Burials now have more artifacts, including objects made of bone, and ornaments. Evidence of alliances and warfare. Staples are fish and acorns. In Santa Barbara, the local province capital was Syuhtun, with 800 inhabitants. There was, however, an increasing division of labor, for instance for making huge soapstone jars and bowls, and finely wrought and patterned ornaments.
Burials are increasingly elaborate, recent finds include a large swordfish headdress.
A continental drought provokes wide-ranging migrations. The Gabrielinos, who speak Shoson, a Uto-Aztec language, come down from the Mojave and settle in the Los Angeles basin, displacing the Hokan speakers, relatives of the Chumash. Experts in irrigation, the Gabrielinos construct a network of canals that permit a relatively large human population.