Chaffey Hillside Site, CA-SBr-895; Report of the Cultural Resource Mitigation Program

摘要

The archaeological portion had as its subject the Chaffey Hillside Site at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains overlooking the Cucamonga area of the Pomona Valley. The site represents a small cyclically re-occupied camp at least 1300 years old. Activities at the camp appear to have focused on the extraction and processing of plant materials, specifically yucca and oak. Included in the report are sections dealing with the natural and cultural contexts of the site, field procedures used, radiocarbon dates and obsidian hydration measurements obtained, and probable lithic source areas along with detailed accounts of the artifacts, debitage, and faunal remains recovered. Also included is a discussion of the problems in the application of existing cultural historical frameworks to sites in the interior portions of the greater Los Angeles Basin, and some predictions of what might be expected at other sites in the region if the reconstruction offered for the settlement system. Included among the appendicies are discussions of the geologic history of the region as it applies to lithic resources of interest to the site's inhabitants and the soil stratification encountered.