JOHN R. JOHNSON Curriculum Vitae Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 2559 Puesta del Sol Santa Barbara, CA 93105 E-mail:
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Education 1988
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
1983
M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
1972
B.A. with highest honors, University of California, Santa Barbara
Employment Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 1986–present
Curator of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara 2007–present
Adjunct Professor and Lecturer in Anthropology
2004–2006
Lecturer in Anthropology
1978–1985
Assistant Curator
Los Padres National Forest 1985–1986
Forest Archaeologist
1976–1978
Archaeologist, Los Padres National Forest
Peer-Reviewed Publications 2013
Lengua de los Llanos: A Northern Valley Yokuts Catechism from Misión Santa Cruz, Alta California (with N. S. H. Smith [first author]). STUF: Language Typology and Universals 66 (3):299-313. Germany: Akademie Verlag.
2013
People of the Sky: Birds in Chumash Culture (with J. Timbrook [first author]). In: Explorations in Ethnobiology: The Legacy of Amadeo Rea, M. Quinlan and D. Lepofsky, eds., pp. 223-271. Denton, TX: Society of Ethnobiology.
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Sociopolitical Effects of Bow and Arrow Technology in Prehistoric Coastal California (with D. J. Kennett [first author], P. M. Lambert, and B. J. Culleton). Evolutionary Anthropology 22:124-132.
2012
A Land of Diversity: Genetic Insights into Ancestral Origins (with B. M. Kemp, C. Monroe, and J. G. Lorenz). In: Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology, T. L. Jones and J. E. Perry, eds., pp. 49-72. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
2011
Stable Isotope Analysis of Dog, Fox, and Human Diets at a Late Holocene Chumash Village (CA-SRI-2) on Santa Rosa Island, California (with T. C. Rick [first author], B. J. Culleton, C. B. Smith, and D. J. Kennett). Journal of Archaeological Science 38:1385-1393.
2010
Genetics and the Castas of Colonial California (with J. G. Lorenz). In: Alta California: Peoples in Motion, Identities in Formation, S. W. Hackel, ed., pp. 157193. San Marino: Huntington Library.
2009
Archaeoastronomical Implications of a Northern Chumash Arborglyph (with R. W. Saint-Onge [first author] and J. R. Talaugon). Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 29(1):29-57.
2009
Shock-Synthesized Hexagonal Diamonds in Younger Dryas Boundary Sediments (with D. J. Kennett [first author], J. P. Kennett, A. West, G. J. West, T. E. Bunch, B. J. Culleton, J. M. Erlandson, S. S. Que Hee, C. Mercer, F. Shen, M. Sellers, T. W. Stafford, Jr, A. Stich, J. C. Weaver, J. H. Wittke, and W. S. Wolbach). Proceedngs of the National Academy of Sciences, July 20, 2009 106:12623-12628.
2008
Wildfire and Abrupt Ecosystem Disruption on California’s Northern Channel Islands at the Ållerød-Younger Dryas Boundary (13.0-12.9 ka) (with D. J. Kennett [first author], J. P. Kennett, G. J. West, J. M. Erlandson, I. L. Hendy, A. West, B. J. Culleton, T. L. Jones, and T. W. Stafford, Jr.). Quaternary Science Reviews 27:2530-2545.
2007
Ethnohistoric Descriptions of Chumash Warfare. In: North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence, R. Chacon and R. Mendoza, eds., pp. 74-113. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
2007
Genetic Analysis of Early Holocene Skeletal Remains from Alaska and Its Implications for the Settlement of the Americas (with B. M. Kemp [first author], R. S. Malhi, J. McDonough, D. A. Bolnick, J. A. Eshleman, O. Rickards, C. Martinez-Labarga, J. G. Lorenz, E. J. Dixon, T. E. Fifield, T. H. Heaton, R. Worl, and D. G. Smith). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132:605-621.
2007
Toypurina’s Descendants: Three Generations of an Alta California Family (with W. M. Williams). Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association 24(2):30-55.
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Genetics, Linguistics, and Prehistoric Migrations: An Analysis of California Indian Mitochondrial DNA Lineages (with J. G. Lorenz). Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 26(1):33-64.
2006
On the Ethnolinguistic Identity of the Napa Tribe: The Implications of Chief Constancio Occaye’s Narratives As Recorded by Lorenzo G. Yates. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 26(2):193-204.
2004
Mission Records and Descendants of Xonxon’ata (with D. Houghtaling). In: Xonxon’ata, in the Tall Oaks: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of a Chumash Village in the Santa Ynez Valley, W. R. Hildebrandt, ed., pp. 13–25 and Appendix A. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Contributions in Anthropology 2.
2004
Mitochondrial DNA and Prehistoric Settlements: Native Migrations on the Western Edge of North America (with J. A. Eshleman [first author], R. S. Malhi, F. A. Kaestle, J. G. Lorenz, and D. G. Smith). Human Biology 76(1):55-75.
2004
Style, Context, and Chronology of a Wooden Canoe Model from Santa Rosa Island, California (with T. C. Rick [first author], J. M. Erlandson, and L H. Gamble). Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 24(2): 301-307.
2003
For Everything There is a Season: Chumash Indian Births, Marriages, and Deaths at the Alta California Missions (with P. L. Walker [first author]). In: Human Biologists in the Archives: Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations, D. A. Herring and A. C. Swedlund, eds., pp. 53–77. Cambridge University Press.
2003
Native American mtDNA Prehistory in the American Southwest (with R. S. Malhi [first author], H. M. Mortensen, J. A. Eshleman, B. M. Kemp, J. G. Lorenz, F. A. Kaestle, C. Gorodezky, and D. G. Smith). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 120:108–124.
2002
The Structure of Diversity within New World mtDNA Haplogroups: Implications for the Prehistory of North America (with R. S. Malhi [first author], J. A. Eshleman, J. A. Greenberg, D. A. Weiss, B. A. S. Shook, F. A. Kaestle, J. G. Lorenz, B. M. Kemp and D. G. Smith). The American Journal of Human Genetics 70:905–919.
2001
Ethnohistoric Reflections of Cruzeño Chumash Society. In: The Origins of a Pacific Coast Chiefdom: The Chumash of the Channel Islands, J. E. Arnold, ed., pp. 53–70. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2000
Historic Chumash Settlement on Eastern Santa Cruz Island, Southern California (with D. J. Kennett [first author], T. C. Rick, D. P. Morris and J. Christy). Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 22(2):212–222.
2000
Mat’apxwelxwel Ethnohistory. In: Archaeological Passages: A Volume in Honor of Claude Nelson Warren, J. S. Schneider, R. M. Yohe, and J. K. Gardner, eds., pp.
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24–39. Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology Publications in Archaeology 1. 2000
Social Responses to Climate Change among the Chumash Indians of South-Central California. In: The Way the Wind Blows: Climate, History and Human Action, R. J. McIntosh, J. A. Tainter, and S. K. McIntosh, eds., pp. 301–327. New York: Columbia University Press.
1999
Contributions to Luiseño Ethnohistory Based on Mission Register Research (with D. Crawford). Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 33(4):79–102.
1998
The Chumash and Their Predecessors: An Annotated Bibliography (with M. Holmes [first author]). Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Contributions in Anthropology 1.
1997
The Indians of Mission San Fernando. In: Mission San Fernando Rey de España, 1797–1997: A Bicentennial Tribute, D. Nunis, Jr., ed., Southern California Quarterly, 79(3): 249–290.
1994
Missionization among the Coastal Chumash of Central California: A Study of Risk Minimization Strategies (with D. O. Larson [first author] and J. C. Michaelsen). American Anthropologist, 96(2):263–299.
1993
The Decline of the Chumash Indian Population (with P. L. Walker [first author]). In: In the Wake of Contact: Biological Responses to Conquest, C. S. Larsen and G. R. Milner, eds., New York: Wiley-Liss, pp. 109–120.
1993
The Chumash and the Swordfish (with D. Davenport [first author] and J. Timbrook). Antiquity, 67(255):257–272.
1992
Effects of Contact on the Chumash Indians (with P. L. Walker [first author]). In: Verano, J. W., and D. H. Ubelaker, eds., Disease and Demography in the Americas, pp. 127–139. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
1991
The Papers of John P. Harrington at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (with A. Miller and L. Agren). Anthropological Linguistics, 33(4):367–378.
1990
Tataviam Geography and Ethnohistory (with D. D. Earle). Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 12(2):191–214.
1989
The Chumash and the Missions. In: Columbian Consequences, Vol. 1, "Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West," David Hearst Thomas (editor), pp. 365–375. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
1988
Age and Sex Biases in the Preservation of Human Skeletal Remains (with P. Walker [first author] and P. Lambert). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 76:183–188.
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Mission Registers as Anthropological Questionnaires: Understanding Limitations of the Data. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 12(2):9–30.
1982
The Trail to Fernando. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 4:132–138.
1982
Vegetation Burning by the Chumash (with J. Timbrook [first author] and D. Earle). Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 4:163–186.
1978
The Trail to Kashtiq. The Journal of California Anthropology, 5:188–198.
Ph.D. Dissertation and M.A. Thesis 1988
Chumash Social Organization: An Ethnohistoric Perspective. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms.
1982
An Ethnohistoric Study of the Island Chumash. Unpublished M.A. thesis. University of California, Santa Barbara.
Publications in Conference and Symposia Proceedings 2006
The Various Chinigchinich Manuscripts of Father Gerónimo Boscana. In: San Diego, Alta California, and the Borderlands: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the California Mission Studies Association, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, February 17-19, 2006, R. M. Beebe and R. M. Senkewicz, eds., pp. 1-19. California Mission Studies Association, Santa Clara.
2005
Mammoths and Humans as Late Pleistocene Contemporaries on Santa Rosa Island (with L. D. Agenbroad [first author], D. P. Morris, and T. W. Stafford, Jr.). In: Proceedings of the Sixth California Islands Symposium, D. A. Garcelon and C. A. Schwemm, eds., pp. 3-7. Institute for Wildlife Studies, Arcata.
2002
Arlington Springs Revisited (with T. W. Stafford, Jr., H. O. Ajie, and D. P. Morris). In: Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium, D. R. Brown, K. L. Mitchell and H. W. Chaney, eds., pp. 541–545. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara.
2002
The Social History of Native Islanders Following Missionization (with S. McLendon). In: Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium, D. R. Brown, K. L. Mitchell and H. W. Chaney, eds., pp. 646–653. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara.
2000
The Uniqueness of California’s Ethnohistoric Record. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology, Vol. 13, pp. 1–10. Fresno: Society for California Archaeology.
1993
The Chumash Indians after Secularization. In: The Spanish Missionary Heritage of the United States: Selected Papers and Commentaries from the November 1990
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Quincentenary Symposium, H. Benoist and M. Flores, eds., pp. 143–164. San Antonio: National Park Service and Los Compadres de San Antonio Mission Historical Park. 1993
Cruzeño Chumash Social Geography. In: Archaeology on the Northern Channel Islands of California, M. A. Glassow, ed., pp. 19–46. Salinas: Coyote Press.
1990
Chumash Social Geography: A Quantitative Analysis. In: Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology, Vol. 3, pp. 149–173. San Diego: Society for California Archaeology.
1986
Mescalitan Island Archaeology and the Canalino Period of Santa Barbara Channel Prehistory (with M. Glassow [first author] and J. Erlandson). In: Symposium: A New Look at Some Old Sites. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 6.
1981
The Adequacy of Research Designs and the Adequacy of Mitigation Programs (with M. Glassow [first author] and L. Wilcoxon). American Society for Conservation Archaeology Proceedings 1981, Michael Moratto (editor), pp. 5–12.
Encylopedia and Source Book Entries in press
Exploration and Colonization in California (with J. Costello [first author]). In: Coastal California: A Land of Diversity [tentative title], L. H. Gamble, ed. Santa Fe: SAR Press (submitted).
2010
Juana Basilia Sitmelelene (Chumash) (with J. Timbrook, E. Ygnacio-De Soto, and N. Sandoval). In: Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, C. R. Ganteaume, ed., pp. 212-214. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, for National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
2009
Spanish and Mexican Colonization of Alta California. In: Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia, F. P. McManamon, L. S. Cordell, K. G. Lightfoot, and G. R. Milner, eds., vol. 4, pp. 35-40. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.
2008
Channel Islands National Park. In: American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook, F. H. Kennedy, ed., pp. 240-241. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
2001
Late Southern California (with S. Berry). In: Encyclopedia of Prehistory, P. N. Peregrine and M. Ember, eds., vol. 6: North America, pp. 297–305. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
1994
Chumash. In: Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia, M. B. Davis, ed., New York: Garland, pp. 112–113.
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Kitanemuk. In: Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia, M. B. Davis, ed., New York: Garland, pp. 290–291.
Short Commentaries and Other Contributions 2012
In Memoriam: Alan Kelsey Brown. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 32(1):1-8.
2011
The Earliest European Contacts with the Chumash Islanders. Mains’l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History 47(1&2):38-45.
2010
The Indians of Mission Santa Bárbara, by M. Geiger, Second edition, revised by J. R. Johnson. Santa Barbara: Old Mission.
2009
On “Seeing” Chumash Rock Art: A Response to Lee and Hyder (with R. W. SaintOnge [first author]). Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 29(2):199-200.
2005
A Gallery in Honor of Chumash Ancestors. Chumash! Magazine (Fall 2005):1215.
2005
Introduction [2005 Edition]. In: Chinigchinich: A Revised and Annotated Version of Alfred Robinson’s Translation of Father Gerónimo Boscana’s Historical Account of the Beliefs, Usages, Customs, and Extravagancies of the Indians of this Mission of San Juan Capistrano, annotated by J. P. Harrington, pp. v-viii. Banning: Malki Museum Press.
2005
Contributor to: The Sugar Bear Story: A Barbareño Chumash Tale by M. J. Yee and E. Ygnacio-De Soto (with M. Mithun). Sunbelt Publications, San Diego.
2004
Contributor to: The Diary and Copybook of William E. P. Hartnell: Visitador General of Alta California in 1839 and 1840 (with G. J. Farris, R. Milliken, R. M. Beebe, and R. Senkewicz), Starr Pait Gurke, translator, Glenn J. Farris, ed. California Mission Studies Association, Santa Clara, and Arthur H. Clark Co., Spokane.
2004
Early Humans in the Americas. Mammoth Trumpet 20(1):8-10. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University, College Station.
2003
Mystery of the Little Monsters (with J. Timbrook [first author]). California Wild 56(3):28–32.
2003
Will the “Real” Chumash Please Stand Up? The Context for a Radic’al Perception of Chumash Identity. Acta Americana 11(1):70-72.
2002
California’s Chumash Indians (with L. McCall [first author], R. Perry, L. Roche, P. Hoeft, J. Timbrook, P. Campbell, and N. Miller). Revised edition. EZ Nature Books, San Luis Obispo.
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Ethnographic/Ethnohistoric Context (with R. Milliken [first author]). In: Prehistoric Occupations on Ancient Halcyon Bay/Estuary, D. Jones, D. C. Young and W. Hildebrandt, eds., pp. 17–32. San Luis Obispo Archaeological Society Occasional Paper No. 15.
1999
Prominent Indian Families at Mission La Purísima Concepción as Identified in Baptismal, Marriage, and Burial Records (with G. J. Farris [first author]). California Mission Studies Association Occasional Paper 3.
1997
Chumash Indians in Simi Valley. In: Simi Valley: A Journey Through Time, P. Havens, ed., Simi Valley: Simi Valley Historical Society and Museum, pp. 5–21.
1997
Native Americans on the Central Coast: A Photo Essay (with Black Gold System Advisory Board). Ventura: Black Gold Cooperative Library System.
1996
Secrets of Chumash Social Life. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Bulletin, 188:1.
1995
The Chumash Indians after Secularization. California Mission Studies Association Keepsake, November 1995.
1995
Island Life from Long Ago; What Was the Fate of the Chumash Islanders? Alolkoy: The Publication of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 7(4):3-7.
1994
Ventura's Chumash Community in the Early 1880s. The Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly, 39(2&3): 3–4, 39–66, 74–83.
1993
The Swordfish in Chumash Prehistory. Alolkoy: The Publication of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 6(1):6.
1991
The Chumash People: Materials for Teachers and Students (with R. Perry [first author], J. Timbrook, L. Roche, P. Campbell, P. Hoeft and N. Miller). Sixth Printing, revised 1991. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
1989
History of the Village of Helo' on Mescalitan Island. Goleta Historical Notes, 4(2):2–12.
1989
Pacomio’s Chumash Dancing Songs. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Bulletin, 134:1.
1987
Los Alamos in the Days of the Chumash. La Reata, 7:1–5.
1986
The Chumash History of Mission Creek. Noticias: Quarterly Bulletin of the Santa Barbara Historical Society, 32(2):21–37.
1984
Indian History in the Santa Barbara Back Country. Los Padres Notes, 3:1–24.1983
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Technical Reports 2010
Chumash Islanders at European Contact. In: Channel Islands National Park Archaeological Overview and Assessment, M. A. Glassow, ed., pp. 3.1-3.19. Report submitted to Channel Islands National Park, Ventura.
2010
Contributor to: Chapter 6, Prehistoric Resources on Santa Cruz Island; Chapter 7, Prehistoric Resources on Santa Rosa Island; Chapter 10, Submerged Archaeological Resources, and Chapter 11, Archaeological Resource Management Issues (with T. J. Braje, J. G. Costello, J. M. Erlandson, M. A. Glassow, D. P. Morris, J. E. Perry, and T. C. Rick). In: Channel Islands National Park Archaeological Overview and Assessment, edited by M. A. Glassow. Report submitted to Channel Islands National Park, Ventura.
2010
Volume 9: South San Joaquin Analytical Zone (with R. Milliken [principal author], D. Earle, N. Smith, P. Mikkelsen, P. Brandy, and J. King). In: The Contact-Period Native California Community Distribution Model: A Dynamic Digital Atlas and Wiki Encyclopedia. Submitted to California Department of Transportation, District 6, Fresno. Davis: Far Western Anthropological Research Group.
2009
Contributor to: Chumash Origin Stories, by K. Ranch and J. Timbrook: Report prepared for Channel Islands National Park. Department of Anthropology, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
2006
Ethnohistoric Overview for the Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park Cultural Resources Inventory Project. Report prepared for the Southern Service Center, State of California Department of Parks and Recreation. Department of Anthropology, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
2006
Genealogical Relationships within the Tejon Band in 1915. Report submitted to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C. on behalf of the Tejon Indian Tribe. www.bia.gov/cs/groups/xasia/documents/text/idc-020904.pdf.
2005
An Ethnogeography of Salinan and Northern Chumash Communities – 1769 to 1810 (with R. Milliken [first author]). Report prepared for Environmental Branch, California Department of Parks and Recreation, District 5, San Luis Obispo. Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Davis.
2004
The Ancestry of Paulina Hunter. Report Prepared for the Pechanga Enrollment Committee, Temecula Band of Luiseño Mission Indians, Temecula.
2001
Descendants of Native Communities in the Vicinity of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton: An Ethnohistoric Study of Luiseño and Juaneño Cultural Affiliation (with S. O’Neil), 2 vols. Report prepared for Environmental Security, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, US Marine Corps. Science Applications International Corporation, Santa Barbara.
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1999
Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains (with S. McLendon [principal investigator]), 2 vols. Report prepared for the Archeology and Ethnography Program, National Park Service, Washington, DC. Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York and Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara.
1998
The Ethnohistorical Basis for Cultural Affiliation in the Camp Pendleton Marine Base Area: Contributions to Luiseño and Juaneño Ethnohistory Based on Mission Register Research. Report prepared for Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Science Applications International Corporation, Santa Barbara.
1993
Observations on Fish Bones from Five Santa Cruz Island Archaeological Sites. Report prepared for “Analysis of Emergent Complexity in the Prehistoric Channel Islands,” J. E. Arnold, principal investigator, NSF Grant BNS 88-12184.
1990
Fish Bone. In: Archaeological Investigations of the Northern Front: Rear Area of the Comandancia, V. G. Bente, S. S. Morgan, M. Imwalle, and R. Sheets, Appendix 2A: 1-7. El Presidio de Santa Barbara Archaeological Research Series, Vol. 2. Oakland: Woodward-Clyde Consultants.
1989
Chumash Descendants from Villages in the SCE Project Vicinity. Report prepared for Science Applications International Corporation, Santa Barbara.
1988
Chumash Families in the Weldon Canyon Vicinity. Report prepared for Greenwood and Associates, Pacific Palisades.
1988
The People of Quinquina: San Clemente Island’s Original Inhabitants as Described in Ethnohistoric Documents. Report prepared for the Natural Resources Office, Naval Air Station, North Island, San Diego.
1987
Ethnohistory and Archaeological History of the Gibraltar Reservoir Vicinity, Santa Barbara County. Report prepared for Environmental Impact Planning, San Francisco.
1986
Sh’ahuchu Genealogies: A Study of Indian Descendants from a Historic Chumash Village. Report prepared for Cultural Resources Component, Exxon/Lompoc Pipeline Project EIR. Santa Barbara: Arthur D. Little, Inc.
1985
An Archaeological Survey in the Vicinity of Painted Rock, Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California. Santa Barbara: Office of Public Archaeology, UCSB Department of Anthropology.
1985
Chumash Descendants from Shalawa, the Original Montecito. Report prepared for Mutual Savings and Loan Association, Los Angeles.
1984
Background Research; Ethnographic Research. In: Archaeological Investigations Investigation of the Proposed Chevron/Texaco Onshore Developments: Point Conception to Gaviota Areas, Santa Barbara County, California, by J. Erlandson,
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P. H. Snethkamp, J. R. Johnson, T. K. Rockwell, and F. L. Duncan, 33-59. Santa Barbara: UCSB Social Process Research Institute, Office of Public Archaeology. 1983
Faunal Analysis: Identification of Otoliths from SBA-1731. In: Final Report of Archaeological Investigations at CA-SBA-1731, J. D. Moore and R. Luce, eds., 107-111. Santa Barbara: UCSB Social Process Research Institute, Office of Public Archaeology.
1982
Analysis of Fish Remains from the Late Period Chumash Village of Talepop (LAn-229). In: Archaeological Investigations at Talepop (LAn-229), C. King, ed., Chap. 12: 1-29. Santa Barbara: UCSB Social Process Research Institute, Office of Public Archaeology.
1982
Ethnohistoric Overview of Native American Culture in the Goleta Valley, 15421835 (with C. N. Warren and Susan E. Warren). In: Final Report, Intensive Cultural Resources Survey for the Goleta Flood Protection Program, Santa Barbara County, L. Wilcoxon, ed., Report submitted to Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District.
1980
Analysis of Fish Remains. In: Cultural Resources Technical Report: Proposed Embarcadero Residential Development, J. Serena, ed., 215-223. Santa Barbara: UCSB Social Process Research Institute, Office of Public Archaeology.
1980
Archaeological Analysis of Fish Remains from SBa-1, Rincon Point. In: Cultural Resources Technical Report: Rincon Tract No. 12,932, M. Kornfeld, ed., Chap. 11: 1-18. Santa Barbara: UCSB Social Process Research Institute, Office of Public Archaeology.
1977
Description of Artifacts Collected Near Gibraltar Dam. Report prepared for Los Padres National Forest, Goleta.
Book Reviews 2013
Review: Persistence and Pestilence: Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial California, by Kathleen L. Hull. California Archaeology 5(1):123-125.
2011
Chumash Redux (Gamble’s The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting among Complex Hunter-Gatherers). Current Anthropology 52 (3):479-481.
2010
Review: California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity, edited by T. L. Jones and K. A. Klar. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 30(2):93-98.
2006
Review: “Bringing Them under Subjection,” California’s Tejón Indian Reservation and Beyond, 1852-1864 by George Harwood Phillips. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 26(1):115-116.
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Review: Finding Sand Creek: History, Archeology, and the 1864 Massacre Site by Jerome A. Greene and Douglas D. Scott. The Public Historian 27(3):71-73.
2005
Symposium Comments: Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers. Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association 22(1):71-74.2001 Review of Basket Weavers for the California Curio Trade: Elizabeth and Louise Hickox by Marvin Cohodas. Southern California Quarterly 83(1):110–111.
1996
Review: Chumash Healing: Changing Health and Medical Practices in an American Indian Society by Phillip L. Walker and Travis Hudson. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 18(1):169–170.
1992
Review: The Evolution of Chumash Society: A Comparative Study of Artifacts Used for Social System Maintenance in the Santa Barbara Channel Region Before A.D. 1804 by Chester D. King. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 16(3):207–209.
1991
Review: Archaeological Study of CA-VEN-110, Ventura California, by Roberta S. Greenwood, John M. Foster, and Gwendolyn R. Romani, and Archaeological Study of CA-VEN-110, Ventura, California: Fish Remains by Mark A. Roeder. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 13(1):137–140.
1990
Review: Special Issue: The California Indians, edited by Robert A. Black and Terry P. Wilson. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 12(2): 282– 284.
1985
Review: Mission of the Passes: A Documentary History of Santa Inés and Mission of the Highway: A Documentary History of San Miguel Arcangel, compiled and edited by Francis J. Weber (with V. Biasiol). Catholic Historical Review, 71(1):100–102.
Filmography 2013
Interviewee. The Santa Ynez River Wilderness: A Natural History, directed and produced by Michael Love. World Premiere, Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
2012
Interviewee. Santa Barbara and the Sea: 13,000 Years of Maritime History, produced by Chris Bell for City-TV Channel 18, Santa Barbara.
2011
Interviewee. Migrating to North America, directed and produced by Frédéric Zalac for CBC (Canadian Broacasting Corporation).
2010
Interviewee. Who Really Discovered America? produced and directed by Andy Awes for the Discovery Channel.
2009
Executive Producer and Co-Writer (with Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto), 6 Generations: A Chumash Family’s History, produced and directed by Paul
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Goldsmith. Copyright Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History [DVD distributed by Documentary Educational Resources, www.der.org]. 2009
Interviewee. The Incredible Human Journey, Episode 5: Americas, directed by Peter Oxley, produced by BBC Vision Productions for BBC 2, UK.
2009
Interviewee. Sharing the Santa Barbara Channel, produced and directed by Janet Bridgers, Earth Alert, Inc. with funding from the California Stories Initiative, California Council for the Humanities.
2008
Interviewee. Journey to 10,000 B.C., produced and directed by David Padrusch, Limulus Productions for the History Channel.
2008
Interviewee. Peril & Perseverance: A History of Disasters in Santa Barbara, produced by Christy Zwicke for City-TV Channel 18, Santa Barbara.
2007
Interviewee. In Plain Sight: Public Art in Santa Barbara, produced by Christy Zwicke. Santa Barbara County Arts Commission.
2006
Interviewee. Charmstone, produced by Paul Goldsmith Films, Calabasas, CA.
2005
Interviewee. Tapadero, directed by Susan Jensen and Paul Singer, produced by J & S Productions, Carpinteria, CA.
2004
Interviewee. Coming Into America, Scientific American Frontiers, hosted by Alan Alda, produced by Chedd-Angier Productions for PBS.
2004
Interviewee. Indian Government and Indian Gaming, produced by Gary Robinson for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians.
2004
Interviewee. A Window on the Past at Chumash Painted Cave State Park, produced by McGinnis Video Productions for California State Parks, Sacramento.
2002
Interviewee. Island of the Pygmy Mammoths, produced and directed by Douglas Painter, DF Paynter Productions, for the Discovery Channel.
2001
Interviewee. Impressions in Time: A Story of Santa Barbara, produced by Tony Ruggieri and Jon Zuber for City-TV Channel 18, Santa Barbara [received Emmy Award].
1995
Interviewee. Chumash Indians, produced by Andre Willieme for “One on One,” KCTV-Community Television, Channel 17, Santa Barbara.
1988
Interviewee. Chumash: The Glowing Ember, produced and directed by Richard Lancaster for KCET-TV, Los Angeles.
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Grants Received for Collections, Research, Symposia, and Exhibitions (Not Including Private Donors) 2007
Archaeological Investigations at Arlington Springs, Santa Rosa Island. National Geographical Society, Scientific Research Grant No. 8225-07, $9,000.
2004
Mayanik’oy (Those Things Which Return): French Collections of California Material Culture. National Endowment for the Humanities, Exhibit Planning Grant GM-50193-04, $39,666. Final Performance Report, June 30, 2010.
2001
Chronostratigraphic Investigations at Arlington Springs, Santa Rosa Island. Santa Cruz Island Foundation Research Grant, $20,000.
1999
Symposium: Chumash Transitions: From the Mission Era to the New Millennium, Community Heritage Grant, California Council for the Humanities, $2,400.
1995
Publication and Preservation of the John P. Harrington Collection, National Endowment for the Humanities, RG-20257-95, $20,000. Final Performance Report submitted March 31, 1998.
1994
Computerization of Anthropology Collections at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, National Endowment for the Humanities, PS-20811-94, $110, 281. Final Performance Report submitted, July 31, 1997.
1990
Improved Storage for Anthropology Collections, National Endowment for the Humanities, PH-20420-90, $279,980. Final Performance Report submitted, March 31, 1992.
Service on Graduate Committees Completed Dissertations and Theses: 2014
Louise Draucker, Archaeological Investigations at the Oak Flat Site (CA-SBA3931), Santa Barbara County, California. M.A. thesis in Anthropology, California State University, Bakersfield.
2013
Mariam Dahdul, A Regional and Diachronic Study of Hunter-Gatherer Mobility and Mortuary Practices in the Salton Basin, Southeastern California. Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2013
Heather McDaniel, Exploration of the Burton Mound Continued: Faunal Analysis of a Coastal Chumash Town. M.A. thesis in Anthropology, California State University, Northridge.
2012
Kohanya J. Ranch, Changing Perceptions and Policy: Redefining Indigeneity through California Chumash Revitalization. Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Riverside.
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2010
Sylvere Valentin, Prehistoric Population Replacement on California’s Channel Islands. M.A. thesis in Anthropology, California State University. Los Angeles.
2009
Catherine E. Bailey; Scoping the Sources of Chumash Pottery: A Petrographic Analysis of Brown Ware Sherds from Colonial Period Chumash Sites. M.A. thesis in Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
2008
Julienne L. Bernard, An Archaeological Study of Resistance, Persistence, and Culture Change in the San Emigdio Canyon, Kern County, California. Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
2007
Mark L. Neal, A Predictive Probabilistic Model of Village Site Location within the Santa Ynez Valley, California. M. A. thesis in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2006
Matthew Armstrong, Prehistoric Exchange in the Santa Ynez Valley: Archaeology and Ethnohistory. M.A. thesis in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2004
Torben C. Rick, Daily Activities, Community Dynamics, and Historical Ecology on California’s Northern Channel Islands. Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology, University of Oregon.
2002
Stephen O’Neil, The Acjachemen in the Franciscan Mission System: Demographic Collapse and Social Change. M. A. thesis in Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton.
2002
David J. Scott, Prehistoric Upland Adaptations in the Hale McLeod Canyon Area of the Southern Temblor Mountains, Kern and San Luis Obispo Counties, California. M.A thesis, California State University, Bakersfield.
1999
Kaylee S. McRae, Soxtonokmu’ (CA-SBA-167): An Analysis of Artifacts and Economic Patterns from a Late Period Chumash Village in the Santa Ynez Valley. M.A. thesis, University of Texas, San Antonio.
1999
Nelson Siefkin, Archaeology of the Redtfeldt Mound (CA-Kin-66), Tulare Basin, California. M.A. thesis, California State University, Bakersfield.
Dissertation and Thesis Projects in Progress: Monroe, Cara, Ph.D. candidate, UCSB; “Ancient DNA Analysis from Yukisma Mound (CASCL-38) Burials: Correlating Biological Relationships, Mortuary Behavior, and Social Inequality” Sutton, Elizabeth A., Ph.D. candidate, UCSB; “Household and Community Organization at Nimatlala, a Historic Period Chumash Village on Limuw (Santa Cruz Island, California)”
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Professional Memberships American Anthropological Association American Society for Ethnohistory Council for Museum Anthropology Society for American Archaeology Society for Anthropological Sciences Society for California Archaeology (president, 1993-94; executive board member, 1989-91, 1992-95) Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library (executive board member, 1993-present) Biographical Articles 2011
“Dr. John Johnson – Chumash History Detective” by Cheryl Crabtree, Montecito Magazine, Spring/Summer.
2006
“Hushlikaya hulxhap – Archeology with John Johnson,” in Canyon Voices: The Nature of Rattlesnake Canyon by Karen Telleen-Lawton. Santa Barbara: Mission Creek Studios.
1991
pp. 111-112 in “75th Anniversary: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History” by Richard Oglesby. Noticias: Quarterly Bulletin of the Santa Barbara Historical Society, 37(4):61-120.
Awards 2013
Special Award for “Increasing the Awareness of the Ethnographic Record,” for 6 Generations documentary film, and Honorable Mention in six other categories, including first runner-up for Best Film, The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival, Eugene, Oregon, May 13. (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/events-guide/international-film-and-videofestival/171-tac-fest-2013-pages/1273-film-awards-2013)
2002
Mark R. Harrington Award for Conservation Archaeology, Society for California Archaeology
2000
Norman Neuerburg Award, California Mission Studies Association (inaugural recipient)
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