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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................... 1

II. ABSTRACT ............................................................ 2

III. THE LITERATURE SEARCH PROJECT (G. Stickel) ......................... 4
Project Area ........................................................ 7
Methodology, Methods, Study Problems, and Their Resolutions ......... ?
Project Personnel, Personnel Deployment, Aspects of Field Data
Collection, Synthesis and Report Production ......................... 9
IV. ENVIRONMENTAL BACKGROUND (R. Berger) ............................... 10
Introduction ....................................................... 11
Geographic Features ................................................ 11
Climatic Changes and their Effects ................................. 12
Hydrologic History ............................................... 17
Present Environment ................................................ 19

V. CULTURAL RESOURCE INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH BACKGROUND
(G. Stickel) ....................................................... 22
Summary of Past and Current Work in the Planning Units ............. 23
Museum Collections from the Western Mojave Planning Units .......... 36
Present Research Orientations in the PLanning Units ................ 40

VI. CULTURAL RESOURCE NARRATIVE ........................................ 45
A) Cultural History: Chronology (G. Stickel) ..................... 46
1. Early Systems Period ....................................... 46
2. Mojave I Period ............................................ 50
3. Mojave II Period •.......................................... 53
4. Amargosa I ................................................. 54
5. Amargosa II .........................•...................... 55
6. The Proto-Historic--Historic Mojave ........................ 56

B) Past Lifeways .................................................. 58
1. overview and Characteristics of Prehistoric Human
Settlement in Planning Units (G. Stickel) .................. 59
a. Introduction ........................................... 59
b. Early Systems Period ................................... 60
c. Mojave I Period ........................................ 64
d. Mojave II Period ......•................•............... 68
e . Amargosa I Period ..•............•.................•.... 71
f. Amargosa II Period .•................................... 78
g. Proto-Historic--Historic Mojave Period ................. 80
2. Ethnographic overview (P. Hopa) ............................ 91
a. Preface ................................................ 92
b. Introduction ........................................... 93
c. Ethnographic overview .................................. 9 3
d. The Tataviam ........................................... 95
e. The Vanyume ............................................ 98
f. The Serrano ............................................ 98
g. The Kitanemuk ......................................... 102
h. The Kawaiisu .......................................... 107

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