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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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry ; 1998
- Field Date
- 1969-1970 and 1986-1987
- Coverage Date
- 1700 BP - 190 BP (A.D. 300 - A.D. 1810)
- Coverage Place
- Chumash, Calif., United States
- Notes
- Lynn Gamble
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92)
- LCCN
- 80640525
- LCSH
- California--Antiquities