databases

Alta California Mission Research Project: Artifact Database
This portion of the Artifact Database will permit you to view the image database and descriptions associated with the collections recovered by Professor Mendoza and his crews at Old Mission San Juan Bautista. You may also “Search” the database for specific types of materials that interest you. Non-registered students and site visitors will be offered “Preview Only” access. Project participants and registered students will be permitted “Add Records” access, as well as “Preview” and “Search” privileges.

The following access privileges are currently available:

1. SJB Artifact Database: Preview Only (All visitors are welcome to view a selected portion of the database)

2. SJB Artifact Database: Add Records (Requires password authorization and assigned user name. Available by way of subscription only. In order to subscribe, please complete the registration form located at this link. If your registration is accepted by the Institute Director, you will be permitted more generalized access to the database).

3. SJB Artifact Database: Search Only (Only authorized and subscribed project participants are permitted open access and search privileges to the complete artifact database).

Crescent Rockshelter Archaeological Project: Specimens Database
The Crescent Rockshelter Archaeological Project represents the results of a four-year undertaking by Professor Mendoza to document the Paleo-Indian (ca. 11,500 to 7,000 year B.P) through Historic (ca. 1900) evolution of Native American culture in the Colorado Rockies. The site, known as the Crescent Rockshelter (5JF148), is located on the Colorado Front Range, approximately 35 miles west of Denver, Colorado.
The excavations, which were initiated by Professor Mendoza in the Spring of 1992, resulted in the creation of an 800 record artifact database. In addition, Professor Mendoza deployed the Surfer Mapping Program in order to create a topographic rendering of the ancient rockshelter and its archaeological units. Though this is not a complete image database where the artifacts are concerned, you will have an opportunity to review images pertaining to links accessed through the electronic mapping located in this portion of the site. Again, as with the Old Mission artifact database, the same conditions apply to who can access specific portions of this database.

The following access privileges are currently available:

1. Crescent Artifact Database: Preview Only (All visitors are welcome to view a selected portion of the database)

2. Crescent Artifact Database: Add Records (Requires password authorization and assigned user name. Available by way of subscription only. In order to subscribe, please complete the registration form located at this link. If your registration is accepted by the Institute Director, you will be permitted more generalized access to the database).

3. Crescent Artifact Database: Search Only (Only authorized and subscribed project participants are permitted open access and search privileges to the complete artifact database).