PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY
1988-2004
“A Retrospective View of Archaeological Research on the Mendocino National Forest”
Greg Greenway
Abstract
During the past 25 years, archaeological research on the Mendocino National Forest has provided important contributions to our understanding of the prehistory of the North Coast Ranges and northern California. This paper highlights some of the contributions this research has made in the development of settlement and subsistence models, chronology, obsidian exchange and land use patterns, environmental reconstructions, and other foundations of our current understanding of the region's prehistory. New directions of recent research are also discussed.