Central California Coastal Prehistory: A View from Little Pico Creek (PERSPECTIVES IN CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY)

Report on two sites in northern coastal San Luis Obispo County, California, provides both a baseline for a synthesis of past data and a direction for future research into the prehistory of the central coast. Effort is made to refine dating for the site and to isolate temporal components by employing radiocarbon data, contemporary shell-bead typological analysis, and an enhanced obsidian source and hydration sample. To relate site findings to research issues of cultural chronology, subsistence, mobility, social structure, and exchange, faunal remains, human osteology, flaked stone residues, and formal artifacts were studies intensively.Georgie Waugh is the author of 'Central California Coastal Prehistory: A View from Little Pico Creek (PERSPECTIVES IN CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY)', published 1995 under ISBN 9780917956836 and ISBN 0917956834.