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<span style="color:#FF0000">'''Skull Gulch, Santa Rosa Island'''</span> is located on the island's northwest coast. This was the location of Phil Orr's third season field excavations. Unlike the two previous seasons, which were dedicated primarily to examination of elephant remains, this season's work was devoted to the excavation of Indian sites. Several house pit depressions were examined, as was a cemetery area with several burials. [SBMNH Leaflet, Winter 1949-1950]. | |||
“ Excavations were made at Skull Gulch and Green Canyon during the Second Expedition, and numerous skeletal remains and artifacts uncovered. The thorough survey showed that there were twenty-three Indian villages within a two mile area of our camp. On the hypothesis that this area could only support one village at a time, twenty-three “village cycles or phases” were represented in the total age of the habitation of the Island. Therefore it was decided that the Third Expedition would concentrate in this area, excavating key sites in an effort to determine whether a consecutive series of prehistoric habitations and artifact inventory could be established, which then might be utilized to good advantage on the mainland or on the other islands in determining the antiquity and relationship of the hundreds of ancient villages.” [Report from Santa Rosa Island Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: 1st Santa Rosa Island Expedition 1947; 2nd Santa Rosa Island Expedition 1948-49; 3rd Santa Rosa Island Expedition 1949-50, Orr, Phil unpub. ms.] | |||
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Skull Gulch, Santa Rosa Island is located on the island's northwest coast. This was the location of Phil Orr's third season field excavations. Unlike the two previous seasons, which were dedicated primarily to examination of elephant remains, this season's work was devoted to the excavation of Indian sites. Several house pit depressions were examined, as was a cemetery area with several burials. [SBMNH Leaflet, Winter 1949-1950].
“ Excavations were made at Skull Gulch and Green Canyon during the Second Expedition, and numerous skeletal remains and artifacts uncovered. The thorough survey showed that there were twenty-three Indian villages within a two mile area of our camp. On the hypothesis that this area could only support one village at a time, twenty-three “village cycles or phases” were represented in the total age of the habitation of the Island. Therefore it was decided that the Third Expedition would concentrate in this area, excavating key sites in an effort to determine whether a consecutive series of prehistoric habitations and artifact inventory could be established, which then might be utilized to good advantage on the mainland or on the other islands in determining the antiquity and relationship of the hundreds of ancient villages.” [Report from Santa Rosa Island Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: 1st Santa Rosa Island Expedition 1947; 2nd Santa Rosa Island Expedition 1948-49; 3rd Santa Rosa Island Expedition 1949-50, Orr, Phil unpub. ms.]
- 1947-1950: ORR, Phil C.
- lst Santa Rosa Island Expedition 1947
- 2nd Santa Rosa Island Expedition 1948-1949
- 3rd Santa Rosa Island Expedition 1949-1950
- 4th Santa Rosa Island Expedition
