An Early Late Holocene Site on the Edge of the Oxnard Plain, Ventura County, Alta California

Multi-scalar foraging decisions in the Santa Barbara Channel, southern California

“…In the eastern part of the SBC, abundant freshwater and high terrestrial productivity have been attractive to forager, agricultural, and urban populations for the past few thousand years. The absence of sites in the central parts of Santa Barbara and throughout Ventura and Oxnard suggest that urbanization and agricultural activity on the SBC mainland have seriously impaired our ability to discern patterns in the archaeological record (see also Delaney-Rivera and Wlodarski, 2010). Moreover, the Ventura and Santa Clara rivers have distributed tens of meters of sediment on their floodplains during the Holocene, increasing near the river mouths (Draut et al, 2009).…”