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CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY

California Indian Library CollectionsPhoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

(formerly the Robt. H. Lowie Museum of Antl~opology)University of California

Berkeley, ~ 94720

1992: ......

This publication was supported in whole or in part by the U. S. Department of Educationunder the provisions of the Library Services and Construction Act, administered by theCalifornia State Eibrary.

Written materials in this collection are made available for research and educationalpurposes only. In addition to any restrictions on use which appear on individualitems, the following restrictions apply to all items: copies may be made for research oreducational purposes only; under no circumstances may copies be published, made forcommercial purposes, or sold.

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Cultural Diversity in

Early Central California: A View

from the North Coast Ranges .

DAVID A. FREDRICKSON

~ OR more. than 30 years the Centralthroughout Central. California and into theCalifornia chronological sequenceGreat Basin.

’ proposed by Lillard, Heizer, and Fenenga When emphasis is shifted from beads and(1939) with additions by. Beardsley (1948,ornaments, however, to other elements of

¯ 1954) has formed the backdrop against whichculture more intimately linked to basic sub-subsequent investigations have had to stand,sistence patterns, the. cultural picture whichBeardsley outlined several advances in methodhas developed in the past several years appearswhich allowed recognition of the temporalmore complex than that suggested by thesequence of Early, Middle, and Late Horizonstraditional Central California sequence. It isin Central California, an area which previouslydifficult to view the beads and ornaments ashad been noted for absence of perceptiblemarkers of cultural identity; rather they arechange (cf., Kroeber 1909, 1936). Briefly, themore easily seen to represent trade or ex-methods involved (1)deliberate investigationchange horizons. While the examination ofOf small, single component sites as well asexchange networks would seem to have alarge stratified ones; (2) the treatment of eachgreat deal to offer with respect to theindividual burial, including its associated arti-understanding of social relationships and po-

¯ , facts and other attributes, as an analytic unit;~litical deve.lopment (cf., Cohen n.d.; C. Kinga~ad (3) the recognition of beads and orna-1973), this paper focuses on the spatial andments, frequently found as grave furnishings,temporal relationships between the cultureas sensitive indicators of temporal variation,types which existed during the span encom-Beardsley explicitly acknowledged that a se-passed by the Early and Middle Horizons in.quence of burial complexes was obtained bythe Central California area within the regionsthese methods rather than a .sequence ofof the .lower Sacramento Valley, San Fran="prehistoric cultures in the full sense." Theciseo Bay, and the North Coast Ranges.I Itsuccess of the third method sketched byseems clear that a simple unilineal sequence ofBeardsley ear~. be demonstrated by the factculture, types does not provide an adequatethat the established sequence of beads andmodel for understanding the changes whichornaments, with refinements added primarilyappear to have taken place within this areaby Bennyhoff (el., Bennyhoff and Heizerduring this time period and that the transition1958), still offers a temporal framework forfrom one culture type to another did not takethe cross-dating of archaeological sitesplace uniformly throughout the area, but

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mtber took place in different regions at from Clovis-sWle fluted points and chippeddifferent times. Thus, the .absolute dating of crescentics givescredenc~ t~the ~’~that thetransitions from one culture type to another Borax Lake site was originally occupied at amust be .determined independently for eachvery early time period (cf., Gletman 1971;region. It is recommended that an understand- Tadlock 1966). Provisionally, I refer to theing of the changes which occurred in eachculture represented by these earliest Boraxregion be sought throughexamination of"Lake artifacts-as the "Post Pattern"..(namedboth technoenvironmental and sociohistoricalafter Chester Post, the amateur who firstfactors, called the site to the attention of professional

The relationships proposed here axe basedarchaeologists [Harrington 1948]). The sug-upon published and unpublished data fromgestion of Meighan and Haynes that these

the North Coast Ranges, as well as similarmaterials may relate to localities such asdata from San Francisco Bay and the lowerTulare Lake (cf., Riddell and Olsen 1969;

~Sacramento Valley. Specifically, I refer toRoehr and W’flwand 1968), where flutedinvestigations, including radiocarbon dating,points and crescents were found as part of aat Lak-261 near the town of Lower Lakesurface~ assemblage, appears reasonable, al-

~ (Fredrickson 1961, 1973), the analysis ofthough fuller documentation and better dat-Borax Lake obsidian carried out by Findlow,ing are needed to determine relationshipsDe Atley, and Ericson (1973), the obsidianmore precisely.hydration seriation and geological study of Meighan and Haynes also provide obsidianthe Borax. Lake site conducted by Meighanhydration measurements which indicate thatand Haynes (1968, 1970), the analysis andthe wide-stem Borax Lake projectile pointradiocarbon dating of Windrnlller materialsmay date back as far as 4000 to 6000 B.C.reported by Ragir (1972), the comparativeand further hypothesize its association withanalysis based upon the University Villagemilling stones and hand stones. That thismaterials from San Francisco Bay done byconjecture may be correct is suggested by theGerow and Force (1968), and the investiga-recent discovery of similar points in millingtions, including radiocarbon dating, at CCo-stone contexts, in two Central California308 in interior Contra Costa County (Fred-localities. In Little Indian Valley,~about 9rickson 1966). A summary of these findingsmiles northeast of the Borax Lake site, Orlinsfollows below while relevant radiocarbon(1971, 1972) found such an association.

~.~ dates appear as Table 1 Obsidian flakes from this context have yield-

~ At the present time, the earliest culturaled hydration rim measu~ments comparablematerials in the regions under discussion" to those from the wide-stem points from the

:’~ appear to derive from the Borax Lake site,Borax Lake site. In the Klamath Mountains,¯ about 90 miles north of San Francisco Bay.northeast of Redding, Clewett (1973) found

Although absolute dating is questionable,an assemblage with a similar pairing. ClewettMeighan and Haynes (1970) found bothobtained a charcoal-based radiocarbon date ofobsidian hydration rim measurements and the4580 B.C., which provides considerable sup-geology compatible with an age of up toport to the Meighan and Haynes dating of the10,000 B.C., but not necessarily of that age.earliest rrdlling stone occupation of the BoraxThis, of course, is a time depth considerablyLake site. Provisionally, I consider this assem-earlier than that proposed for the Earlyblage of wide-stem Borax Lake points andHorizon (cf., Heizer 1958a). The finding thatmilling stones to be an early manifestation ofthe thickest hydration rims were obtainedthe "Borax Lake Pattern," the milling stone

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complex described by Meighan as early as . that the site was moze closely .related1955, which is widespread throughout theMiddle Horizon than to Windmiller.North Coast Ranges and the adjoining regionsionally, I have grouped Gerow’sto the northeast (Fredrickson 1973). It is alsoFrancisco Bay mat~, dated "b-y~ radio.’:important.to note that Do.tta (personal corn- carbon as early .as 1200 B.C,’with later~

... municafion) obtained a charcoal-based radio- Middl~ Horizon materials under the rubric ofcarbon date of 3370 B.C. for a milling stone "Berkeley Pattern." Additional supportassemblage in Mendocino County, while at occupation of the Bay by Ber.k. eley PatternLak-261, about 9 miles south of the Borax peoples comes fi’om the suit~ of C-14.dat~Lake site, charcoal,’tom another milling stone from the West Berkeley mound (Heizerassemblage was dated at 1740 B.C.. The1958a), the bottom portion of which WallaceLak-261 assemblage is arfifactually similar to(Gerow and Force 1968:10) had identifiedonthe later manifestation of the Borax Lakestylistic grounds as "contemporaneous with

~:~. Pattern distinguished by Meighan and HaynesW’mdmitler. Finally, the Berkeley Pattern as-~.~ at the Borax Lake site, and placed by themsemblage and charcoal-based radiocarbon date

within the time range of I000 to 3000 B.C.of 2500 B.C., obtained from CCo-308 at the~ At Lak-261, stemless points, including non-western foot of Mount Diablo (Fredrickson

~-= fluted concave base ones, predominated,1966), offers more weight to the proposalwhile milling stones and hand stones, occa-that Berkeley Pattern on the Bay was con-sional mortars, and a burin industry weretemporaneous with WindmiIIer Patternin theother characteristics of the assemblage. Valley, as well as with the later portion of the

Thus, it appears that the adaptation of theBorax Lake Pattern in the North CoastBorax Lake Pattern existed in the NorthRanges.Coast Ranges at a time depth comparable toSometime between 500 and 1000 B.C.,that of the Early Horizon, that is, thethe Berkeley Pattern replaced WindmilIer in"Windmiller Pattern," in the lower Sacra-the Valley, while in the North Coast Ranges,mento Valley. While the eaxliest radiocarbonat least in the localities south ~f Clear Lake,date for Windmiller is about 2400 B.C., Ragirwhat I refer t~ as the "Houx Aspect" of the(I 972) gave it a maximum age of about 3000Berkeley Pattern replaced the Borax LakeB.C., stating that she found little evidence, toPattern. A charcoal-based radiocarbon date ofsubstantiate Lillard, Heizer, and Fenenga’sIS0 B.C. was obtained from the Houx Aspect

~J::~ (1939) prior estimate of 5000 B.C. Ragixcom~onent which was situated stratigraphi-

"~ placed the terminal date for WindmiIler atcally above the Borax Lake Pattern compo-about I000 B.C, although radiocarbon datingnent at Lak-261. The Houx assemblage in-ofbone collagen suggested that it may havecluded mortars and pestles, but lacked millingbeen as late as 500 B.C. stones and hand stones. There was a large

: The terminal dating for W~dmiIler, whichnumber of projectile points, presumably dartis considerably later than the date of 2000pOints, suggests, g that hunting was consider-B.C. died by earlier workers (of., Heizerably more important in the Houx Aspect than1958a) gives s.upport to Gerow’s contention,in the earlier milling stone period. There wasf’trst made as early as 1954, that materialsalso continuation of the earlier burin in-from the University Village site on Sandustry. In short, the assemblage appeared toFrancisco Bay were stylistically similar and ofcontain elements of both the Borax Lake andan age comparable to Windmiiler, while theBerkeley Patterns and is tentatively con~id-burial mode and general technology indicatedered to be a coalescent pattern. Fig. I is a

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(related tO earlier Iloux Aspect isBorax Lake wide- a coalescent ofstemmed point?) Excelsior points Berkeley and

/~ Many leaf-shaped b~come shortened Borax Lake? ¯

/ ’~"points and narrower Mortar and pestle

through time (mane and metate Ties seem closest to(~/~} ~ drop out) Bay and Delta

Mortar and pestle Thomes Creek District:introduced: co- stemmed point

Excelsior ¯ occurs with mane most frequent

~ 0~) . ~ (,a,~ addllion?)

and nlelale

~ore"hls~l’ibed slone|"tools

Wlllow-lcaf Borax Lake District:~ leaf-shaped point

(related to similar most frequent

tral Valley.and to " Excelsior related" concave base (late addition to (related to laterHumboldt concave to Old Cordilleran, points Borax Lake . painted tablets?)base A?) but later in time?) District?)

"Coarse, single- Mane and metate

Borax Lake flake blades" inferredwide-stem

(related to dmllarpoints - all laterin time? - fromMarlis Complex andother NorthernCalifornia assemblages?)

~ (Itclatcd to assemblages from "l’ulare Lake, B.ena Vista Lake?)Borax Lake fluted Crescent

Fig. I. Cultural Sequence Within the North Coast Ranges (Paleo-lndian and Archaic Periods).

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schematic representation of theearly culturaltime depth may possibly be linked to the !

sequence, described above for the North CoastA1tithermal, a climatic r~gime believed byRanges. some to have been characterized by relatively

B~y 500 B.C., then, the Berkeley Pattern high temperatures and low precipitati’on (cf.,app’~as to have been f’n’mly established in the Antevs 1952, 1953; Bryan and Gruhn.1964;San Francisco Bay region, to have replactd Kowta 1969). In general, the cultures of thethe Windmiller Pattern in the lower Sacra- Lower Archaic Period appear to have empha.mento Valley, and in the North Coast Ranges s~zed the collecting and processing of seeds,to have merged with the Borax Lake Patternwith hunting of more significance in northernto form the Houx Aspect. I suggest that theCalifornia than in the south. As yet, no direct

.:. archaeological record would produce even evidence of acorn utilization has been found~ greater diversity with respect to basic adaptive . for this period and tools characteristic ~of

.~. and economic modes in Central California at ethnographic practices involving the acorn,¯ ..: this time level-approximately 2500 B.C. tonamely, the pestle and deep mortar, are

the early portion of the Christian era-ifabsent from the Lower Archaic Period inven-greater geographic scope were included in thistory. Nowhere during the initial portion ofdiscussion. For example, Bennyhoff’s (1968)the period did f’mhing or sea mammal hunting"Meganos Aspect" of the Berkeley Pattern,seem important, although by the finaI part ofcentered in the northern San Joaquin VaIley,the period in southern California both ofwhich follows WindmiLler in time, appears tothese resources were gaining in significance.be a merging of Windmiller and Berkeley Sometime between 3000 and 2500 B.C.,eIements. The relationships between thesethe mortar, and pestle, and presumably- thepatterns in the North Coast Ranges, Sanacorn processing technology, were introducedFrancisco Bay and lower Sacramento ValIeyor developed in California, marking the begin-are diagrammed in Fig. 2. ning of the "Middle Archaic Period." The

Some kind of integrative framework tocultural transition from Lower to Middleencompass this diversity would be useful. IArchaic-may have been associated with thepropose that the dating and identification ofend of the Altithermal and the beginning of

.~.~.~ temporal periods in California prehistory bethe Medithermal, the climatic regime which" kept separate from the dating and definitionpersists through the present day. The Middle

i~ of particular patterns and suggest the follow-Archaic Period is dated here from 3000 B.C.

~{~,ing framework (of., Bennyhoff and Fredrick-to about I000 B.C. and was marked by theson n.d.). The time span under considerationgeographic spread of the mortar and pestle.~here is generally accepted to be characterizedHunting appears to have become significantly

" by the adaptive pattern of the Archaic (cf.,more important as compared with the LowerMeighan 1959). In California, the beginning.Archaic Period, and, in general, the economicof the Archaic is marked by the introductionbase became more diversified. Shellt-~da col-or development of milling stones and anlecting spread as a local specialization whileaccompanying emphasis upon the collectionsea mammal hunting and f’mhing becameof plant foods (el., C. King 1967; Kowtaparticulady significant on the south coast.1969). An interval from 6000 B.C. to 3000 The new technologies of the Middle Ar-B.C. is acceptable for the predominance ofchaic Period may have been the result of thethe milling stone adaptation and the span. ofintrusion of a new population or populationswhat I refer to as the "Lower Archaic" which coexisted with the earlier population,Period." The cultural developments at this ultimately merging with or replacing it cul-

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technological advantage, eventually either re-wealth, the emergence of group-oriented reli-placed, the earlier milling m.e. thod, was adopt-gious activities, and greater complexity of theed as a complementary method, or was notexchange systems (see T. King 1972). -adopted at all. In some regions, such as those Sedentary life appea~ to have becomein southern California, the mortar and pestlefully estabJL~hed in many .regions, and thewere not accepted and the milling stonedeveloping economic ef~ency may haveremained the primary food-grinding tool. En-contributed to population growth. Alth~ughvh’onmental influences were probably crucialsimilar developments appear to have. beenhere as they may have been in other regions,taking place in several different regions of the~uch as the Sierran portions of Central Cali-state, the developments in~ any one regionlomb, where the milling stone and mortarmay have occurred more or less indepen-technologies coexisted within the same cul-dently of events in other regions. Over time,tures. Overall, the transition from millinghowever, poss~’bly facilitated through.religiousstone to mortar, when it did occur, did notand economic exchanges, groups in differentnecessarily take place in all localities at theregions tended to become interdependent, butsame time. Social influences also can bewith the northern and southern portions ofpostulated to have been operative in allthe state remaining relatively independent.ofregions where the adaptive competition be-one another.tween the acorn technology and previously As an aside, I refer to the Late Period indeveloped strategies occ~ For example,California prehistory, the beginning of which iwe can speculate that the social cohesion of~s placed at A.D. 500, as the "Emergent.the Windmiller Pattern, a characteristic infer-Period.’" Without summarizing arguments asable from the pattern’s tightly organizedto whether certain Californian cultures of theburial practices, may have been a factorethnographic period should b~ classified asperpetuating its coexistence vis-h-v~s the com-Archaic or Formative (cf., Baumhoff. 1-963;peting Berkeley Pattern. The overall dataHeizer 1958b; Mcighan ~1959; Wiliey andavailable as of now suggest that by I000 toPhillips 1958), I propose the conceptof the500 B.C..the resolution of most of theEmergent as a nonagricultural equivalent tocultural conflicts had taken place, althoughthe ." Formative. Evidence continues to ac-some readjustments were still to come, suchcumulate that Californians modified the erras the expansion and later contraction of theviromnent to increase its natural productivity. "Meganos Aspect of the Berkeley Pattern from(Lewis 1973; Steward 1930,~1941:232; Voeg-the Stockton District to the Diablo andelin 1942:176), that food storag~ and ex-’Alameda District reported by Bennyhoffchang~ relations s~rvod, to equalize the dis- "(I 968). tn’bufion of resources unequally distn’buted in

For the purposes of this discussion, thetime and space (of., Bean 1971; Chagnon"Upper Archaic Period" is placed within the !970; Davis 1961), that complex forms ofinterwal between about I000 B.C. and A.D.social, religious, and occupational organiza-500. While technological and environmentaltion were emerging (Bennyhoff 1961; Gold-changes appear to have provided .the domi-schmidt 1948; Lo~b 1926; McKern 1922),nant themes for developments during theand that ranking sodedes and possibly chief-Middle Archaic, the Upper Archaic seems todoms were developing in several r~gions of the

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l,~.iod Chara~ezistics1800 ....

Clam di~k bead money economy appears. In~ quantites of goods moving farther ~nd farther.Growth of locaI’~peciall2ations re: production and exchange. Inte~venetndon of south and central

, ~ Bow and arrow introduced, replace dart and atlatl; south coast maritime adaptation flowers. TerritorialI ~

~bo~es fah~ly well established. Evidence of distinctions in social ~ams linked to wealth increasingly

~t~ .~, common. Regularized exzhanges between groups conrlnue with more mate~al entering into the network

~

Growth of soc~opoEtical complexity; development of status distinctions based upon wealth. Emergenc~

~ --ig~w ~, o excha~g~ between groups. Shell beads gain in signi~cance, po.~ly indk:ato~ of both exchange and~ ~ ~’ statu~.Po~bleodg~nsofKuksureligioussy~em.attheendofporied.

Altithermal may have ended by ca. 3000 B.C.; climate becomes more ~ to .present<lay. Mortarsand ~population. Div~sific~tion of economy; sedentism more fully developed, population growth andexpansion. Tectmological and environmental facWrs provide dolt themes. Little e’~dence forsign~cant changes in exchange relations.=

3000 ......

~-~u ~ Altithermal may have begun about 6000 B.C.; attcient lakes cLrying u~. ~ stones develop or aze~ .- introduced; plant food emphasis, l~le hunting. Although semi-sedentary Life style, exchange seems

F~t d~’n~ated ~try and ~p~l of tmman~ into Calff’omi~. Lak~id¢ ~it~ with a pt~babl~ but ~otdearly demonstzated hunting emphasis. No evidence for a developed ~ technology although

~ .~ ~ltm’~ with ~ t~’mology may exist in ~te ,at t~ t~e dept. Exct~,e p~b~ly ~I h~,¯ - -= ind2,vid~l, ~-~tx~ne. $~:~al unit not hea~ly d¢l~ndent upon excaha~es; ~s~u~ a~t~d~ed by

state (cf., Fredrickson 197!; C. King 1971, relatively early, in other regions relatively1973; T. King 1970, 1972). This is not, late: In some regions =evidence of assimilationhowever, the context to examine this body of and coale~cence should be forthcoming, again.evidence, with probable temporal differences. Follow-

On the basis of the above model, I hag historical reconstructions based upon eth-hypothesize that during much of the Middle nographic and linguistic evidence (el., KIimek.Archaic Period throughout California, which 1935; Kroeber 1923), Penutian entry intodates from about 3000 B.C. to about I000 Califomia may have been linked to theB..C., considerable pattern diversity and cul- appearance of the new technologies, compli-tur. al variation will be fouhd. Considerable eating the¯ interrelationships between bothpopulation movement should be evidenced people and tedmologies. Due to the nature ofand the early milling stone pattern should be the hypothesized population and culture con-altered both by sig~.ificant internal develop- tacts, it would seem unlikely that complex,merit and by the introduction of new indus- long-standing, or extensive trade networkstries. In some regions complete replacement would develop during the earlier portion ofof the earlier pattern should be observed, this period of change. In other words, there is

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little reason to ext~ct uniformity of culture and Ethnology 49:155-236.pattern, stability of population, or regulariza- Bean, Lowell Johntion of cultural influences during the period1971 An Environmmtal Interpretation of thefrom about 3000 B.C. to about 1000 B.C., Social Systems of Some Southern Califor.that is, during the Middle Archaic Period, and nit Aboriginal’ Populations. Paper pre.possibly, in some regioris, into the Upper sented at the 1971 Meeting oft he SocietyArchaic. Fig. 3 outlines the hypothesized for California Archaeology, Sacramento.characteristics of California’s prehistoricBearddey: Richard’ILperiods. 1948 Culture Sequences in Central Californ~

In conclusion, it can be pointed out that Archaeology. American Antiquity 14:1.the envizonmental, culttwal, and linguistic 28.diversity within ethnographic California has1954 Temporal and Areal Relationships in Cert.frequently been remarked upon. It is only tral California Archaeology. Univenity ofreasonable to expect aprehistoric period with California Archaeological Survey Reports"

comparable diversity. As has been noted by 24:1.62;25:63-127. Berkeley.

other researchers, California offers an excel-Bennyhoff, James A.lent research area for the study of the1961 Ethnogeography of the Plains Miwok.adaptations and development of hunters and Ph.D. dissertation, University of Califor-gatherers, nia, Berkeley.

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I. This paper is a revised version of a presentationBennyhoff, James A., and David A. Fredricksongiven at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of then.d. A Proposed Integrative Taxonomy forSociety for American Archaeology, San Francisco, Central California Archaeology. (Paper inCalifornia, May 3-5, 1973. " preparation.)

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