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NOTICE OF INVENTORY COMPLETION EVIDENCE FOR DETERMINATION SHEET Draft prepared by S.Hector, 10/17/07 EVIDENCE FOR CULTURAL DETERMINATION: CA-SDI-4669 FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED GROUP: Present (proveniences are situated within the aboriginal territory of the Ipai-Tipai,, as defined by the Handbook of North American Indians, volume 8) RECOMMENDATION: Culturally identifiable and affiliated. SUMMARY OF CONSULTATION: Consultation was carried out in 2006 and 2007 by written correspondence and meetings between Steve Banegas, Spokesperson, Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee (KCRC), and Milton J. Phegley, Campus Community Planner, University of California, San Diego. A letter requesting repatriation of the remains was sent from KCRC to the university on August 7, 2006. Steve Banegas was recognized as the Most Likely Descendant (MLD) by the Native American Heritage Commission when human bone was discovered at the site during geotechnical test excavations conducted in December 2006 and January 2007. This bone was repatriated to the MLD. SUMMARY OF POTENTIALLY RELEVANT EVIDENCE: The evidence cited below applies to the site recorded with the State of California as CA-SDI-4669, but also known as SDM-W-12A as recorded by the San Diego Museum of Man. Geographical: The site is located in Kumeyaay aboriginal territory (Luomala 1978). Kinship: Steve Banegas of the Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee (KCRC) has been identified as the Most Likely Descendant for the site by the Native American Heritage Commission. No lineal descendants have been identified for these remains. Biological: The Smithsonian Institution is conducting research on ancient human populations in North America, including two burials from SDI-4669. According to Jantz and Owsley (2005), skeletal remains from La Jollan populations of the antiquity of SDI-4669 do not resemble modern Native American populations. No specific biological analyses of the remains from SDI-4669 are known