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Chumash architecturearticle 1995 • Gamble, Lynn Hunter
Late Southern California • North America > Northwest Coast and California
Lynn Gamble reviews the ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological literature, including some of her own work, to identify the distinguishing archaeological characteristics of Chumash houses and sweatlodges. Most of her archaeological examples d...Organization of activities at the historic settlement of Helo'Book 1991 • Gamble, Lynn Hunter
Late Southern California • North America > Northwest Coast and California
Gamble's dissertation discusses her findings from the excavations and analysis at HELO', an ethnohistoric Chumash village. The main findings were two intact house floors, an extremely rare occurrence on the Santa Barbara mainland. The ethnohistoric, ...