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�. 4.8 CULTURAL RESOURCES <br /> t <br /> r i INTRODUCTION <br /> This section examines <br /> potential impacts on cultural resources associated with the <br /> construction and operation of the proposed Koster Road Quarry. Cultural resources could <br /> include ethnographic, prehistoric and historic archaeological sites and architectural <br /> properties. <br /> i SETTING <br /> .r <br /> Introduction <br /> ! The information in this section is derived from cultural resources investigations conducted <br /> 3 at the Central California Information Center of the California Historic Resources Information <br /> Center (CCIC) and an archaeological survey of proposed project area. The literature <br /> review was conducted on February 25, 1997 by the CCIC (File No. 2825L). All previous <br /> archaeological study reports and record for the single archaeological site (CA-SJO-258H) <br /> recorded within % mile distance of the project area were reviewed along with state and <br /> federal listings of historical and archaeological properties, and historical maps and <br /> background information for the project vicinity. Also reviewed were relevant ethnographic <br /> and historical reference materials for the project vicinity. <br /> Ethnography <br /> The project lies within the ethnographic territory of the Northern Valley Yokuts (Wallace, <br /> i 1978). Principal settlements were located along the San Joaquin River and major <br /> watercourses, with the population focused in the eastern side of the Central Valley. The <br /> western side of the valley (current project vicinity) was less intensively utilized by the <br /> Yokuts in late i prehistory. No ethnographic settlements are.mapped in the vicinity by <br /> Wallace (1978). ry$ <br /> 'I Historic:Period <br /> l The California Centra!Valley was initially explored by the Spanish from 1776 to 1849. The <br /> first organized American exploration of the Central Valley was by Colonel J. Warner of the <br /> Ewing-Young trapping expedition 1832-1833 (Gilbert, 1879:11). The first settlement in the <br /> vicinity of Stockton was French Camp, which was occupied by Canadian hunters who <br /> worked for the Hudson's Bay Company. Fallowing the discovery of gold in California, in <br /> 1848, the central valley became a supplier of food and goods for the miners. Thus sheep, <br /> L cattle and horse ranching dominated the Central Valley until the 1860's when the demand <br /> ' for agricultural goods transformed the valley into the productive agricultural region it is <br /> ' today (Napton, 1994a). <br /> Draft Environmental Impact Report 4-106 ER-96-3 <br /> i <br />