ABSTRACT The Farallon Islands are a cluster of small islands ∼32 km off the coast of San Francisco Bay. These islands total < 1 km2 in area and lack surface freshwater, but are home to scores of breeding seabirds and seals and sea lions. At least three archaeological projects have been conducted on Southeast Farallon, focusing on the islands’ two known archaeological sites (CA-SFR-1 and CA-SFR-24), both primarily related to an early nineteenth century Russian fur trade hunting camp with no evidence of prehistoric human occupation. Little has been published on these expeditions despite their implications for understanding colonialism and culture contact, historical ecology, and the history of San Francisco. We synthesize the history of archaeological research on the Farallon Islands. We discuss the artifacts and faunal remains recovered from these projects, the state of the collections, and how these data articulate with broader California archaeology and the archaeology of small islands.

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加利福尼亚法拉隆群岛考古研究七十年

摘要法拉隆群岛是一群小岛屿，距离旧金山湾海岸约 32 公里。这些岛屿的总面积小于 1 平方公里，缺乏地表淡水，但却是大量繁殖海鸟、海豹和海狮的家园。在法拉隆东南部至少进行了三个考古项目，重点是岛上的两个已知考古遗址（CA-SFR-1 和 CA-SFR-24），这两个遗址主要与 19 世纪早期的俄罗斯毛皮贸易狩猎营有关，没有史前人类占领的证据。尽管这些探险对理解殖民主义和文化接触、历史生态和旧金山历史具有重要意义，但关于这些探险的报道很少。我们综合了法拉隆群岛考古研究的历史。