Lake County Archaeology

Robert Heizer uses published and unpublished accounts to report on the 1850 massacre that took place at the Pomo village of Badonnapati.  The paper also contains an appendix that reports on Vallejo's 1843 massacre at the southeastern Pomo village of Kamdot.

This report outlines the history of Lake County's longest operating resort and attempts to place the existing structures and features in chronological order.  The report was prepared as a land use planning CEQA document and contains recommended mitigation options in the event that proposed development will encroach on historic resources.  This public report contains no archaeological site location information.

This thesis synthesizes extant information relating to the prehistory of the upper Cache Creek watershed that helps to contextualize prehistoric cultural resources in the Bureau of Land Management Indian Valley/ Walker Ridge Recreation Area (IV/WRRA), Lake and Colusa Counties, California. The purpose is to create an inventory document that provides cultural resource management practitioners and land managers with an informed basis for understanding the study area in terms of the cultural resources, their environment, land use in the past, and the need for further work.

The Hoberg Resort was the longest running, family owned resort in Lake County California.  The resort began in 1895 with a wing of rooms added to the Hoberg farm house.  The resort grew until it finally closed in 1971.  In 1936, during the height of the tourist season, a fire swept through the area burning 80 of the resort's structures .  Burned debris from the fire was dumped next to the main lodge and used as fill for a new addition.  In 2015, the Valley Fire burned all the remaining structures at Hoberg's.  Beneath the Main Lodge, the 1936 deposit of burned cultural material was discovered and excavated.  This material was found to represent resort activities between 1895 and 1936.  This chapter is a descriptive analysis of covering a small portion of that collection.

Four Lake County, California prehistoric sites providing evidence of shell bead manufacture are examined.  Ethnographic data is presented.  Inferences are made concerning the nature of shell bead manufacture as well as the manufacture of the chert bead drill tips.

Hoberg's Resort in Lake County California was the longest, family run, forest resort in Lake County.  Following the resort's destruction by the Valley Fire in 2017, a pocket of cultural material was discovered beneath a concrete slab.  This layer of cultural material was apparently placed there after a 1936 fire that destroyed 80 of the resort buildings.  This time capsule of resort materials represents resort activities between 1890 and 1936

The Hoberg Resort was the longest running, family owned resort in Lake County California.  The resort began in 1895 with a wing of rooms added to the Hoberg farm house.  The resort grew until it finally closed in 1971.  In 1936, during the height of the tourist season, a fire swept through the area burning 80 of the resort's structures .  Burned debris from the fire was dumped next to the main lodge and used as fill for a new addition.  In 2015, the Valley Fire burned all the remaining structures at Hoberg's.  Beneath the Main Lodge, the 1936 deposit of burned cultural material was discovered and excavated.  This material was found to represent resort activities between 1895 and 1936.  This chapter is a descriptive analysis of covering a small portion of that collection.

Much of the contextualizing of the prehistory of the southern portion of the North Coast Ranges cultural region has been based on studies and ethnographies of the Pomo peoples. The Hill Patwin, their neighbors to the east in the periphery between the North Coast and the Central Valley, can greatly contribute to our understanding of the region by illustrating the flow of cultural influences across regional boundaries. This paper argues that instead of simply discussing the Hill Patwin in relation to their Central Valley linguistic kin, they must be included in the discussion of North Coastal peoples and prehistory.