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The Buttonwillow Complex: A Proposed Western Stemmed Tradition Variant in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Pages 235-266 | Published online: 06 Nov 2019
 

ABSTRACT

In the mid-twentieth century, excavations at the Buena Vista Lake site (CA-KER-116) in the southern San Joaquin Valley of California resulted in the identification of a deposit dating from the early Holocene characterized as a San Dieguito variant. This deposit contained several fragmentary points, crescents, faunal remains, and large features consisting of processed freshwater bivalves. Since the 1960s, the Buena Vista Lake site was the sole well-dated example of human occupation in the region during the early Holocene. However, similar materials have recently been identified at the Buttonwillow site (CA-KER-2720) and comparable materials are also known at Tulare Lake. These three examples appear to form a coherent pattern of a Western Stemmed Tradition variant in the southern San Joaquin Valley, a variant proposed here as the Buttonwillow Complex.

RESUMEN

A mediados del siglo XX, las excavaciones en el sitio de Buena Vista Lake (CA-KER-116) en el sur del San Joaquín Valley de California resultaron en la identificación de un depósito que data del Holoceno temprano caracterizado como una variante de San Dieguito. Este depósito contenía varios puntos fragmentarios, crescentes, restos de fauna y grandes elementos que consisten en bivalvos de agua dulce procesados. Desde la década de 1960, el sitio de Buena Vista Lake fue el único ejemplo bien fechado de ocupación humana en la región durante el Holoceno temprano. Sin embargo, recientemente se han identificado materiales similares en el sitio de Buttonwillow (CA-KER-2720) y también se conocen materiales similares en el Tulare Lake. Estos tres ejemplos parecen formar un patrón coherente de una variante de la Tradición Tallo Occidental en el sur de San Joaquín Valley, una variante propuesta aquí como el Complejo Buttonwillow.

Acknowledgments

I appreciate the assistance, comments, and suggestions of Mark Allen, Jill K. Gardner, Leslie Hartzell, Ed Knell, the reviewers, and particularly Mike Moratto and Jeff Rosenthal. Luke Wisner produced the figures.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

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