Archaeological Reconnaissance on South Fork Mountain, Millerade and Sulphur-Blake Compartments, Trinity and Humboldt Counties, California

摘要

This report is based on an approximately 8000 acre archaeological survey on South Fork Mountain in Northwestern California. The survey resulted in the location of 27 new archaeological sites and the rerecording of 16 others. Thirty-six of these sites were aboriginal, two were multi-component (aboriginal and historic), and five were historic. The aboriginal sites represent considerable diversity in type: both large and small flake scatters, some with and some without millingstones. Artifacts and materials differed from site to site in quanity and type. A wide range of projectile points were found, which, based on cursory typological comparisons and limited chronological information, indicate that the resources of South Fork Mountain may have been utilized from perhaps 6000-8000 years ago until late prehistoric times. The report recommends that since these sites are very old and are diverse in type, that this area be nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as an archaeological district.