Author: Joan C. BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A Taxonomic Analysis of Avian Faunal Remains from Three Archaeological Sites in Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles County, California
Author: Joan C. BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A Taxonomic Analysis and Anthropological Interpretation of Avian Faunal Remains from Three Archaeological Sites in Marina Del Rey, California
Author: Joan Celeste BrownCatalysts to Complexity
Author: Jon ErlandsonPublisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1938770676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
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.
Archaeological Investigations of Some Significant Sites on the Central Coast of California
Author: Herb DallasJournal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Author: The Pueblo Bonito Mounds of Chaco Canyon
Author: Patricia L. CrownPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826356508
Category : Animal remains (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Archaeologists use the artifacts and fauna they found to examine the lives and activities of the inhabitants of Pueblo Bonito as well as to further interpret current models of Chaco archaeology.
Bibliographic Guide to Anthropology and Archaeology
Author: Late Holocene Trends in Prehistoric Waterfowl Exploitation
Author: Shannon Marie GoshenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Recent studies of faunal assemblages from archaeological sites in the Sacramento Valley, California have illustrated substantial anthropogenic impacts to local game populations and distributions during the late Holocene. Resource intensification analyses document a decrease in foraging efficiency and suggest populations of profitable mammals and fish were increasingly depressed through the late Holocene. Yet, limited research on the impacts of harvest pressures on prehistoric bird resources exists for the region. Modeling a similar study of avifauna exploitation in the San Francisco Bay, I test the hypothesis that profitable avian taxa were depressed by prehistoric hunters in the lower Sacramento Valley through a comprehensive analysis of avifauna remains from two sites in the lower Sacramento Valley (CA-SAC-15/H and CA-SAC-29). Results are suggestive of resource depression and show avifauna assemblages dominated by waterfowl in which the most profitable taxa (geese) decline in relative abundance over the time of occupation at both sites. A comprehensive analysis of taxonomic composition and taphonomy, and a review of regional archaeofaunal records, waterfowl life histories, and micro-regional paleoclimate contexts, provide clarification on observed trends in relative abundance and supporting evidence for avian resource depression.
A Vertebrate Faunal Analysis Coding System, with North American Taxonomy and DBase Support Programs and Procedures (Version 3.3)
Author: Brian S. ShafferPublisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The authors present the constructs for a logical and hierarchal vertebrate coding system for use in the analysis of faunal remains from archaeological sites. FACS consists of a series of numeric codes for recording information on 24 attributes for each faunal specimen.
An Analysis of Faunal Remains from Ca-Scr-42
Author: Eric BlinmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal remains (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description