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Author : Terry L. Jones,Kathryn Klar,Society for California Archaeology
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0759108722
Reader of original synthesizing articles for introductory courses on archaeology and native peoples of California.
Author : Terry L. Jones,Kathryn A. Klar
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759113749
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!
Author : L. Mark Raab,Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89083360784
IN THIS ANTHOLOGY, Mark Raab and Terry Jones present a series of research articles that dispel lingering mythologies about California's prehistory. They begin with the most enduring notion--that of an essentially stable, benign climate--presenting evidence that prehistoric climate flux played a significant role in culture change. From there, Raab and Jones assault the myth of California as a natural cornucopia. They show that prehistoric foragers themselves had the capacity to negatively affect their animal food supplies, and that what is often considered the premier vegetal food, the acorn, appeared much later than many suppose in the diets of native peoples. This collection effectively summarizes the major debates surrounding California archaeology and provides a solid basis for a new, more nuanced view of the state's prehistory.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : California
ISBN : UCSC:32106012026446
Author : Gary S. Breschini,Trudy Haversat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017024337
Author : Jeanne E. Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008946845
Author : Terry L Jones,Jennifer E Perry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315431635
Recent archaeological research on California includes a greater diversity of models and approaches to the region’s past, as older literature on the subject struggles to stay relevant. This comprehensive volume offers an in-depth look at the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in the field including key controversies relevant to the Golden State: coastal colonization, impacts of comets and drought cycles, systems of power, Polynesian contacts, and the role of indigenous peoples in the research process, among others. With a specific emphasis on those aspects of California’s past that resonate with the state’s modern cultural identity, the editors and contributors—all leading figures in California archaeology—seek a new understanding of the myth and mystique of the Golden State.
Author : Terry L Jones,Georgie Waugh
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781950446094
Author : Don Laylander,Jerry D. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0813029651
Baja California, stretching 800 miles south into the Pacific Ocean from the California-Mexico border, has been called the "forgotten peninsula," a remote frontier whose natural wonders and history have remained largely unexplored. One of the world's longest peninsulas, Baja California harbors astonishing evidence of the hunting and gathering peoples who once lived here, yet the region has been little studied, and not much has been published about its archaeology and prehistory. This volume brings together recognized U.S. and Mexican scholars who have been actively engaged in primary research on the peninsula during the last two decades. It is the first comprehensive book-length study to describe and document new insights into an ancient past. Because of its relative isolation, the richness of its early historical record, and the comparatively pristine character of many parts of the peninsula, Baja California's prehistory is of particular interest to archaeologists and anthropologists. Beginning with topical essays on the emerging evidence from paleoenvironmental studies, linguistics, early historical documents, and 20th-century ethnographic studies, followed by chapters on the prehistory of seven of the peninsula's best studied regions, the authors also discuss potential directions for future research and the problem of protecting and preserving the physical traces of the prehistoric past. This book will be a standard reference for archaeologists, anthropologists, scientists, geographers, instructors of courses in North American prehistory, university libraries, and tourists.
Author : Cheryl Claassen,Rosemary A. Joyce
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0812216024
During the 1960s, scholars constructed a model of cultural evolution in which men cooperated in the hunting of big game while women gathered plant food, "immobilized" by pregnancy and childcare. The essays in Women in Prehistory challenge this model as they reconsider women's social and economic roles.
Author : R Lee Lyman
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598744569
This book is the first synthesis of the prehistory of the coast of Oregon. It analyzes the artifacts and mammalian faunal remains of three representative sites on the coast. A model of the evolution of cultural adaptational strategies is presented and tested, from which it creates a model of coastal cultural development. On a methodological level, the volume examines the overriding importance and effects of various sampling techniques.
Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89058385113
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
Author : Harold Mooney,Erika Zavaleta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520962170
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California’s remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type—its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of California’s ecological patterns and the history of the state’s various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the state’s ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of California’s environment and curious naturalists.
Author : David Leedom Shaul
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826354815
This book offers a new approach to the use of linguistic data to reconstruct prehistory. The author shows how a well-studied language family—in this case Uto-Aztecan—can be used as an instrument for reconstructing prehistory. The main focus of Shaul’s work is the mapping of Uto-Aztecan. By presenting various models of Uto-Aztecan prehistory, by assessing multiple models simultaneously, and by guiding readers through areas where the evidence is not so clear, Shaul helps nonspecialists develop the tools needed for evaluating various historical linguistics models themselves. He evaluates both archaeological and genetic evidence as well, placing it carefully alongside the linguistic evidence he knows best. Shaul’s thorough treatment provides many new avenues for future research on the historical anthropology of western North America.
Author : Roger H. Colten,Jon M. Erlandson
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770722
This volume is the first to bring together a number of studies on the Early Holocene of the California coast (ca. 10,000 to 6600 BP). Erlandson and Colten haveassembled contributions that may be of interest to a broad spectrum of scholars whose research pertains to any of the following: early sites in the Americas, coastal adaptations, hunter-gatherer adaptations, general Pacific coast prehistory, and the specific history of research on pre-6600 BP occupations of coastal California.
