PCAS - Pacific Coast Archaeological Society
The Pacific Coast Archaeological Society (PCAS) is an avocational organization dedicated to the study, protection, and preservation of the cultural resources of the southern Pacific coast region, including the Baja Peninsula, with a special focus on Orange County, California.
Go to www.pcas.org for more information on PCAS activities, including:
• Monthly Lecture Series
• Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly
• PCAS Newsletter
• Scholarships
• Field Trips
The Archaeology, Genetics, and Environments of the First South Americans - by Dr. Tom D. Dillehay
Fire, Salt, Ceramics, and Commerce on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mesoamerica - Dr. Hector Neff
Maize Domestication and Dispersal in the Americas - Dr. Douglas J. Kennett
Context is Everything: Ruppia cirrhosa and Dating the White Sands Footprints
Triangular Geoglyphs near Afton Canyon—A Multidisciplinary Investigation - Michael Tucker
Alpine Obsidian Quarries and Perishable Artifacts from the Mt. Edziza Volcanic Complex, Canada
Mapping Chumash Communities -- Dr. John R. Johnson
CA-ORA-64: Background, Data and What's Next - Michael E. Macko
Managing Cultural Resources at Mojave National Preserve - David Nichols - Archaeologist, Mojave NP
Seeing Rock Art through the Eyes of the Elders - David Lee - Western Rock Art Research
Evidence for 18 ka Human Occupation at Rimrock Draw Rockshelter, Harney County, Oregon
Relics and Tales of Moulton Ranch
Late Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas: Integrating Genetics and Archaeology
Night of the Ninth Sun: The Aztec Sun Stone In Light of the New Fire Ceremony of AD 1507
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Excavation and Pedagogy at the Historic Bonita Camp Site on the UCI Campus - Dr. Ian Straughn
Genetic Evidence for Ancient Population Shifts and Migrations in Central and Southern California
Relic Hunters: Archaeology and the Public in Nineteenth-Century America - Dr. James E. Snead
Paleoindian Land Use at Pluvial Lake Mojave in California’s Mojave Desert - Dr. Edward J. Knell
Clovis Archaeology Across the Greater Southwest
Where We Bow Our Heads
José Francisco Ortega and Maria Antonia Carrillo de Ortega — Spain’s Alta California Early Frontier
A Surprise Encounter with 37,000-Year-Old Mammoths in My Backyard
The Experimental Archaeology of Olivella Shell Bead Making
Old Site Records and a New Perspective on Prehistoric Settlement Stability
Tracking the First Americans - White Sands
Chendytes lawi: Big Lessons from a Little Duck