Final Report on the 1989 Test Excavations at Ca-Hum-176 and Ca-Hum-177 Mouth of the Mattole River Humboldt County, California. Part II of II. (BLM)

In her 1981 report on five coastal prehistoric sites at the mouth of the Matto1e River in southwestern Humboldt County, archaeologist Valerie Levulett made several recommendations for the protection and preservation of these sites (1981:378-380). Attempts to carry out these recommendations by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), is responsible for administering these sites and other resources within the King Range National Conservation Area. The Arcata Resource Area Manager requested in 1989 that additional work be done at two of the sites, CA-HUM-176 and CA-HUM-177. The goals of this work were to test those portions of the sites not examined by Levu1ett, and to determine acceptable alternatives for the management of these two sites, which. This report describes the results of the work, carried out under a Cooperative Management Agreement between the BLM, Sonoma State University, and Santa Rosa Junior College.