Author: Terry L. JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Archaeological Data Recovery at the Toro Creek Site, CA-MNT-3, Monterey County, California
Author: Terry L. JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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.
California State Publications
Author: California State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Archaeological Data Recovery at Prehistoric Site CA-SOL-355/H, Green Valley, Solano County, California
Author: Randy S. WibergPublisher:
ISBN: 9781555678722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Author: Archaeological Data Recovery at CA-SCR-44, at the Site of the Lakeview Middle School, Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, California
Author: Gary S. BreschiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
An Offramp on the Kelp Highway
Author: Gary S. BreschiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Archaeological Testing and Salvage at CA-MNT-63, CA-MNT-73, and CA-MNT-376, on the Big Sur Coast, Monterey County, California
Author: Terry L. JonesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781555675844
Category : Big Sur (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Archaeological Data Recovery at Sites CA-SOL-69 and CA-SOL-315, Green Valley, Solano County, California
Author: Randy S. WibergPublisher:
ISBN: 9781555678739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Final Report
Author: Randy S. WibergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description