Scholar Webinar

June 20, 2020

2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

We are pleased to host a webinar featuring two 2019 scholarship recipients. They will talk about their research and the experiences made possible by our scholarship. The webinar is Free and open to all. We encourage non-members to register through registration@sacarchaeology.org .

2:00 p.m. – “Analysis of residence during the early period (ca. 5000-2500 BP) in lower Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Delta” by Candice Ralson

 3:00 p.m. – “Sierra Nevada and Great Basin Excavations – My Experiences” by Jonathan Garcia

Candice Ralson

Candice is a PhD candidate at University of California, Davis. She used the scholarship to fund stable carbon, nitrogen and oxygen analysis of 30 human bone samples.  This analysis, along with others such as strontium and sulfur of human bone and teeth will be used to complete her dissertation research which aims to investigate post-marital residence and sexual division of labor for Early Period (ca. 5000-2500 BP) populations from the lower Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Delta.  Her samples come from archaeological sites CA-SAC-107 (the Windmiller Mound) and CA-SJO-68 (the Blossom Mound).  With stable oxygen analysis of human bone apatite results she can estimate where a person lived approximately 5-15 years prior to death.

Jonathan Garcia

Jonathan graduated from Sonoma State University in 2019.  He used the scholarship to attend a Chico Archaeological Field School.  This field school involved the excavation of a historic Native American village in the Northern Sierras and Great Basin.