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Observations regarding Chartkoff's California “Rock Feature Complex”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Stephen C. Jett
Stephen C. Jett*
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Department of Geography, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
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Abstract

Trailside cairns created by Yuroks on religious journeys to mountaintops are shown to be a special case of the extremely widespread practice of establishing cairn trail shrines to which passers-by add stones. Specific comparative data are provided for the California culture area.

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American Antiquity , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , July 1986, pp. 615 - 616
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1986

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