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Chumash architecture: sweat lodges and houses
Journal of California and Great Basin anthropology • 17 (1) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 54-92
By: Gamble, Lynn Hunter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 date from the Late to Historic Periods. She determines sweatlodges tended to be larger than houses, lacked interior storage, had larger interior posts, had been burned, often had plastered floors and interior rims, and usually had their hearths in the southern section of the structure. Post holes for houses tend to be more numerous and most will be found along the outside rim of the floor. Smaller post holes found in the interior of the floor were probably used for beds or to create sleeping partitions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Prehistory
- Dwellings
- Outbuildings
- Furniture
- Building interiors and arrangement
- Heating and lighting equipment
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Late Southern California
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1970 and 1986-1987
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1700 BP - 190 BP (A.D. 300 - A.D. 1810)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chumash, Calif., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lynn Gamble
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80640525
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- California--Antiquities