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The Archaeology of the Slick Rock Village, Tulare County, California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Franklin Fenenga
Franklin Fenenga*
Affiliation:
River Basin Surveys, Burnett Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
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Slick rock village (4Tul 10) was excavated by a Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys field party under the direction of the writer between June 20 and July 30, 1950. It is one of nine very similar sites which will be covered by the reservoir pool to be created by the construction of the Terminus Dam on the Kaweah River. This particular site was chosen for excavation because it showed less evidence of modification by recent cultural activity than any other of the threatened sites. Intensive excavation at a single site (rather than test excavation at several) was chosen as the preferable approach to the archaeology of the Terminus Reservoir area because we had hoped that concentrated excavation at a single site would yield an integrated account of at least one ancient community in this region. Such an account would be particularly interesting in the light of the extraordinarily full ethnographic literature on this area (Gayton, A. H., 1948 a, b; Latta, F. F., 1949).

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , April 1952 , pp. 339 - 347
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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* The members of the field party were all then students in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California. They included: Rod Ash, Richard Bachenheimer, David A. Fredrickson, Arthur Freed, Warren Fischer, Kenneth Kennedy, and Robert Tellefsen. Dr. and Mrs. William J. Wallace of the University of California Archaeological Survey and Donald Mc- Geein offered us welcome voluntary assistance for a portion of the work. I wish to express my indebtedness to Arthur Freed who performed a number of extra tasks including the identification of the faunal remains recovered, at the site.

1 The type collection to which this refers is in the University of California Museum of Anthropology. I am indebted to Clement W. Meighan of the University of California Archaeological Survey, who organized the type collection, for these comments on the distribution and dating of our specimens.