Notice2024-01536
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
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Published
January 26, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Solano County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 18 (Friday, January 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-01536]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037279; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Davis,
Davis, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Davis (UC
Davis) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated
funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Solano
County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after February 26, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA Project Manager, University of
California, Davis, 412 Mrak Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616,
telephone (530) 752-8501, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2d4043424f41486d584e494c5b445e03484958"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ea87848588868faa9f898e8b9c8399c48f8e9f">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of UC
Davis. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related records held by UC Davis.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals were
removed from Solano County, CA. In 1973, CA-SOL-271 was excavated by
Helen Clough as part of a UC Davis Field School (UC Davis Accession
66). In 1999, the same site was excavated again by UC Davis
Anthropology Graduate Student, Eric Wohlgemuth (UC Davis Accession
537). There are 1,330 lots of associated funerary objects. Of that
number, 1,316 funerary objects have been located and 14 objects are
currently missing. UC Davis continues to look for the missing
associated funerary objects. The 1,316 located funerary objects are
three lots consisting of worked shell (including beads and pendants);
28 lots consisting of worked bone (awls, whistles, and other worked
bone); five lots consisting of stone beads; 115 lots consisting of
projectile points, bifaces, and other chipped stone; 132 lots
consisting of groundstone; 333 lots consisting of debitage; 162 lots
consisting of worked stone; 19 lots consisting of baked clay/ceramics;
320 lots consisting of unmodified animal bone; 94 lots consisting of
unmodified shell; 23 lots consisting of charcoal, ash, and ochre; five
lots consisting of mixed bone, shell and seeds; 18 lots consisting of
plant material (seeds, nuts, acorn caps); and 59 lots consisting of
flotations, fire affected rock, soil, and unmodified stone. The 14
currently missing associated funerary objects are one lot consisting of
worked shell; one lot consisting of worked bone; four projectile
points; one lot consisting of debitage; one lot consisting of worked
stone; three lots consisting of unmodified animal bone; one lot
consisting of unmodified shell; and one lot consisting of unmodified
stone; and one lot consisting of unknown material.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity
between the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures
and one or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The
following types of information were used to reasonably trace the
relationship: anthropological, archeological, geographical, historical,
linguistics, and oral tradition.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, UC Davis has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 1,330 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed with or near individual human remains at
the time of death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun
Indians of the Colusa Indian Community of the Colusa Rancheria,
California; Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation of the Cortina Rancheria
(Previously listed as Kletsel Dehe Band of Wintun Indians); and the
Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after February 26, 2024.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, UC Davis must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing
requests. UC Davis is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to
the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
This notice was submitted before the effective date of the revised
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12,
2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the Federal
Register and includes the required information, the National Park
Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: January 18, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-01536 Filed 1-25-24; 8:45 am]
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