Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 5259 [2024-01536]

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• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 18 (Friday, January 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 5259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-01536]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037279; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Davis, 
Davis, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Davis (UC 
Davis) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects 
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The 
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Solano 
County, CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after February 26, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA Project Manager, University of 
California, Davis, 412 Mrak Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, 
telephone (530) 752-8501, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of UC 
Davis. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the inventory or related records held by UC Davis.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals were 
removed from Solano County, CA. In 1973, CA-SOL-271 was excavated by 
Helen Clough as part of a UC Davis Field School (UC Davis Accession 
66). In 1999, the same site was excavated again by UC Davis 
Anthropology Graduate Student, Eric Wohlgemuth (UC Davis Accession 
537). There are 1,330 lots of associated funerary objects. Of that 
number, 1,316 funerary objects have been located and 14 objects are 
currently missing. UC Davis continues to look for the missing 
associated funerary objects. The 1,316 located funerary objects are 
three lots consisting of worked shell (including beads and pendants); 
28 lots consisting of worked bone (awls, whistles, and other worked 
bone); five lots consisting of stone beads; 115 lots consisting of 
projectile points, bifaces, and other chipped stone; 132 lots 
consisting of groundstone; 333 lots consisting of debitage; 162 lots 
consisting of worked stone; 19 lots consisting of baked clay/ceramics; 
320 lots consisting of unmodified animal bone; 94 lots consisting of 
unmodified shell; 23 lots consisting of charcoal, ash, and ochre; five 
lots consisting of mixed bone, shell and seeds; 18 lots consisting of 
plant material (seeds, nuts, acorn caps); and 59 lots consisting of 
flotations, fire affected rock, soil, and unmodified stone. The 14 
currently missing associated funerary objects are one lot consisting of 
worked shell; one lot consisting of worked bone; four projectile 
points; one lot consisting of debitage; one lot consisting of worked 
stone; three lots consisting of unmodified animal bone; one lot 
consisting of unmodified shell; and one lot consisting of unmodified 
stone; and one lot consisting of unknown material.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice 
are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 
peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity 
between the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures 
and one or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The 
following types of information were used to reasonably trace the 
relationship: anthropological, archeological, geographical, historical, 
linguistics, and oral tradition.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, UC Davis has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 1,330 objects described in this notice are reasonably 
believed to have been placed with or near individual human remains at 
the time of death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects described in this notice and the Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun 
Indians of the Colusa Indian Community of the Colusa Rancheria, 
California; Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation of the Cortina Rancheria 
(Previously listed as Kletsel Dehe Band of Wintun Indians); and the 
Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 
may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after February 26, 2024. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, UC Davis must 
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. UC Davis is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to 
the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
    This notice was submitted before the effective date of the revised 
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12, 
2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the Federal 
Register and includes the required information, the National Park 
Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: January 18, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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