ANT-309 Elements of Archaeology Lecture Outline Week 2 January 13, 2010

III Local Archaeology and Prehistory

A History of Research

1 Early Work

a Whale Rock Reservoir

b Clemmer’s site at Morro Bay

c Little Pico Creek

2 Modern Research

a Diablo Canyon (Roberta Greenwood)

b Pico and Little Pico Creek Revisited

c CA-SLO-165 at Morro Bay

d Cross Creek

B Regional Cultural Sequence

1 Initial Colonization of western North America (terminal Pleistocene)

a Siberia and Beringia

b The Prevailing model of the 20^th century

i  Laurentide and Cordilleran Ice Sheets (Ice-free Corridor)

ii Paleoindian. - fluted points.

(i) Clovis Big Game Hunters--first recognized at a site near the town of Clovis in New Mexico.. It dates from about 13,300-12,900 years B.P.

(ii) Pleistocene Overkill hypothesis. Paul Martin

(iii) Late Pleistocene climatic change

iii California fluted points

(i) Two finds in San Luis Obispo

c New Sites/New Theories

i Monte Verde, Chile14,000 years old

ii Paisley Cave!!! (Gilbert and Jenkins) 14,000 BP- coprolites!!, DNA

iii Coastal Migration Route theory

(i) Coastal Corridor- Recent paper by Carole Mandryk et al.

1. California Paleo-Coastal

a. Daisy Cave on San Miguel Island, 12,000 B.P. Jon Erlandson

b. Arlington Woman Santa Rosa Island 13,000-11,000 B.P. Skeleton only John Johnson

(ii) Extraterrestial Impact 12,900 B.P.- Caused Megafaunal extinctions? Roy Firestone et al. 2007

2 The Holocene on the Central California Coast

a California Milling Stone Culture 8000-3500 B.C

b Hunting Culture 3500 B.C.- A.D. 1250 (Early Period 3500-1000 B.C., Middle Period 1000 B.C.- A.D. 1250)

c A.D. 1250-1769 (Late Period)

d Protohistoric (A.D. 1542-1769), Contact-AD1769