Protection and preservation of the heritage resources requires that we know where these resources are located, and understand how they contribute to California’s expansive history. To date a combined total of over 13,400 cultural resources have been recorded on State Park lands, and many more remain to be documented. These precious archeological sites, buildings and structures, historic landscapes and cultural preserves represent a broad spectrum of California’s richly diverse past. They include, but are not limited to: Native American sites that span 10,000 years and reflect the variety of distinct cultural adaptations of prehistoric Californians; Mission Era sites and structures; Chinese, Russian, African American and other ethnic properties; early Californio and American Era resources; mining, ranching and agricultural landscapes; and underwater shipwrecks. All contribute to our understanding of the development of California as we know it today, and all provide us with physical connections to our past.
The purpose of this study is to generate a context for describing the use and reuse of a trail through the Mayacmas Mountains, historically described as the “Trail between Hopland and Lakeport”, and also having its origins as an “Indian Read More …
Archaeologists and volunteers trace the story of the Morman emigrants as told by the evidence left behind on the CarsonTrail. PDF contains link to YouTube video.
Indigenous people’s detailed traditional knowledge about fire, although superficially referenced in various writings, has not for the most part been analyzed in detail or simulated by resource managers, wildlife biologists, and ecologists. . . . Instead, scientists have developed the Read More …
This report details the results of an archaeological inventory survey of the proposed Alta Sierra development project, involving approximately one-acre located adjacent to the east side of Alta Sierra Drive, and the west side of Little Valley Road, approximately 200 Read More …