Author: DanielPublisher:
ISBN: 9781555679576
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Archaeological Research of the Southern Santa Clara Valley Project
Author: DanielPublisher:
ISBN: 9781555679576
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Paleoseismic and Archaeologic Investigation of the Northern San Gregorio Fault, Seal Cove, San Mateo County, California
Author: Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast
Author: Jon M. ErlandsonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475750420
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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.
California Prehistory
Author: Terry L. JonesPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759108721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Reader of original synthesizing articles for introductory courses on archaeology and native peoples of California.
Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of California and the Great Basin
Author: Noel D. JusticePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253108838
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Noel Justice adds another regional guide to his series of important reference works that survey, describe, and categorize the projectile point and cutting tools used in prehistory by Native American peoples. This volume addresses the region of California and the Great Basin. Written for archaeologists and amateur collectors alike, the book describes over 50 types of stone arrowhead and spear points according to period, culture, and region. With the knowledge of someone trained to fashion projectile points with techniques used by the Indians, Justice describes how the points were made, used, and re-sharpened. His detailed drawings illustrate the way the Indians shaped their tools, what styles were peculiar to which regions, and how the various types can best be identified. There are hundreds of drawings, organized by type cluster and other identifying characteristics. The book also includes distribution maps and color plates that will further aid the researcher or collector in identifying specific periods, cultures, and projectile types.
Guadalupe Corridor Transportation Project, Santa Clara County
Author: Resource Management Plan for the Southern Diablo Mountain Range and Central Coast of California
Author: Archaic Milling Cultures of the Southern San Francisco Bay Region
Author: Richard Thomas FitzgeraldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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.
Humans at the End of the Ice Age
Author: Lawrence Guy StrausPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461311454
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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.