Ahunx ("elevated")[1] was a village site significant to the Payómkawichum and Acjachemen located between the old town of El Toro (now referred to as Lake Forest, California) and Tomato Springs (located in the Portola Springs area).[2]
In geological terms, it was located north of the San Joaquin Hills on the southern edge of the Tustin Plain. Some researchers have placed the village site between Serrano Creek and Agua Chinon Creek in an elevated area,[3] while others place it about one mile west from Los Alisos Creek. Much of the areas of the Tustin Plain were uninhabited, since this region was a giant swamp prior to the 20th century.[1]
Ahunx appears in Payómkawichum legend as a significant site. The site was also significant to the Acjachemen, indicating connections between the two groups.[2]
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edit- ^ a b Koerper, Henry Carl (1988). The Natural and Social Sciences of Orange County. Natural History Foundation of Orange County. p. 112. ISBN 1879065010.
- ^ a b O'Neil, S. T. (2002). The acjachemen in the franciscan mission system: Demographic collapse and social change (Order No. 1409864). ProQuest. pg. 77, 86.
- ^ Koerper, Henry; Mason, Roger; Peterson, Mark (2002). Catalysts to complexity : late Holocene societies of the California coast. Jon Erlandson, Terry L. Jones, Jeanne E. Arnold, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-938770-67-8. OCLC 745176510.