NOTE: This is an online event (see Zoom registration form below); we will not be meeting at the Resource Center for Nonviolence.

Join SCAS for a presentation by Gabriel Sanchez on: “Middle to Late Holocene Fisheries of the Santa Cruz County Coast.”

DATE: Thursday, September 11, 2025

TIME: 7:30 – 8:30 PM (Pacific)

ZOOM REGISTRATION FORM: Meeting Registration – Zoom *RSVP for Zoom by 6:30 PM on Thursday, September 11, 2025*

Archaeological investigations of the Santa Cruz County coast offer an exceptional opportunity to understand human habitation of the coastline and coast ranges from the Terminal Pleistocene and throughout the Holocene. In this talk, I present the results of a study directed toward a better understanding of ancient and historic fishing practices along the Santa Cruz coast. Through the analysis of several sites that span from the Middle Holocene to the Contact Period, this study investigates long-term human-fish relationships. 

Gabriel Sanchez is an Indigenous Anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Oregon. He completed his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has completed research projects throughout the central California coast including Santa Cruz County. Gabriel participates in collaborative and community-based participatory research projects with several Native Californian Tribes. He also serves as the Curator of Zooarchaeology for the Museum of Natural and Cultural History.