THE COLEOPTERA OF SANTA CRUZ ISLAND, CALIFORNIA

1934 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 143-144
Author(s):  
H. C. Fall ◽  
A. C. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Senior Author ◽  
Channel Islands ◽  
Santa Cruz Island ◽  
Santa Cruz

The “List of the Coleoptera of the Southern California Islands—” published by the senior author in 1897 (Can. Ent. 29, 1897, 233-244) was the result of more or less sporadic collecting upon the Channel Islands by several parties, few of them trained collectors of insects.

Spatial and Temporal Variability in Chert Exploitation on Santa Cruz Island, California

2010 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Perry ◽  
Christopher S. Jazwa
Keyword(s):  
Late Holocene ◽  
Channel Islands ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variability ◽  
Santa Cruz Island ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Shell Middens ◽  
Tool Manufacture ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
California Channel Islands ◽  
Northern Channel Islands

Chert outcrops on eastern Santa Cruz Island were of vital importance to the inhabitants of the Santa Barbara Channel region because of their comparatively limited availablity elsewhere on the California Channel Islands. Temporally diagnostic artifacts and radiocarbon dates from associated shell middens suggest that chert quarries were exploited throughout the Holocene. The importance of these quarries has been well documented in regard to microlith production as part of the shell bead industry during the late Holocene. However, relatively little is known about local chert tool manufacture and exchange in earlier times. Systematic documentation of 26 known chert quarries, and sampling at associated shell middens on eastern Santa Cruz Island has resulted in the identification of significant spatial variability in chert exploitation through time. Whereas chert quarrying during the middle Holocene appears to have been opportunistic and dispersed throughout the landscape, comparable activities during the late Holocene became increasingly circumscribed as microlith production was intensified. These trends in chert procurement are interpreted in the context of temporal changes in subsistence, tool manufacture, and residential mobility on the northern Channel Islands, and have broad implications for spatial and temporal patterning in prehistoric lithic exploitation.

Reply to Braje and Erlandson

2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Glassow
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Channel Islands ◽  
Sea Otter ◽  
Santa Cruz Island ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Sea Otters ◽  
Red Abalone

Although Braje and Erlandson express concern with my inclusion of Santa Cruz Island sites containing small quantities of red abalone shells with red abalone middens on the other Channel Islands, doing so is justified because of the discrete period of time during which they occur. They also feel that I should have expanded the scope of my paper to include consideration of relationship between sea otters and red abalone, but this was beyond the intent of my report. Nonetheless, I point out that more explication is needed of the nature of sea otter hunting if its effects on red abalone availability are to be understood.

Channel Islands National Park: Paleontological resource inventory (public version)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin S. Tweet ◽  
Vincent L. Santucci ◽  
Kenneth Convery ◽  
Jonathan Hoffman ◽  
Laura Kirn
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Igneous Rocks ◽  
Channel Islands ◽  
Santa Cruz Island ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Resource Inventory ◽  
San Miguel Island ◽  
Santa Rosa Island ◽  
The 19Th Century

Channel Island National Park (CHIS), incorporating five islands off the coast of southern California (Anacapa Island, San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara Island, Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island), has an outstanding paleontological record. The park has significant fossils dating from the Late Cretaceous to the Holocene, representing organisms of the sea, the land, and the air. Highlights include: the famous pygmy mammoths that inhabited the conjoined northern islands during the late Pleistocene; the best fossil avifauna of any National Park Service (NPS) unit; intertwined paleontological and cultural records extending into the latest Pleistocene, including Arlington Man, the oldest well-dated human known from North America; calichified “fossil forests”; records of Miocene desmostylians and sirenians, unusual sea mammals; abundant Pleistocene mollusks illustrating changes in sea level and ocean temperature; one of the most thoroughly studied records of microfossils in the NPS; and type specimens for 23 fossil taxa. Paleontological research on the islands of CHIS began in the second half of the 19th century. The first discovery of a mammoth specimen was reported in 1873. Research can be divided into four periods: 1) the few early reports from the 19th century; 2) a sustained burst of activity in the 1920s and 1930s; 3) a second burst from the 1950s into the 1970s; and 4) the modern period of activity, symbolically opened with the 1994 discovery of a nearly complete pygmy mammoth skeleton on Santa Rosa Island. The work associated with this paleontological resource inventory may be considered the beginning of a fifth period. Fossils were specifically mentioned in the 1938 proclamation establishing what was then Channel Islands National Monument, making CHIS one of 18 NPS areas for which paleontological resources are referenced in the enabling legislation. Each of the five islands of CHIS has distinct paleontological and geological records, each has some kind of fossil resources, and almost all of the sedimentary formations on the islands are fossiliferous within CHIS. Anacapa Island and Santa Barbara Island, the two smallest islands, are primarily composed of Miocene volcanic rocks interfingered with small quantities of sedimentary rock and covered with a veneer of Quaternary sediments. Santa Barbara stands apart from Anacapa because it was never part of Santarosae, the landmass that existed at times in the Pleistocene when sea level was low enough that the four northern islands were connected. San Miguel Island, Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island have more complex geologic histories. Of these three islands, San Miguel Island has relatively simple geologic structure and few formations. Santa Cruz Island has the most varied geology of the islands, as well as the longest rock record exposed at the surface, beginning with Jurassic metamorphic and intrusive igneous rocks. The Channel Islands have been uplifted and faulted in a complex 20-million-year-long geologic episode tied to the collision of the North American and Pacific Places, the initiation of the San Andreas fault system, and the 90° clockwise rotation of the Transverse Ranges, of which the northern Channel Islands are the westernmost part. Widespread volcanic activity from about 19 to 14 million years ago is evidenced by the igneous rocks found on each island.

The centipede Theatops posticus (Say) (Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) in the southwestern United States and Mexico

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. 2637-2644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowland M. Shelley
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Santa Cruz Island ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Southern Nevada ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
The Common ◽  
Northwestern Mexico ◽  
Pacific Species

The common eastern Nearctic centipede Theatops posticus (Say), previously reported once each from Arizona and southern Utah and therefore considered rare in southwestern North America, is widespread in Arizona and newly recorded from southern Nevada, southwestern New Mexico, southern California, and northwestern Mexico (Baja California Norte, Sonora, and Chihuahua); it is even known from Santa Cruz Island in the Pacific Ocean off the southern California coast. The species therefore exhibits a continental distribution pattern, with eastern and western populations segregated by some 1200 km (750 mi) in Texas and New Mexico. Some southwestern individuals exhibit small ventral spurs on the ultimate pre femora and (or) femora, and coxopleurae with slightly elevated, caudally produced medial borders, conditions that are intermediate between those displayed by the eastern population and the congener in California and southern Oregon. Since these variants are also geographically intermediate, they prove that the latter's phenotypic resemblance to Theatops erythrocephalus (C. L. Koch) in southern Europe represents convergence. Consequently, this name is not applicable to the Pacific species, and californiensis Chamberlin is available as its correct specific name.

scholarly journals FEASTING, RITUAL PRACTICES, SOCIAL MEMORY, AND PERSISTENT PLACES: NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF SHELL MOUNDS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn H. Gamble
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Ground Penetrating Radar ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Santa Cruz Island ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Shell Mounds ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ground Penetrating

Shell mounds have not been investigated as prominent ritual features in southern California, despite evidence to the contrary. The largest extant shell mound in the region is on Santa Cruz Island, measures 270 by 210 m (44,532 m² in area), is 8 m higher than the terrace it rests on, is covered with 50 house depressions, and dates to 6000–2500 B.P. In the 1920s, three cemeteries were excavated at the top of El Montón; one young woman stood out among the over 200 individuals in that she was buried with 157 stone effigies. Analysis of multiple lines of evidence, including stratigraphic profiles of features, 85 radiocarbon dates, ground penetrating radar, and mortuary data, supports my claim that the mound was a persistent place where early visitors had significant feasts, constructed dwellings, buried their dead, and performed ceremonies where select groups of infants, children, and adults were revered. These mortuary rites conveyed the symbolic power of the place and created a history of events that became part of a mythical and real past that was repeatedly visited, modified, and (re)interpreted as social relationships were reinforced. This study supports the idea that shell mounds are socially constructed landscapes, not just accumulations of refuse.

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