| Title | "What Must It Have Been Like!": Critical Considerations of Precontact Ohlone Cosmology as Interpreted through Central California Ethnohistory |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2003 |
| Authors | Les W. Field, Alan Leventhal |
| Journal | Wicazo Sa Review |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pagination | 95-126 |
| ISSN | 07496427 |
| Abstract | Examines factors that need critical consideration in studying the cosmology of Costanoan Indians before their contact with Spanish colonists. Significance of anthropological discoveries of ritually buried animals; Processes of retention and loss of Ohlone cultural memory in the context of Spanish domination. |
| Short Title | "What Must It Have Been Like!" |