Author: Albert B. ElsasserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Part 1: Review of the Prehistory of the Santa Clara Valley Region, California
Author: Albert B. ElsasserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Santa Clara Valley Prehistory
Author: Mark G. HylkemaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
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.
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.
Essays on the Prehistory of Maritime California
Author: Terry L. JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Changes through time in the archaeological record of coastal California illuminate complex relationships between human beings and a rich, diverse coastal biome. With a long and impressive history of coastal archaeology, California scholars have a substantial empirical research base from which to address broader issues within the increasingly specialized subfield of maritime anthropology. The 16 papers in this volume attempt to explain changes in coastal hunter-gatherer behavior through time.Contributing Authors: JE Arnold, LE Christenson, JM Erlandson, D Gallegos, MA Glassow, GT Gross, DA Jones,TL Jones, D Laylander, KG Lightfoot, P Martz, LA Payen, LM Raab, EW Ritter, RA Salls, R Schwaderer, DD Simons, A Yatsko, DR Yesner
Further Notes on California Charmstones
Author: Albert B. ElsasserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
SR 4 Gap Closure Project, Improvements Between I-80 and Cummings Skyway, Contra Costa County
Author: BART-Oakland International Airport Connector
Author: Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Author: Papers on California Prehistory
Author: Gary S. BreschiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description