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Author Lebow, Clayton G., author

Title The Archaeology and Rock Art of Swordfish Cave / Clayton G. Lebow, Douglas R. Harro, and Rebecca L. McKim ; with contributions by Carole Denardo, Jill Onken, Ann M. Munns, and Rick Bury
Published Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2016]

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Series The University of Utah anthropological papers ; number 129
University of Utah anthropological papers ; no. 129
Summary "Swordfish Cave is a well-known rock art site located on Vandenberg Air Force Base in south central California. Named for the swordfish painted on its wall, the cave is a sacred Chumash site. It was under threat from various processes and required measures to conserve it. Nearly all of the cave's interior was excavated to create a rock art viewing area. That effort revealed previously unknown rock art and made it possible to closely examine how early occupants used the space inside the cave. They identified three periods of human use, including an initial occupation around 3,550 years ago, an occupation about 660 years later, and a final Native American occupation that occurred much later, between A.D. 1787 and 1804. The discovery of tools used to make the pictographs linked the art to the two early occupations, pushing back the generally understood antiquity of rock art on California's Central Coast by more than 2,000 years. Two aspects make this study unusual: datable materials associated with rock art and complete removal of cave deposits. Well illustrated with photographs, maps, and drawings of both the art itself and the excavations and materials revealed therein, the book presents a rare opportunity to directly link archaeology and rock art and to examine the spatial organization of prehistoric human habitation"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Petroglyphs -- California
Rock paintings -- California
Archaeology -- California
Ethnohistory -- California
Fossil hominids -- California
Prehistoric peoples -- California
Archaeological dating.
dating (measuring process)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Antiquities
Archaeological dating
Archaeology
Ethnohistory
Fossil hominids
Petroglyphs
Prehistoric peoples
Rock paintings
SUBJECT California -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018868
Subject California
Form Electronic book
Author Harro, Douglas R., author
McKim, Rebecca L., author
ISBN 9781607814580
1607814587