Author: Gary S. BreschiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Analyses of South-central Californian Shell Artifacts
Author: Gary S. BreschiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast
Author: Jon ErlandsonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306444210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
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.
Baseline Archaeological Studies at Rancho San Carlos, Carmel Valley, Monterey County, California
Author: Gary S. BreschiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
San Clemente Dam Seismic Safety Project
Author: An Offramp on the Kelp Highway
Author: Gary S. BreschiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Archaeological Excavations at CA-MNT-108
Author: Gary S. BreschiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Chumash and Their Predecessors
Author: Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Author: Occasional Papers
Author: San Luis Obispo County Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Catalysts 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.