[CINC] REMINDER: FSTS Lecture Tonight!

[Shauna Bingham]

November 8, 2012
For Immediate Release
Yvonne Menard, Channel Islands National Park (805) 658-5725

Cave and Artifacts Found on San Nicolas Island

In an upcoming lecture US Navy senior archeologist and historian Steve
Schwartz will tell the story of the remarkable and recent discovery of a
long-sought-after cave on San Nicolas Island that was likely the home of
the “lone woman.”

The “lone woman” is depicted in the nation’s sixth best-selling,
award-winning children’s book *Island of the Blue Dolphins, *a novel based
on the true story of a Native American woman left alone for 18 years on San
Nicolas Island in the mid-1800s.

Schwartz will share a second significant discovery of two Nicoleño redwood
boxes filled with over 200 artifacts fortuitously found during an island
survey. Artifacts included asphaltum- coated water bottles, fish hooks, an
abalone jewelry box with bird bone hairpins and pendants, a bone toggling
harpoon, and various knives and carving tools. These materials,
representative of Nicoleño and Alaskan Native Americans and European
origins, reveal key information about human occupation and interactions on
the island.

San Nicolas Island, one of eight Channel Islands, is located 55 nautical
miles southwest of Ventura County and is an active military facility used
for weapons testing and training.

Schwartz began his career in the Southwest as an archeologist working for
the US Army Corps of Engineers. For the past 25 years he has worked with
the US Navy at Naval Base Ventura County where he has authored numerous
publications about the archeology and history of San Nicolas Island.

This free lecture will be held at *7:00 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012*,
at the Channel Islands National Park Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitor Center,
1901 Spinnaker Drive in the Ventura Harbor. The From Shore to Sea lecture
series is sponsored by Channel Islands National Park to further the
understanding of current research on the Channel Islands and surrounding
waters. Lectures occur the second Wednesday of March, April, May,
September, October, and November.

This publication is available on line at: *
www.nps.gov/chis/parknews/newsreleases.htm*<http://www.nps.gov/chis/parknews/newsreleases.htm>


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Shauna Bingham
NOAA's Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
113 Harbor Way, Suite 150
Santa Barbara, CA 93109
805-884-1460
805-568-1582 (fax)
http://channelislands.noaa.gov/
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