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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Papers on California Prehistory
Author: Papers on California Prehistory
Author: Gary S. BreschiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
California Prehistory
Author: Terry L. JonesPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759113742
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
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 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.
California Archaeology
Author: Michael J. MorattoPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483277356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
California Archaeology provides a compilation of knowledge for archeologists who are not California specialists. This book explains important cultural events and patterns discovered archeologically. Organized into 11 chapters, this book begins with an overview of California's historic and ancient environments as well as the evidence of Pleistocene human activity. This text then examines the glacial and other environmental conditions that would have influenced the origins, adaptations, and spread of the earliest North Americans. Other chapters consider how California's past is relevant to a wider understanding of human behavior. This book discusses as well the perceptions of Central Coast and San Francisco Bay region prehistory that have changed rapidly as a result of intensive fieldwork performed to comply with environmental law. The final chapter deals with the data of historical linguistics, which indicate something of the cultural relationships and events that might have occurred in the past. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists.
Perspectives on Prehistoric Trade and Exchange in California and the Great Basin
Author: Richard E. HughesPublisher: University of Utah Press
ISBN: 1607812002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This volume investigates the circumstances and conditions under which trade/exchange, direct access, and/or mobility best account for material conveyance across varying distances at different times in the past.
Papers on Central California Prehistory, 1
Author: Islanders and Mainlanders
Author: Jeffrey H. AltschulPublisher: Statistical Research
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The southern California coast has been a favored place to live for nearly 12,000 years. Dotted with marshes, estuaries, cliffs, and open beaches, with islands and mountains lying nearby, the area is rich in resources. How humans have fit into this ecological diverse and ever-changing landscape is a constant theme in the prehistory of the region. Using comparative studies of island and coastal cultures from the Pacific, the authors show how the study of southern California's past can enlighten us about coastal adaptations worldwide. Drawing on sources from anthropology, ethnohistory, geoscience, and archaeology, their findings are presented in a readable fashion that will make Islanders and Mainlanders of interest not only to a wide range of scholars but to the general public as well. Jeffrey H. Altschul is President and Donn R. Grenda is Director of the California Office of Statistical Research, Inc., a cultural resource management consulting firm. Both have been extremely active in southern California archaeology, working on sites on the mainland and the Channel Islands.
California Maritime Archaeology
Author: RaabPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759113181
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
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.
Central California Coastal Prehistory
Author: Terry L JonesPublisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1950446093
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description