Figure 30. Scott McGaughey using a GPS unit to record a bedrock mortar at Saddleback Ranch (ASC photo, 2017).

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ORAL HISTORY PROGRAMOral history interviews remained a main focus of the Federated Indians of Graton

Rancheria Management Plan during fiscal year 2016–2017 (the Plan is described in the “Project Descriptions” section of this report). ASC conducted several interviews at the homes of the narrators, as well as additional field interviews during road trips to locations of cultural importance. The data and interpretation of these interviews are the core of a chapter of the Heritage Management Plan that will be finalized by the end of 2017.

A donation to the ASC Oral History Program led to an oral history interview of a Japanese American internment camp survivor living in San Jose. The materials gathered from this interview will be added to the Amache Digitization Project (described in the “Project Descriptions” section of this report).

Figure 31. Kenneth Kitajima, interviewed on 23 February 2017 (ASC photo, 2017).

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INTERNSHIPS

COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP (ANTH 597)Every semester, ASC offers an Archaeological Collections Management internship

for students. The internship develops students’ practical and working knowledge of curation practices and standards in archaeology, and familiarizes them with the prehistoric and/or historic-era material culture of the local area. In the Fall semester of 2016, two undergraduate students, Jaycob Barros and Ceri Larking, completed the internship. Their primary project was to finish a status survey of the ACF collections and to each re-inventory and curate a legacy collection. Ceri and Jaycob both returned as interns in the Spring 2017 semester, along with graduate student Chelsie Brokenshire. The spring semester interns were each assigned several collections to inventory and upgrade.

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN COLLECTION MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP (ANTH 596)

This Fall 2016 internship was conducted in partnership between the David A. Fredrickson Archaeological Collections Facility and the Northwest Information Center (NWIC) to share resources and knowledge of both with student interns. The goal of the internship was to expand the GIS database of site locations for collections held by the D.A.F. Collections Facility. The NWIC benefitted from new digital site boundaries for some sites, and the D.A.F Collections Facility was able to expand its GIS database to better and more quickly understand where our collections come from. The ASC hopes to continue and expand this project in the future.

The internship was organized and overseen by the ASC’s GIS department, Michael Konzak and Bryan Mischke, and sponsored by ASC Director Tom Whitley.

Interns were Samantha Dollinger and Jason Field.

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP (ANTH 596)

This Spring 2017 internship provided graduate students with practical experience using mapping and database software in Cultural Resource Management projects. The goal was not to train students to become GIS specialists or teach an introduction to ArcGIS (the mapping software used by the ASC and most other CRM practitioners), but to expand their existing knowledge of GIS and illustrate how GIS can assist the CRM professional.

Topics ranged from an overview of map requirements for CRM reports or specific agencies to best practices while creating maps in the office and field, advanced field mapping techniques using Trimble GPS Receivers and a Total Station, analyzing construction drawings and manipulating CAD data, creating and maintaining databases, and using ArcGIS software to conduct spatial analyses.

Data and examples from actual CRM projects were used whenever possible to provide an understandable context for the use of GIS. Students were encouraged to also use data from their theses to create maps and databases as part of the internship.

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The internship was organized and overseen by the ASC’s GIS department, Michael Konzak and Bryan Mischke, and sponsored by ASC Director Tom Whitley.

Interns were Scott McGaughey, Erica Thompson, and Robert Watson. Samantha Dollinger served as the instruction assistant.

SITE SURVEY INTERNSHIP (ANTH 596A)The Spring 2017 internship was coordinated by Staff Archaeologist Kate Green with

Tom Whitley serving as faculty sponsor. Staff Archaeologist Whitney McClellan assisted with instruction during a portion of the semester.

The internship recorded six sites in Sonoma and Napa counties. Seven students learned field recording techniques on real sites with access provided by local agency and community partners. Additionally, the internship collaborated with the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of Stewart’s Point Rancheria to begin establishing an archaeological inventory of the newly created Kashia Coastal Preserve, recording or updating site records for five shell-midden sites.

Interns Stephanie Bertagnole, Philip Chilcote, Abby Gomes, Sara Hepburn, Laurel Lueders, Lorin Smith Jr., and Bryce Williams learned how to survey in varied terrain and conditions. Students learned to locate and map sites, record both prehistoric and historic-era resources using GPS, and how to complete DPR site-record forms for a variety of site types. Students produced final versions of site records for submittal to the Northwest Information Center using Word, Adobe Illustrator, and ESRI ArcMap software.

Figure 32. Michael Konzak explains how to operate the total station to interns Erica Thompson, Scott McGaughey, and Robert Watson (ASC photo, 2017).

Figure 33. Kate Green (front) with site survey interns (middle: Abby, Sara, Philip; back: Lorin, Laurel, and Bryce, at the Kashia Coastal Reserve, (ASC photo, 2017).

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DAVID A. FREDRICKSON ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS FACILITY

MISSION AND PRINCIPLESMission

The David A. Fredrickson Archaeological Collections Facility (ACF) at Sonoma State University houses and maintains Northern California prehistoric and historic-era archaeological collections and their supporting documentation as educational, scholarly, and heritage resources. At ACF collections are:

• maintained in perpetuity in a stable environment

• made available to students, scholars, and the general public for research and educational display, in accordance with ACF’s policies

• considered a resource for the future

Goals and PrinciplesACF is a permanent facility. Its management works toward the following general

goals:

• accept additional collections for permanent curation in accordance with ACF’s policies

• encourage the continued use of collections for scholarly research and education

• retain in trust any archaeological collection subject to repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act until such time as the appropriate tribal government requests repatriation

• enhance the condition of ACF’s collections by upgrading packaging and catalogs

• enhance ACF as a financially self-supporting entity within Sonoma State University

The Collections EndowmentThe ACF Endowment resides within the Sonoma State University Academic

Foundation and receives donations from interested individuals as well as funds from those who present archaeological collections to the ACF for permanent curation. The purpose of the Endowment is to accumulate funds in order that the interest shall be used to advance ACF’s mission. Suitable uses of funds developed as interest include:

• building maintenance

• salary and benefits of ACF’s Manager

• purchase of necessary supplies and equipment

• support to students and others to undertake research in the collections

A. Praetzellis 1998Revised, A. Praetzellis and E. Gibson 2008

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DAVID A. FREDRICKSON ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS FACILITY

The David A. Fredrickson Archaeological Collections Facility (ACF) issued 22 accession numbers during the past year for collections from projects in Alameda, Lake, Marin, Modoc, Napa, Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Sonoma Counties.

Public-service activities by the ACF in the past year included hosting several school-group tours of the facility as part of the ASC’s Interpretive and Outreach Services (described under Department Reports). The ACF also provided materials and artifacts for display at the “Washington Street: The Heart and Soul of Stockton Chinatown” exhibit at the San Joaquin County Historical Society & Museum.

Collections housed at the ASC are available for study or loan to qualified individuals and groups.

Two student interns gained practical experience working at the ACF in the Fall semester of 2016. Undergraduate students Jaycob Barros and Ceri Larking began their internships by completing a status survey of the ACF collections. Later in the semester, the interns were each assigned a collection to inventory. They physically compared the objects in each collection to the catalog on record, made corrections and entered them into a spreadsheet, and brought the packaging, labeling, and documentation of each collection up to current curation standards. As a final step in upgrading each collection, the interns digitized all of the associated paper documentation. Through this process, both interns gained some basic knowledge of archaeological artifacts as well as a better understanding of collections management. Ceri and Jaycob both returned as interns in the Spring 2017 semester, joined by graduate student Chelsie Brokenshire. The spring semester interns were each assigned several collections to inventory and upgrade. One community volunteer, Kathy Curley, assisted us in digitizing paper files.

Figure 34. A scanned page of field documents associated with a collection excavated in the early 1960s (ASC photo).

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NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT COMPLIANCE (NAGPRA)

NAGPRA is a Federal law, passed in 1990, that requires museums and Federal agencies to offer for repatriation certain Native American cultural items—human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony (“NAGPRA materials”)—to lineal descendants and culturally affiliated Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. All Federal agencies and all public and private museums that receive Federal funds, other than the Smithsonian Institution, are subject to NAGPRA.

Museums and Federal agencies are required to identify and inventory NAGPRA materials in their possession or control in consultation with the appropriate Native American tribes to establish the affiliation of these materials. Once identified and affiliated, museums and Federal agencies are required to send notices to the Native American tribes describing the NAGPRA materials and cultural affiliation, and stating that these materials may be repatriated. The law requires that the Secretary of the Interior publish these notices in the Federal Register.

Collections StatusThe David A. Fredrickson Archaeological Collections Facility (ACF) originally

recognized that it possessed materials subject to NAGPRA in 97 collections. The NAGPRA materials in 23 of these collections have been repatriated, reburied, or returned to the

controlling agency. The remaining 74 collections containing NAGPRA materials are from 47 archaeological sites from throughout the Bay Area. Inventories of the NAGPRA materials initially recognized in all of the collections in the possession or control of ACF have been submitted for publication in the Federal Register. Recently, additional collections containing materials subject to NAGPRA have been identified among ACF collections. Inventory of these collections is in progress.

ACF sees the NAGPRA process as an opportunity to initiate and strengthen relationships with the Native American community, with the goal of paving the way for mutually beneficial research, educational, and interpretive opportunities in the future. When the NAGPRA notice is published in the Federal Register, the affiliated tribe is sent a copy of the notice to ensure that that they are aware of their right to claim the materials. Until such time as the tribes are ready to claim their NAGPRA materials, the ACF holds these materials in trust. This means that no research is allowed on the materials except with written permission from the tribe.

Figure 35. Projectile points from non-NAGPRA archaeological collections housed at the ACF (ASC photo).

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GRADUATES’ CORNER

CRM MASTER’S THESIS DEFENSESFall 2016 Thesis Defenses

Yesenia Lyons A Simple Chicken Ranch: History and Structure of the Veronda-Falletti Ranch, Cotati, California

Spring 2017 Thesis DefensesBrian Denham Mapping the Black Butte River: Applied Technology and Perceptions of the Past

Samantha Dollinger A Cultural Landscape Approach to Management and Interpretation of Cultural Resources in the Mojave National Preserve

Jason Field Big Sur Doghole Ports: A Frontier Maritime Cultural Landscape

Phil Hanes To Dig or Not to Dig: Managing Buried Resources at Sonoma State Historic Park

Scott McGaughey In the Context of Climate Change: A Landscape Approach to Interpreting Indigenous Resources at Point Reyes National Seashore

Ashleigh Sims Make Yourself at Home: Rethinking Occupation at Multi-Component Sites Using a Case Study of the Greenfield Ranch, Ukiah, California

37TH ANNUAL GRADUATE PROSEMINAR SYMPOSIUM, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, DECEMBER 2016Presentation Abstracts

Jessica Barber Effects of multiple management strategies on the activity budgets of captive bearsIn order to assess the influence of multiple management strategies on activity budgets,

three adult female sun bears will be observed at Oakland Zoo in California. Activities will be measured by one-hour focal samplings of each bear, during all treatment phases. Removing the bear’s ability to see the zookeepers and adding an enrichment device to promote more foraging behaviors will be examined. These treatment phases will be tested both separately and in combination with each other to test the effectiveness of increasing the display of more natural behaviors while decreasing stereotypic behaviors and inactivity. Lastly, this study will examine the influence of visitor density and seasonality effects on the bear’s activity budgets. The results of this research will provide Oakland

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Zoo with a clearer understanding of how changes in management strategies affect the behavior of sun bears as well as provide insight into the underlying causes of stereotypic behavior.

Kari Lentz A Tale of Two Buttons: Irish Identity and Diaspora in Nineteenth Century San FranciscoAlthough Irish immigrants composed the majority of the foreign-born population in

San Francisco from the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the archaeology of this population has often been overlooked. Recent excavations in the city’s downtown uncovered two buttons worn by a member of the Fenian Brotherhood, an organization dedicated to Irish independence from Britain. This study examines how an Irish individual utilized these personal adornments to negotiate their identity during the 1870s. Investigation of city directories and censuses establishes an association between the buttons and their owner. Analysis of Wrindex, a database of Irish newspapers, provides sociopolitical contextualization that illuminates how this individual created voluntary associations with larger social groups, such as the Fenian Brotherhood. This project provides a case study for how historical archaeologists can approach identity in diasporic contexts. The proposed model enables archaeologists to transcend restrictive views of ethnicity to elucidate more nuanced interpretations of identity in the past.

Laurel Lueders The Noren Collection: A Case Study in Looting Behavior The purpose of this case study is to observe the act of looting as a behavioral

phenomenon without a moralistic judgement. The Noren collection is a unique assemblage of artifacts that were collected by United States Forest Service Ranger, Al Noren, and were collected in direct proximity to his duty locations that spanned the state of California. It is believed that by examining the changes in Noren’s methods of labeling his collection, there is a shift in his behavior towards his site looting. By considering the motivational factors, along with the dates in which looting laws were established and enacted, a distinct timeline appears of Noren’s habits in regards to his collection. Further analysis of this timeline and the collection allows for an increased understanding of what causes people to loot, and provides possible uses for the Noren collection in the future.

James Peterson A Historical Cultural Landscape Context Statement of Mt. BurdellThis project will construct a Historical Cultural Landscape Context Statement

(HCLCS) for Marin County Parks and Open Space’s (MCPOS) Mt. Burdell. The HCLCS will focus on the site-specific location with regional and national contextualization. The HCLCS’s core purpose allows MCPOS to consider reconceptualizing Mt. Burdell as a cultural landscape in the past and present. It will do this by providing a narrative of the constructed historical cultural landscapes of Mt. Burdell over the contact era Coastal Miwok, Spanish, Mexican and American politically delineated time periods. My research questions seek to construct the historical cultural landscapes through the methodology and data gained from ethnobiology and historical range reconstruction. By intertwining the cognitive and material reconstructions into the framework of analysis, the HCLCS becomes even more potentially applicable for MCPOS. The significance of this reconceptualization by MCPOS would result in clearer decisions about their stated restoration and public educational goals.

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GRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITIESInternships

ANTH 596A: Site Survey Internship – Stephanie Bertagnole, Philip Chilcote, Abby Gomes, Sara Hepburn, Laurel Lueders, Lorin Smith Jr., and Bryce Williams.

ANTH 597: Archaeological Collections Management Internship – Jaycob Barros, Chelsie Brokenshire, and Ceri Larking.

ANTH 596 (Fall 2016): Geographic Information Systems in Collection Management Internship – Samantha Dollinger and Jason Field.

ANTH 596 (Spring 2017): Geographic Information Systems in Cultural Resource Management Internship – Samantha Dollinger (instruction assistant), Scott McGaughey, Erica Thompson, and Robert Watson.

Volunteer ActivitiesSociety for California Archaeology 2017 Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California

– Erica Thompson

Professional Meeting PresentationsCarriere, Lauren A. 2017 Under the Parking Garage: Developing Public Interpretive Content for the San Luis

Obispo Chinatown. Symposium titled “Current Research at Sonoma State: Expanding CRM Beyond Compliance Archaeology.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 12 March 2017.

Chang, Caitlin 2017 Braised Pig Feet and Ox Tail Soup: Foodways of the San Luis Obispo Chinatown

Symposium titled “Current Research at Sonoma State: Expanding CRM Beyond Compliance Archaeology.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 12 March 2017.

2017 That’s Offal! Understanding “Unusual” Faunal Bones from the San Luis Obispo Chinatown. Symposium titled “Three-Minute Artifact Forum: Sharing the Past.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 11 March 2017.

Denham, Brian G. 2017 Applied Technological Approaches in Heritage Management: the Black Butte River

Mapping Project. Symposium titled “Current Research at Sonoma State: Expanding CRM Beyond Compliance Archaeology.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 12 March 2017.

Dinarte, Rudy A., and Alexis T. Boutin 2017 I am a Californiano: Remembering the Bear Flag Revolt and Constructing Identity in

Sonoma County. Symposium titled “Current Research at Sonoma State: Expanding CRM Beyond Compliance Archaeology.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 12 March 2017.

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Dodd, Doshia 2017 Seeds, Pits, and Privies Oh My: A Botanical Analysis of a 19th Century San Francisco

Collection. Symposium titled “Current Research at Sonoma State: Expanding CRM Beyond Compliance Archaeology.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 12 March 2017.

Dollinger, Samantha 2017 A Cultural Landscape Approach to management and interpretation in the Mojave

National Preserve. Symposium titled “Current Research at Sonoma State: Expanding CRM Beyond Compliance Archaeology.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 12 March 2017.

Dollinger, Samantha, Michael Konzak, Bryan Mischke, and Jason Field 2017 Integrating GIS and Collections Management at the David A. Fredrickson

Archaeological Collections Facility, Part 2. Poster presented at Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 11 March 2017.

Hess, Erin E. 2017 Data Potential for In-Ground Cooking Features. Symposium titled “Current Research

at Sonoma State: Expanding CRM Beyond Compliance Archaeology.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 12 March 2017.

Field, Jason 2017 Big Sur Doghole Ports: A Maritime Cultural Landscape. Symposium titled “Maritime

Archaeology on the West Coast.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 11 March 2017.

Figure 36. Matriculated and current SSU graduate students from the CRM program at the Society for California Archaeology meeting in March 2017.

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McGaughey, Scott C. 2017 In the Context of Climate Change:

A Cultural Landscape Approach to Interpreting Indigenous Resources at Point Reyes National Seashore. Symposium titled “Current Research at Sonoma State: Expanding CRM Beyond Compliance Archaeology.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 12 March 2017.

Poska, Ryan 2017 An Analysis of Culture Contact in the

Cache Creek Watershed. Symposium titled “Current Research at Sonoma State: Expanding CRM Beyond Compliance Archaeology.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 12 March 2017.

Sims, Ashleigh 2017 Make Yourself at Home: Rethinking Occupation at Multi-Component Sites using a Case

Study of the Greenfield Ranch, Ukiah, California. Symposium titled “Current Research at Sonoma State: Expanding CRM Beyond Compliance Archaeology.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 12 March 2017.

Thompson, Erica R. 2017 Allensworth: Restoring the Cemetery of The town that Refused to Die. Symposium

titled “Current Research at Sonoma State: Expanding CRM Beyond Compliance Archaeology.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 12 March 2017.

Figure 37. Ryan Poska explaining to a visitor how Lidar can be used to study historical landscapes, at the mini-conference celebrating the investiture of SSU President Judy Sakaki (ASC photo, 2017).

Figure 37. Lauren Carriere talking with a guest about the Palm Street Chinatown Collection, at the mini-conference celebrating the investiture of SSU President Judy Sakaki (ASC photo, 2017).

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STAFF PRESENTATIONSGreen, Kate Erickson 2017 Discussant. Symposium titled “Current Research at Sonoma State: Expanding CRM

Beyond Compliance Archaeology.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 12 March 2017.

McClellan, Whitney 2017 Organizer of poster session titled “Community, Interpretation, and Technology: The

Future of California Cultural Resources Management. Other contributors were graduate students Ryan Poska, Lauren Carriere, Madison Long, and Erica Thompson. Investiture of the 7th President Judy K. Sakaki, Mini Conference, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, 20 April 2017.

Selverston, Mark D. 2016 Bodie’s Historical Archaeology. 35th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Reno,

Nevada.

2017 Bodie’s Historical Archaeology. Symposium titled “Partnerships, Transformations, and Technology at California State Parks.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, March 2017.

2017 Assembling Malakoff Diggins. Symposium titled “Historical Archaeology: Mining Miscellany.” Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California.

2017 Archaeology of Jamison Creek Campground, Plumas County, California. Presented to grades 4 and 5, Nevada City School of the Arts, Nevada City, California.

2017 History of Malakoff Mine, Nevada County, California. Presented to grades 4, 5, and 6, Forest Hill Charter, Nevada City, California.

2017 French History of Malakoff Mine, Nevada County, California. Presented to E. Clampus Vitus Chapter 10, Nevada City, California.

Praetzellis, Adrian. 2017 Participant in Forum 3: “The State of the State: The Archaeological Curation Crisis

in California. Society for California Archaeology 51st Annual Meeting, Fish Camp, California, 10 March 2017.

Shew, Dana 2016 Guest lecturer, University of Denver Amache Field School. 5–8 July 2016, Granada,

Colorado.

2016 Guest lecturer for class History 21, “Race, Ethnicity, & Gender in American Culture,” Allison Baker, professor. 3 November 2016, Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma campus, California.

2017 Presenter for “Digging up Our History,” panel on internment archaeology. Japanese American Museum of San José, 21 January 2017, San José California.

2017 Presenter at Santa Rosa Junior College Day of Remembrance event. 14 February 2017, Student Activities Center, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California

2017 Guest lecturer for ENSP 400, “Social & Environmental Justice,” Karna Wong, professor. 8 March 2017, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

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Walker, Mark 2017 Las Plumas, A Progressive-Era Company Town on the Feather River. State of Jefferson

Historical Group 41st Annual Meeting, Redding, California, 25 February 2017.

Whitley, Thomas G. 2017 Blurring the Lines Between Prediction and Interpretation: Some Thoughts on

the Contributions of Energetics, Mobility, and 3D Models to Settlement Theory. Symposium titled “Contributions to Settlement Theory? Archaeological Location Analysis and Modeling. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 45th Annual Conference, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 16 March 2017.

2017 Droning on a Budget: UAVs, Aerial Imagery, and Photogrammetry for the Archaeologist. Symposium titled “Teaching through the Past: Advances in Technological Analysis of the Archaeological Record.” Society for American Archaeology, 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 31 March 2017.

2017 Visual Modeling of the Effects of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage. 2017 Faculty Research and Scholarship Symposium, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

Whitley, Thomas G., Megan Berry, Lucía Clayton Martínez 2016 Re-Visualizing the Drowned Landscapes of Murujuga and the Dampier Archipelago,

Western Australia. Symposium titled “Linking Past and Present: Coastal Subsistence in Australasia. Australian Archaeological Association, Annual Conference, Terrigal, New South Wales, Australia, 6–8 December 2016.

Figure 39. ASC archaeologist Whitney McClellan with CRM graduate students Madison Long, Erica Thompson, Lauren Carriere, and Ryan Poska; they all participated in the mini-conference celebrating the investiture of SSU President Judy Sakaki (ASC photo, 2017).

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STAFF PARTICIPATIONS, RESEARCH, AND TRAINING COURSES

Owen, Bruce Secretary and Treasurer, Institute of Andean Studies (Berkeley).

Praetzellis, Adrian Chair, Archaeological Resources Committee. State Historical Resources Commission. Chair, Information Center Procedural Advisory Committee. State Historical Resources

Commission. Member, State Historical Resources Commission. Governor Brown appointee for archaeology.

Selverston, Mark D. Board member, Friends of North Bloomfield and Malakoff Diggins.

PUBLICATIONSWalker, Mark 2017 Approaching Transient Labor through Archaeology. In Historical Archaeology Through

a Western Lens, Mark Warner and Margaret Purser, editors, pp. 85–109. University of Nebraska Press and The Society for Historical Archaeology, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Whitley, Thomas G. 2017 Geospatial Analysis as Experimental Archaeology. In “Archaeological GIS Today:

Persistent Challenges, Pushing Old Boundaries, and Exploring New Horizons,” edited by Meghan C.L. Howey and Marieka Brouwer Burg, special issue, Journal of Archaeological Science 84:103–114. Available online 18 May 2017.

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CULTURAL RESOURCES STUDY REPORTSAnthropological Studies Center 2016 Addendum 23: 661 Mathew St., to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project,

Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2016 Addendum 24: 501 Ridgetop Rd., 410, 390 and 120 Nob Hill Ave., 290 and 200 Sheridan St., 200 and 31 N. Adams St., 541 W. Clark St., 40 N. O’Neil Ave., 90 N. Edwards St., and 371 W. Bateman St. to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2016 Addendum 25: 290 and 285 N. Adams Street (St.), 80 N. Edwards St., 10 N. Monroe St., and 501 S. Main St., to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2016 Addendum 26: 380 and 131 N. Main St., to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2016 Addendum 27: 461 W. Bateman St., to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2016 Addendum 28: 131 W. Mineral St., to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2016 Addendum 29: 110 S. Main St., to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2016 Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada: Interim Summary of Cultural Resources Actions in 2016. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2016 Archaeological Monitoring and Testing Results within the Gas Station Lot, Yerba Buena/Moscone Station Headhouse. Revision 0, August 24, 2016. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared in association with Central Subway Partnership, San Francisco, for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, San Francisco.

2017 Addendum 30: Archaeological Sensitivity and Monitoring Requirements for 10 Properties to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2017 Addendum 31: Archaeological Sensitivity and Monitoring Requirements for 27 Properties to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

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2017 Addendum 32: 40 Railroad St. and 660 County Road 101, to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2017 Addendum 33: Inventory of 380 N O’Neil Ave and National Register Evaluation of a Sparse Lithic Deposit at 380 And 400 N O’Neil Ave., to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2017 Addendum 34: Eleven Additional Properties, to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2017 Addendum 35: 200 Vandal Way, 11 Vandal Way, 561 W. Clark Ave., and 60 Nob Hill Ave., to A Cultural Resources Study of the Eureka Smelters Project, Eureka, Nevada. Prepared for Environmental Quality Management, Bothell, Washington. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2017 Eureka Smelters Project: Archaeological Monitoring Protocol Revision. Memo prepared for EQM, Inc. as agent for US Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, San Francisco. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

Dollinger, Samantha 2016 Archaeological Resources Study of 1600 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio, Marin County,

California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Katie Warfield, SNK Ltd. LP.

2016 Amendment to Archaeological Records Search for the Browns Valley Trunk Sewer Replacement Project, City of Napa, Napa County, California. Letter report to GHD, dated 7 December 2016. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2017 An Archaeological Resources Study of Approximately 125 Acres at 10164 Pacheco Pass Highway, Hollister, Santa Clara County, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Pacheco Pass Land & Cattle LLC, Hollister, California.

2017 An Archaeological Resources Study for the Fulton Road Widening Project, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for GHD, Santa Rosa, California.

2017 Archaeological Resources Study of 60 Acres of Montesol Ranch, Napa County, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Justin Smith, Middletown, California.

Green, Kate Erickson 2017 Archaeological Resources Review and Sensitivity Study for the Village at Corte Madera

Expansion Project. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for GHD, Santa Rosa, California.

2017 Archaeological Resources Review for the North Marin Water District Advanced Metering Information Project, Novato, Marin County. Letter report to GHD, dated 20 January 2017. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

Anthropological Studies Center (continued)

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2017 Archaeological Resources Review for the North Marin Water District San Mateo Tank Project, Novato, Marin County, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for GHD, Santa Rosa, California.

Green, Kate Erickson, and Kyle Rabellino 2017 Archaeological Survey report and Additional Sensitivity Assessments for the North Trunk

Sewer Replacement Project, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for GHD, Santa Rosa, California, June 2015, revised July 2017.

Klopp, Lacey 2016 Archaeological Resources Review of 10 Acres at 3858 and 3874 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa

Rosa, Sonoma County, California. Letter report to Kurt Vincelette, R&B Company, San Jose, California, dated 1 August 2016. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

McClellan, Whitney 2017 Archaeological Resources Study of APN 046-161-11 and APN 046-221-07, 455

Panoramic Highway, Mill Valley, Marin County, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Daniel Weissman, Mill Valley, California.

2017 Archaeological Resources Study for the City of Santa Rosa A Place to Play Well, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for GHD, Santa Rosa, California.

Meyer, Michael D. 2017 2100 Market Street, San Francisco, California, Archaeological Testing Plan and Archaeological

Testing Results Report. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Brian Spiers Development, San Francisco, California.

Meyer, Michael D., and Adrian Praetzellis 2016 Archaeological Monitoring Report: Argonaut Mine Eastwood Multiple Arch Dam Geotechnical

Study. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Weston Solutions, Walnut Creek, California.

Newland, Michael, Crista Stewart, Kevin Mealue, Suntayea Steinruck, and Karin Levy 2016 Climate-change Threats to Traditional Tolowa Marine, Terrestrial, and Cultural Resources and

Recommendations for Management, Cushing and Nickel Creek Watersheds, Redwood National Park, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California with Elk Valley Rancheria, Crescent City, California, and Tolowa Dee ni’ Nation, Smith River, California. Prepared for Redwood National Park, Orick, California.

Praetzellis, Mary (editor) 2017 Final Archaeological Resources Report and Data Recovery Report for 110 The Embarcadero, San

Francisco, California. With contributions by Erica Gibson, Kate Erickson Green, Sandra Massey Konzak, Whitney McClellan, Michael D. Meyer, Adrian Praetzellis, Dana Ogo Shew, Michael Stoyka, and Mark Walker. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for The Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco.

Green, Kate Erickson (continued)

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Praetzellis, Mary, and Adrian Praetzellis 2016 Archaeological Research Design and Treatment Plan Addendum, 975 Bryant Street, San

Francisco, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for CRP/Maple Bryant Street, LLC, San Francisco.

2016 Archaeological Testing Plan, “Parcel O”, San Francisco, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Mercy Housing, San Francisco.

2017 1200 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, Archaeological Research Design and Treatment Plan. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Van Ness Post Center, LLC, San Francisco.

2017 Archaeological Testing Plan, 1532 Harrison Street, San Francisco, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Build Inc., San Francisco.

Selverston, Mark D. 2016 Jamison Creek Campground Site, CA-PLU-3836/H, Test Excavation Summary [letter

report]. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Plumas-Eureka State Park, Plumas County, California.

2017 Archaeological Resources Review for the Dos Rios Restoration Project, Stanislaus County, California. With Adrian Praetzellis, and with contributions by Bryan Mischke and Samantha Dollinger. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for River Partners, Chico, California.

2017 Saddleback Ranch Archaeological Project Survey Summary [letter report]. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Saddleback Ranch, Yuba County, California.

Stoyka, Michael, and Adrian Praetzellis 2016 Archaeological Construction Monitoring of CA-SON-347, Work Site 2, State Route 1

(PM 15.5) Sonoma County, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for the California Department of Transportation, District 4, Oakland.

Walker, Mark 2017 Archaeological Survey Report, Willits Slide Response 2017, Willits, Mendocino County,

California, MEN 101 T 43.2 and the Plasma Disposal Site. Submitted to the California Department of Transportation, District 3, Marysville, California.

Watson, Robert, and Michael Newland 2016 Archaeological Resources Study of APNs 048-042-280 and -290, Third Avenue South, City of

Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Stephen Semprevivo, Los Angeles, California.

Watson, Robert, and Kate Green 2017 Archaeological Resources Study of Willow Bend Preserve Restoration Area, Colusa County,

California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for River Partners, California.

Watson, Robert, and Mark Selverston 2017 Archaeological Resources Study of Proposed Yuba Rim Trail Improvements Rice’s Crossing

Preserve, Yuba County, California. Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Bear Yuba Land Trust, Grass Valley, California.

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Back cover photo: Site survey interns Sara Hepburn and Laurel Lueders, and ASC archaeologist Whitney McClellan, standing behind a stone fence that was recorded as part of the internship (ASC photo, 2017).

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