Author: Diane P. GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Analysis of the Archaeological Assemblage from CA-SCR-35, Santa Cruz County, California
Author: Diane P. GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis
Author: Michael GlassowPublisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1938770536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
How does the practice of archaeology benefit from faunal analysis? Michael Glassow and Terry Joslin's Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis: Insights from California Archaeology addresses this question. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how faunal remains can be used to elucidate subsistence, settlement, technological systems, economic exchange, social organization, adaptation to variability in resource distribution and abundance, and the impacts of historic land use. The sheer prevalence of faunal remains in California archaeological sites means that most archaeologists working in the state inevitably must give these resources their close attention-and yet methodological challenges remain. The chapters in this thoughtfully edited volume tackle these challenges, providing strategies for identifying and mitigating sample bias and recommending quantitative techniques borrowed from a variety of disciplines. The volume also presents examples that illustrate the use of faunal data to test hypotheses derived from microeconomic theory, the applicability of bone and shell chemistry to faunal analysis, and the relevance of faunal data to addressing issues in biology.
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.
We Are Not Animals
Author: Martin Rizzo-MartinezPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496230337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and psychologists, We Are Not Animals sets out to answer questions regarding who the Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz region were and how they survived through the nineteenth century. Between 1770 and 1900 the linguistically and culturally diverse Ohlone and Yokuts tribes adapted to and expressed themselves politically and culturally through three distinct colonial encounters with Spain, Mexico, and the United States. In We Are Not Animals Martin Rizzo-Martinez traces tribal, familial, and kinship networks through the missions’ chancery registry records to reveal stories of individuals and families and shows how ethnic and tribal differences and politics shaped strategies of survival within the diverse population that came to live at Mission Santa Cruz. We Are Not Animals illuminates the stories of Indigenous individuals and families to reveal how Indigenous politics informed each of their choices within a context of immense loss and violent disruption.
Papers on Central California Prehistory, 1
Author: Papers on California Prehistory
Author: Archaeological Investigations at Elkhorn Slough
Author: Stephen A. DietzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Catalysts to Complexity
Author: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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.
The Native Alaskan Neighborhood
Author: Kent G. LightfootPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Fort Ross, California: The native Alaskan neighborhood: a multiethnic community at Colony Ross
Author: Kent G. LightfootPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description