Author: Alex DeGeorgeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angel Island (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Contributions to San Francisco Bay Prehistory
Author: Alex DeGeorgeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angel Island (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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!
Toward a New Taxonomic Framework for Central California Archaeology
Author: James Allan BennyhoffPublisher:
ISBN: 9781882744039
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
California, Oregon, and Washington Archaeological Resource Study
Author: California, Oregon, and Washington Archaeological Resource Study: Prehistory
Author: Resource Depression and Intensification During the Late Holocene, San Francisco Bay
Author: Jack M. BroughtonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520915916
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Emeryville Shellmound, on the east shore of San Francisco Bay, was excavated and subsequently destroyed in the early twentieth century. From its stratified deposits, which span the period 2600 to 700 years ago, the author identified 2,004 fish and 15,893 mammal specimens, and analyzed these and 2,302 avian remains previously identified by Hildegarde Howard in the 1920s. A battery of independent tests derived from foraging theory supports the conclusion that human-induced impacts on vertebrate populations caused declines in the efficiency of foraging across the time that the Emeryville locality was occupied.
California, Oregon, and Washington Archaeological Resource Study: Appendices
Author: 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.
Paleoseismic and Archaeologic Investigation of the Northern San Gregorio Fault, Seal Cove, San Mateo County, California
Author: 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.