Produced by Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA BY S. F. COOK ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS Vol. 16, No. 2 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS Editors (Berkeley): R. L. Olson, R. F. Heizer, T. D. McCown, J. H. Rowe Volume 16, No. 2, pp. 31-80 6 maps Submitted by editors October 8, 1954 Issued July 11, 1955 Price, 75 cents University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles California Cambridge University Press London, England Manufactured in the United States of America CONTENTS Page Introduction 31 The population of the San Joaquin Valley in approximately 1850 33 Contemporary estimates and counts for the entire region 33 Analysis based upon restricted areas 34 Stanislaus and Tuolumne rivers 34 Merced River, Mariposa Creek, and Chowchilla River 35 The Cosumnes, Mokelumne, and Calaveras rivers 36 The Fresno and the upper San Joaquin rivers 36 The Kings and Kaweah rivers 38 The Tulare Lake basin 40 The Tule River, the Kern River, and the Buenavista Basin 40 The aboriginal population 42 The Tulare Lake basin 42 The Kaweah River 45 The Merced River 48 The Kings River 49 The Upper San Joaquin, Fresno, and Chowchilla rivers and Mariposa Creek 50 The Southern San Joaquin Valley 54 The Northern San Joaquin Valley 56 The Miwok Foothill Area 68 Summary and conclusions 70 Appendix 71 Bibliography 72 MAPS 1. The San Joaquin Valley from the Cosumnes River to the Tehachapi facing page 74 2. Habitat areas 1A-2: the southern Yokuts and peripheral tribes 75 3. Habitat areas 3A-4C: the basins of the Kaweah and Kings rivers 76 4. Habitat areas 5A-6B: the Yokuts, a part of the Mono, and the southern Miwok 76