Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District.

Biography / Administrative History

Collected and/or recorded between 1988-2000 by Cultural Systems Research, Inc (CSRI) on behalf of Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. CSRI project participants included Lowell John Bean (Principal Investigator), Jerry Schaefer (Project Archaeologist), and Sylvia Brakke Vane (Project Ethnohistorian). Archaeological testing, data recovery, and construction monitoring components were undertaken between April 1988 and August 1990; analysis of archaeological data from 1988 to 1994; ethonographic and ethnohistoric research from 1988 through 1994. Analyses of the collections' archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric contexts were compiled in the report Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Ethnohistoric Investigations at Tahquitz Canyon - Palm Springs, California (also known as the "Tahquitz Report") in November, 1995.