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Pictographs of the San Luis Rey Basin, California*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

D. L. True
D. L. True*
Affiliation:
Pauma Valley, California
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The San Luis Rey River flows westward across northern San Diego County, California. The area from Henshaw dam down to and including the Bonsall post office can be described as the central San Luis Rey River basin. It includes a little less than half of the total watershed area but contains many tributary streams and probably accounts for more than half of the total runoff. The area is mountainous and wooded or brush covered and is dissected by numerous small streams, many of which originate in the higher elevations of the Agua Tibia and Palomar mountain ranges.

Ample water supplies and favorable thermal zones which belt the area, coupled with a heavy growth of forest cover along the streams, provided both vegetal and animal food supplies which in turn resulted in more than average aboriginal population. The heaviest concentrations of population were in the areas now known as Pauma Valley, Rincon, The Potrero, and the La Jolla area, all of which still have sizable Indian populations living on reservations. In historic times, the region was occupied by Indians of the Luisefio stock (Kroeber, 1925, p. 648).

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American Antiquity , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , July 1954 , pp. 68 - 72
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1954

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The author wishes to exptess his appreciation to C. W. Meighan, University of California at Los Angeles, who read an earlier version of the manuscript and offered many helpful suggestions.

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