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Daisy Cave. Coordinates: 34.0391°N 120.3231°W. Location of the Daisy Cave on San Miguel Island. Daisy Cave, also known as CA-SMI-261, is an archeological site located on San Miguel Island in California. San Miguel Island is the westernmost island in a larger island chain dubbed the Channel Islands. [1]
We provide detailed contextual information on 25 14 C dates for unusually well-preserved archaeological and paleontological remains from Daisy Cave. Paleontological materials, including faunal and floral remains, have been recovered from deposits spanning roughly the past 16,000 yr, while archaeological materials date back to ca. 10,500 BP.
- Jon M. Erlandson, Douglas J. Kennett, B. Lynn Ingram, Daniel A. Guthrie, Don P. Morris, Mark A. Tves...
- 1996
Daisy Cave is located just above an isolated, rough and rocky stretch of shoreline on the northeast coast of San Miguel Island. The cave appears to have been formed during the Pleistocene by marine erosion associated with a high interglacial sea stand.
- Jon M. Erlandson, Douglas J. Kennett, B. Lynn Ingram, Daniel A. Guthrie, Don P. Morris, Mark A. Tves...
- 1996
- 1926 Expedition to San Nicolas Island
- Early Fieldwork in California and Arizona, 1928-1929
- Los Angeles Museum-Channel Islands Biological Survey,1939-1941
- San Miguel Island Fieldwork,1960S and 1970s
When the Museum opened in 1913 there was no formal Anthropology Department though some of the first acquisitions to the Museum were of an archaeological and ethnographic nature. Museum archives mention that by 1925, C. W. Hatton, was an early Curator of History, and a member of the Museum's "Indian Department," a forerunner of the Anthropology Depa...
In 1928 Arthur Woodward was hired as a Curator of History and Anthropology. He soon began archaeological field surveys with some limited excavations in California and Arizona. This fieldwork was based on tracing known Chumash village sites gathered from early Spanish historical accounts. This research was confined to private land with landowner per...
From 1939 to 1941, Woodward was involved with the Los Angeles Museum-Channel Islands Biological Survey. This survey involved Natural History Museum staff from various disciplines studying the biology, history, and archaeology of the Channel Islands. Woodward worked on the archaeological sites of San Clemente, San Miguel, San Nicolas, Santa Cruz, an...
Charles E. Rozaire began working for the Museum in 1965. Prior to his tenure with the Natural History Museum Charles worked at the Southwest Museum and conducted excavation and testing on San Nicolas and San Miguel Islands. His primary responsibility upon being hired as a Curator at the Natural History Museum was to create and install a hall depict...
Sep 16, 2020 · Here we illustrate the use of such an integrative approach and report the occurrence of North America’s largest terrestrial mammalian carnivore, the short-faced bear, Arctodus simus, from Daisy...
- Alexis M. Mychajliw, Torben C. Rick, Nihan D. Dagtas, Jon M. Erlandson, Brendan J. Culleton, Douglas...
- 2020
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Learn about the Chumash people who lived on San Miguel Island, one of the northern Channel Islands, for thousands of years. Discover their culture, history, and archeological remains, including Daisy Cave, where fishhooks and line were used 11,500 years ago.
Pieces of cordage have been found in strata dated as early as 9,900 years ago. The woven artifacts from Daisy Cave roughly double the antiquity of such objects from the Pacific Coast of North America and add significantly to our knowledge of early Holocene technologies along the California coast.
