Mission records indicate that 11 people from the village were baptized, likely atMission San Gabriel, from between 1781 and 1803, including 3 men, 7 women, and 1 child.[1] In 1978, it was indicated that the village site was probably buried underalluvium and that the village site had been occupied for thousands of years.[6]
The village's name derived from the word "tota," which was recorded as meaning "rock" in theTongva language.[3]
^abMcLendon, Sally (1999).Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains: Final Report, Volume 2. National Park Service. p. 3.
^abCatalysts 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. 2002. pp. 64–65.ISBN978-1-938770-67-8.OCLC745176510.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
