Archeological Inquiry at the Surface Lithic Scatter Site YUB-1161, Beale Air Force Base, Yuba County, California

摘要

The surface lithic scatter site YUB-1161 was investigated during August 1986. An 80 meter by 85 meter grid with five meter intervals was placed on the site and an intensive controlled collection of all discernible cultural lithic materials was conducted. This collection yielded just over one hundred cores, awls, gravers, flakes, and spalls. They are primarily of grey colored chert with some greenstone present. A one meter square test unit was also excavated with similar artifacts being found only in the topsoil layer. These artifacts seem to represent predominately primary lithic reduction activities at either a flaking station or small quarry locale, with the former more probably. While the site could date to the ethnographic Maidu era, more likely it predates this, possibly being associated with earlier Hokan speaking groups of central California. Additional research most likely is needed to resolve or clarify the role and function of YUB-1161.