Final Report on 1he 1987 Archaeological Excavations At Ca-Hum-182, Shelter Cove, Humboldt County, California (BLM)

This report describes the results of data recovery excavations at CA-HUM-182 on the Humboldt County coast in the spring and summer of 1987. The excavation was carried out by students and faculty from Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College, with the aid of volunteers and staff archaeologists from the Bureau of Land Management. A total of 113 artifacts were recovered, along with large quantities of shellfish remains and smaller amounts of terrestrial and marine faunal bone. Areas known to have contained human burials were avoided and no human remains were encountered. The materials recovered during the 1987 excavations provided little new data on site chronology, obsidian exchange, or seasonality; instead, they only served to confirm the conclusions reached by Levulett (1985) from her earlier work at the site. CA-HUM-182 appears to be the remnants of a late-period food (primarily shellfish) processing site or group of loci, similar to several other late sites on the King Range coast, at least one of which also contained human remains.