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Abstract
Researchers have documented some 22 named historic Chumash villages on California's northern Channel Islands. Historic period Chumash sites have so far been confined to the three largest islands (Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel), with none from Anacapa Island. Radiocarbon dating and artifacts from two rockshelters (CA-ANI-18 and CA-ANI-22) provide the first archaeological evidence of Chumash occupation of Anacapa during the historic period. These data expand the known distribution of historic Island Chumash archaeological sites, provide further evidence for contact period occupation of rockshelters, and document diverse historic period island human settlement systems.