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HELIX Environmental Planning, Inc.
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January 11,2016
Mr. Rick McKee
BSD Builders, Inc.
8825 Rehco Road, Suite A
San Diego, CA 92121
HELIX
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Subject: Cultural Resources Survey for the Paseo Del Norte Project
Dear Mr. McKee:
HELIX Environmental Planning, Inc. (HELIX) was contracted to conduct a cultural resources
study of the Paseo Del Norte project (Project) in the City of Carlsbad. No cultural resources
were observed within the parcel during the survey, but ground visibility was nonexistent
throughout a majority of the parcel's canyon basin. This letter report details the methods and
results of the cultural resources study and recommendations based on these results.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Paseo Del Norte project is located in the City of Carlsbad in northwestern San Diego
County, California (Figure 1). The parcel is located east of Interstate 5 (1-5), south of Palomar
Airport Road, and west of Paseo del Norte (Figures 2 through 4). The Project site is in an
unsectioned portion of Township 12 South, Range 4 West on the U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) 7.5-minute Encinitas quadrangle (Figure 3).
The Project proposes to build a medical center at the site of an existing building and expand a
parking lot, as shown in Figure 4. The majority of the currently undeveloped portion of the
Project site will maintain its current open space status, with the exception of the northern
boundary and the northwest corner, in which the parking lot extension is proposed.
ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING
Geologically speaking, the parcel is underlain by Quaternary alluvium (Kennedy, et al. 2007).
Salinas clay, 0-2 percent slopes, is the only soil type mapped within the Project area (Bowman
1973). Elevations within the parcel range from roughly 54 feet above mean sea level (AMSL)
along the northern border to 40 feet AMSL along the southern border and around 26 feet AMSL
in the canyon's basin.
Letter report to Mr. Rick McKee
January 11, 2016
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early San Dieguito sites. The San Dieguito complex is chronologically equivalent to other
Paleoindian complexes across North America, and sites are sometimes called "Paleoindian"
rather than "San Dieguito". San Dieguito material underlies La Jolla complex strata at the C. W.
Harris site in San Dieguito Valley (Warren, ed. 1966).
The traditional view of San Diego prehistory has the San Dieguito complex followed by the La
Jolla complex at least 7,000 years ago, possibly as long as 9,000 years ago (Rogers 1966). The
La Jolla complex is part of the Encinitas tradition and equates with Wallace's (1955)
Millingstone Horizon, also known as Early Archaic or Milling Archaic. The Encinitas tradition
is generally "recognized by millingstone assemblages in shell middens, often near sloughs and
lagoons" (Moratto 1984: 14 7). "Crude" cobble tools, especially choppers and scrapers,
characterize the La Jolla complex (Moriarty 1966). Basin metates, manos, discoidals, a small
number of Pinto series and Elko series points, and flexed burials are also characteristic.
Warren et al. (1961) proposed that the La Jolla complex developed with the arrival of a desert
people on the coast who quickly adapted to their new environment. Moriarty ( 1966) and
Kaldenberg (1976) have suggested an in situ development of the La Jolla people from the San
Dieguito. Moriarty has since proposed a Pleistocene migration of an ancestral stage of the La
Jolla people to the San Diego coast. He suggested this Pre-La Jolla complex is represented at
Texas Street, Buchanan Canyon, and the Brown site (Moriarty 1987).
Since the 1980s, archaeologists in the region have begun to question the traditional definition of
San Dieguito people simply as makers of finely crafted felsite projectile points, domed scrapers,
and discoidal cores, who lacked milling technology. The traditional defining criteria for La Jolla
sites (manos, metates, "crude" cobble tools, and reliance on lagoonal resources) have also been
questioned (Bull 1987; Cardenas and Robbins-Wade 1985; Robbins-Wade 1986). There is
speculation that differences between artifact assemblages of "San Dieguito" and "La Jolla" sites
reflect functional differences rather than temporal or cultural variability (Bull 1987; Gallegos
1987). Gallegos (1987) has proposed that the San Dieguito, La Jolla, and Pauma complexes are
manifestations of the same culture, with differing site types "explained by site location, resources
exploited, influence, innovation and adaptation to a rich coastal region over a long period of
time" (Gallegos 1987:30). The classic "La Jolla" assemblage is one adapted to life on the coast
and appears to continue through time (Robbins-Wade 1986; Winterrowd and Cardenas 1987).
Inland sites adapted to hunting contain a different tool kit, regardless of temporal period
(Cardenas and Van Wormer 1984).
Several archaeologists in San Diego, however, do not subscribe to the Early Prehistoric/Late
Prehistoric chronology ( see Cook 1985; Gross and Hildebrand 1998; Gross and Robbins-Wade
1989; Shackley 1988; Warren 1998). They feel that an apparent overlap among assemblages
identified as "La Jolla," "Pauma," or "San Dieguito" does not preclude the existence of an Early
Milling period culture in the San Diego region, separate from an earlier culture. One perceived
problem is that many site reports in the San Diego region present conclusions based on
interpretations of stratigraphic profiles from sites at which stratigraphy cannot validly be used to
address chronology or changes through time. Archaeology emphasizes stratigraphy as a tool, but
many of the sites known in the San Diego region are not in depositional situations. In contexts
where natural sources of sediment or anthropogenic sources of debris to bury arc~h:=a:._eo=.:l~o~g:.:ic.:.:a:...l ____ _
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Table 1
PREVIOUSLY RECORDED RESOURCES WITHIN 1-MILE RADIUS
Primary Trinomial Site Recorder and Date
Recorded (Report Number Designation Site Description Dimensions Reference if (P-37-) (CA-SDI-) (Meters) Available)
000760 760 Shell and lithic 16 by 23 Crabtree and King
scatter 1961
006067 6067 Shell scatter 105 by 45 Roeder 1982;
Franklin 1978
006134/010672 6134/10672 Two overlapping 6134: 495 by 6134: Thesken
sites: 10672 190 1978; Gross and
extends into I-mile Robbins-Wade
search radius. 10672: 150 by 1987; Guererro and
Habitation site 115 Gallegos 2004;
(shell, lithics, Morgan and
ground stone). Tennesen 2010.
10672: Baker,
Boughton,
McIntosh, and
Winzler 1992;
Gross and Robbins-
Wade 1987; Gross,
Robbins-Wade, and
Serr 1987;
Morgan and
Tennesen 2010.
006749 6749 No record on file No record on No record on file
file
006752 6752 Shell midden 20 by 30 Desautels 1982;
Franklin 1978
006829 6829 Shell midden 20 by 50 Hector 1985;
Franklin 1978
008797 8797 Habitation site; 425 by 90 Gardner 1981;
burials ( at least Robbins-Wade,
two) present; has Gross, and Serr
been tested many 1987; Huey, Baker,
times Boughton,
McIntosh, and
Winzler 1992
(Gallegos &
Strudwick 1992);
Harris, Tift, and
Gallegos 1995
(Gallegos & Harris
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Table 1 (cont.)
PREVIOUSLY RECORDED RESOURCES WITHIN 1-MILE RADIUS
Primary Trinomial Site Recorder and Date
Recorded (Report Number Designation Site Description Dimensions Reference if (P-37-) (CA-SDI-) (Meters) Available)
1995); Tift 1997
(Kyle and Gallegos
1997); (Stropes and
Gallegos 2005);
Greene (BFSA
2006)
009607 9607 Shell scatter with 25 by 125 Desautels 1982
lithic component
(tools)
010670 10670 Sparse shell and 290 by 135 Gross, Robbins-
lithic scatter; some Wade, and Serr
bone 1987
011022 11022 Shell scatter 30 by 30 Kyle 1988
(surface)
012814 12814 Shell and lithic 365 by 182 Huey, Baker,
scatter Boughton,
McIntosh, and
Winzler 1992
(Gallegos &
Strudwick 1992)
013008 13008 Shell and lithic 244 by 366 Huey, Baker,
scatter; originally Boughton,
recorded as two McIntosh, and
different sites Winzler 1992
(6132 and 10673) (Gallegos &
Strudwick 1992)
014232 14064 Shell scatter (light 90 by 50 Gallegos &
density) and one Associates 1995
lithic flake; midden (Gallegos and
soil noted Harris 1995)
015183 Isolate n/a Huey, Baker,
(hammerstone) Boughton,
McIntosh, and
Winzler 1992
(Gallegos and
Strudwick 1992)
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Table 1 (cont.)
PREVIOUSLY RECORDED RESOURCES WITHIN 1-MILE RADIUS
Primary Trinomial Site Recorder and Date
Recorded (Report Number Designation Site Description Dimensions Reference if (P-37-) (CA-SDI-) (Meters) Available)
015184 Isolate (core) n/a Huey, Baker,
Boughton,
McIntosh, and
Winzler 1992
(Gallegos and
Strudwick 1992)
015185 Isolate (metate n/a Huey, Baker,
fragment) Boughton,
McIntosh, and
Winzler 1992
(Gallegos and
Strudwick
1992)
018804 15678 Shell scatter; 126 m by 15 ASM Affiliates,
disturbed by m lnc.2003
construction but in (Laylander and
original context Becker 2003);
O'Neill 2000
018809 Isolate (marine n/a O'Neill 2000
shell fragments)
026512 17408 San Dieguito II and ½ acre No name or date
III habitation site
026517 17413 Shell, lithics, 350 by 200 May and May 1972
ground stone
scatter
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