Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast
Author: Jon Erlandson
Publisher:
Published: 2014-01-15
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781475750430
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Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast
Author: Jon M. Erlandson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1475750420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on detailed excavation data, the author reconstructs the paleography of the Santa Barbara coast ca. 8500 years ago, makes comparisons to other early California sites, and applies his findings to current theories of hunter-gatherers and coastal environments. With an emphasis on paleographic reconstructions, site formation processes, chronological studies, and integrated faunal analyses, the work will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in shell middens, hunter-gatherer ecology, geoarchaeology, and coatal or aquatic adaptations.
Hunter-Gatherers of Early Holocene Coastal California
Author: Roger H. Colten
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 1991-12-31
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1938770722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume is the first to bring together a number of studies on the Early Holocene of the California coast (ca. 10,000 to 6600 BP). Erlandson and Colten haveassembled contributions that may be of interest to a broad spectrum of scholars whose research pertains to any of the following: early sites in the Americas, coastal adaptations, hunter-gatherer adaptations, general Pacific coast prehistory, and the specific history of research on pre-6600 BP occupations of coastal California.
First Coastal Californians
Author: Lynn H. Gamble
Publisher:
Published: 2015-12
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781938645181
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →California Prehistory
Author: Terry L. Jones
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2007-07-16
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 0759113742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory undertaken in the past 20 years. An essential resource for any scholar of California prehistory and archaeology!
California Maritime Archaeology
Author: Raab
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2009-08-16
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0759113181
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →San Clemente Island is a microcosm of California coastal archaeology from prehistoric through historic times—not only because of the extensiveness of its archaeological remains but because those remains have been so well preserved. In California Maritime Archaeology, the authors use the island as a platform to explore evidence of early seafaring, colonization, paleoenvironmental change, and cultural interaction along the California coast. They make a strong case that San Clemente island should be seen as a kind of "California archaeological Galapagos," offering an extraordinary variety of ancient life as well as surprising information about prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the northern Pacific. The authors' two decades of research have resulted in this rich cultural history that defies widespread assumptions about California's ancient maritime history.
The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers
Author: Ben Fitzhugh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2003-07-31
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780306477539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book makes a contribution to the developing field of complex hunter-gatherer studies with an archaeological analysis of the development of one such group. It examines the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers on the North Pacific coast of Alaska. It is one of the first books available to examine in depth the social evolution of a specific complex hunter-gatherer tradition on the North Pacific Rim and will be of interest to professional archaeologists, anthropologists, and students of archaeology and anthropology.
Central California Coastal Prehistory
Author: Terry L Jones
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 1995-12-31
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1950446093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Catalysts to Complexity
Author: Jon Erlandson
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 2003-07-01
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1938770676
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the Spanish colonized it in AD 1769, the California Coast was inhabited by speakers of no fewer than 16 distinct languages and an untold number of small, autonomous Native communities. These societies all survived by foraging, and ethnohistoric records show a wide range of adaptations emphasizing a host of different marine and terrestrial foods. Many groups exhibited signs of cultural complexity including sedentism, high population density, permanent social inequality, and sophisticated maritime technologies. The ethnographic era was preceded by an archaeological past that extends back to the terminal Pleistocene. Essays in this volume explore the last three and one half millennia of this long history, focusing on the archaeological signatures of emergent cultural complexity. Organized geographically, they provide an intricate mosaic of archaeological, historic, and ethnographic findings that illuminate cultural changes over time. To explain these Late Holocene cultural developments, the authors address issues ranging from culture history, paleoenvironments, settlement, subsistence, exchange, ritual, power, and division of labor, and employ both ecological and post-modern perspectives. Complex cultural expressions, most highly developed in the Santa Barbara Channel and the North Coast, are viewed alternatively as fairly recent and abrupt responses to environmental flux or the end-product of gradual progressions that began earlier in the Holocene.
Humans at the End of the Ice Age
Author: Lawrence Guy Straus
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1461311454
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Humans at the End of the Ice Age chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary. Contributions address the nature and consequences of the global climate changes accompanying the end of the Pleistocene epoch-detailing the nature, speed, and magnitude of the human adaptations that culminated in the development of food production in many parts of the world. The text is aided by vital maps, chronological tables, and charts.
