tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540283839479085577.post3065055549388854461..comments2023-06-28T04:54:16.142-07:00Comments on Anthroslug the Much Put-Upon: The Pottery PuzzleAnthroslughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12455234504938025982noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540283839479085577.post-19377467428815992152017-03-14T15:00:52.697-07:002017-03-14T15:00:52.697-07:00No one accuses the Chumash Natives of lacking apti...No one accuses the Chumash Natives of lacking aptitude for anything they did. They lived from Malibu up to Paso Robles and on all the Northern Santa Barbara Channel Islands. The also lived inland to the San Bernardino Mtns. They were the only people in the Americas who were a true Martime culture who built seagoing Planked Boats called Tomols. They Made the only known monetary currency in California that was made on Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Island and used by all California Natives and in surrounding areas. They had huge trade networks all thru out the South West. They had a complex hierarchal society, that was the most powerful and wealthy with around 30,000 people that spoke the Chumashan isolate language. That impressed the Spanish tremendously. By the time the Americans and American Archeaologists showed up they were pretty much decimated and poverty stricken. This would be like going to a Jewish concentration camp, not knowing what the context was and what brought them there, and decided to study their Culture, language, and material goods, and deciding this was the extent of their society and that they have always been hungry, sick, dirty, and poor. This is exactly how the new Americans saw the Chumash and all other California Natives when the invading hordes of immigrants showed up in California. What they saw were the remaining survivors of the Mission system, the Gold Rush, the Land grabs, and the state funded California Militias. California had the most population density in North America, the most language diversity that after years of murder and disease that went from 3 Million to 15,000. Pottery is over rated anyways.NKent805https://www.blogger.com/profile/06311041906627739245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540283839479085577.post-15724956073162938562017-03-14T14:14:16.301-07:002017-03-14T14:14:16.301-07:00That practical for some people like the Seafaring ...That practical for some people like the Seafaring Chumash and other California tribes. It wasn't because the were nomadic, because the Chumash and most other california natives were most definitely sedentary people.NKent805https://www.blogger.com/profile/06311041906627739245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540283839479085577.post-4896761846966123652017-03-14T14:11:44.936-07:002017-03-14T14:11:44.936-07:00Why is it weird because they didn't make potte...Why is it weird because they didn't make pottery? The Chumash and other Southern California Natives were the Americas best Basket weavers. It was more lightweight than pottery, and so tightly coiled and lined with Asphaltum for water proofing it didn't leak. California Basketry was and still is sought out by the worlds leading museums. Pottery is just not that NKent805https://www.blogger.com/profile/06311041906627739245noreply@blogger.com