Notice2024-26084
Notice of Inventory Completion: The San Diego Archaeological Center, San Diego, CA
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Published
November 12, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San Diego Archaeological Center has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 218 (Tuesday, November 12, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 89033-89034]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-26084]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038989; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: The San Diego Archaeological
Center, San Diego, 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 San Diego Archaeological Center has
completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated
funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after December 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Stephanie Sandoval, Executive Director, The San Diego
Archaeological Center, 16666 San Pasqual Valley Road, Escondido, CA
92027, telephone (760) 291-0370, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e89b829b89868c879e8984a89b89868c818d8f87899a8b80898d8784878f91c6879a8f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d1a2bba2b0bfb5bea7b0bd91a2b0bfb5b8b4b6beb0a3b2b9b0b4bebdbeb6a8ffbea3b6">[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 the
San Diego Archaeological Center, and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing at
least one individual has been reasonably identified and a Notice of
Inventory Completion was published in the Federal Register on October
7, 2008 (73 FR 58628). The 49 additional associated funerary objects
related to these human remains are ceramic effigy, figurines, and pipe
fragments; faunal bone bird talon; ground stone figurine fragment;
crystals; ochre and hematite fragments. The site was excavated in 1989
by CRM firm ERC Environmental and Energy Services Co. as part of a
cultural assessment program before development of the property.
Artifacts were found and excavated in compliance with mitigation as
required pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
The site was described in the report as a village. The report does not
reference an individual Native American monitor who served the project
but refers to the assistance of Luise[ntilde]o representatives from the
Rincon reservation in the completion of the project. During the
project, researchers met with three Rincon elders for an interview
concerning several artifacts. The site report states that the site
falls within the traditional Luise[ntilde]o territory.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available, cultural affiliation is
reasonably identified by the geographical location or acquisition
history of the associated funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The San Diego Archaeological Center has determined that:
<bullet> The 49 associated funerary objects described in this
notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally 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 reasonable connection between the associated
funerary objects described in this notice and the La Jolla Band of
Luiseno Indians; Pala Band of Mission Indians; Pauma Band of Luiseno
Mission Indians of the Pauma & Yuima Reservation, California; Pechanga
Band of Indians (previously listed as Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission
Indians of the Pechanga Reservation, California); Rincon Band of
Luiseno Mission Indians of the Rincon Reservation, California; Soboba
Band of Luiseno Indians, California; and the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of
Mission Indians of California.
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Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary
objects in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative
identified in this notice under 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 associated funerary objects in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after December 12, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received, the San Diego Archaeological
Center must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the associated
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The San Diego Archaeological Center is responsible for
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: October 29, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-26084 Filed 11-8-24; 8:45 am]
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