Merced County Streams Project, Haystack Reservoir, California Intensive Cultural Resources Survey.
Abstract
Four prehistoric midden sites were found and recorded within the reservoir boundaries, and one midden was located just outside the project boundaries. All have been recommended for nomination to the National Register. Mitigative alternatives are predicated upon the status of the project, and projected impacts, and the nature of the resources. The potential impacts to the resources are of two kinds: destruction by construction activities, and inundation. Preservation was emphasized as the best mitigative alternative; if not possible, then the mitigative measures proposed were based upon the degree of expected impacts. The results of the survey were hampered by a lack of temporally diagnostic artifacts. The overall consensus of the data argues for a late manifestation in the Upper Emergent Period for all of the prehistoric resources found, but whether Miwok or Yokuts could not be established from the surficial evidence.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 25, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA127194