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ORA-116 is one of many coastal shell-midden sites in and around Newport Bay, a large, complex wetlands in southern California. Whereas shell-midden studies have traditionally focused on changes in subsistence and settlement patterns, this project took a decidedly different approach. Using a variety of innovative detection measures, eleven structures were identified and excavated. Most were interpreted as house pits; one was inferred to be a sweat lodge. The structures dated between about 300 B.C. and A.D. 700, placing the occupation within the Intermediate period. The archaeological study was augmented by pollen and ostracod analysis of a 1,081-cm core taken from the nearby San Joaquin Marsh, which helped establish the Holocene history of Newport Bay. The authors integrate archaeological, ethnographic, and environmental data in a comprehensive settlement and subsistence model that is sure to be of interest to all scholars of coastal wetlands adaptation.

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• Full title: House Pits and Middens: A Methodological Study of Site Structure and Formation Processes at CA-Ora-116, Newport Bay, Orange County, California
• Author: Donn R. Grenda, Christopher J. Doolittle, Jeffrey H. Altschul
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274
• EAN: 9781879442665
• ISBN: 1879442663
• ID: 12470194
• Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr
• Weight: 821 g
• Dimensions: 275 × 215 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: April 1999

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