Cultural Keystone Places and the Chumash Landscapes of Kumqaq', Point Conception, California. Issue 3 (July 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Cultural Keystone Places and the Chumash Landscapes of Kumqaq', Point Conception, California. Issue 3 (July 2022)
- Main Title:
- Cultural Keystone Places and the Chumash Landscapes of Kumqaq', Point Conception, California
- Authors:
- Rick, Torben C.
Braje, Todd J.
Graham, Lain
Easterday, Kelly
Hofman, Courtney A.
Holguin, Brian E.
Mychajliw, Alexis M.
Reeder-Myers, Leslie A.
Reynolds, Mark D. - Abstract:
- Abstract : The places in which people live and spend time are steeped in history, memory, and meaning from the intersection of daily life, environmental interactions, cultural practices, and ritual. Geologic features, plants, animals, and ecosystems merge with these cultural histories, forming critical parts of the landscape and areas of "high cultural salience, " or "cultural keystone places" (CKPs). We identify Kumqaq' (Point Conception) and the surrounding area in California as a Chumash CKP. Ethnohistoric accounts and contemporary Chumash community members have long demonstrated the importance of Point Conception in Chumash worldview and identity, whereas biologists, ecologists, and conservationists reference the area's rich biodiversity and significance as a biogeographical boundary. Recent archaeological survey of the coastline surrounding Kumqaq' highlights these connections, identifying over 50 archaeological sites—including shell middens, villages, lithic scatters, and rock art—with at least 9, 000 years of occupation. Ongoing collaborations among archaeologists, the Nature Conservancy, and Chumash community members help document and understand the long-term linkages between cultural and biological diversity and how integrating these perspectives can help ensure the resilience of this nexus of human and natural history in the Anthropocene future.
- Is Part Of:
- American antiquity. Volume 87:Issue 3(2022)
- Journal:
- American antiquity
- Issue:
- Volume 87:Issue 3(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 87, Issue 3 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 87
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0087-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 487
- Page End:
- 504
- Publication Date:
- 2022-07
- Subjects:
- landscape archaeology -- historical ecology -- archaeological survey -- radiocarbon dating -- Anthropocene
arqueología del paisaje -- ecología histórica -- reconocimiento arqueológica -- datación por radiocarbono -- Antropoceno
North America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals
America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals
Archaeology -- North America -- Periodicals
Archaeology -- America -- Periodicals
Anthropology -- America -- Periodicals
North America -- History -- Periodicals
America -- History -- Periodicals
Periodicals
970 - Journal URLs:
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/all-issues ↗
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00027316.html ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1017/aaq.2021.154 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0002-7316
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
- View Content:
- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD Digital store
- Ingest File:
- 22247.xml