Essays On The Prehistory Of Maritime California

Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89058385113

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Essays on the Prehistory of Maritime California by Terry L. Jones Pdf

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 : Terry L. Jones,Kathryn Klar,Society for California Archaeology
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0759108722

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California Prehistory by Terry L. Jones,Kathryn Klar,Society for California Archaeology Pdf

Reader of original synthesizing articles for introductory courses on archaeology and native peoples of California.

Author : Raab,Cassidy
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759113183

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California Maritime Archaeology by Raab,Cassidy Pdf

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.

Author : Terry L Jones,Georgie Waugh
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781950446094

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Central California Coastal Prehistory by Terry L Jones,Georgie Waugh Pdf

Author : Michael Glassow,Terry L. Joslin
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770531

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Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis by Michael Glassow,Terry L. Joslin Pdf

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.

Author : Terry L Jones,Jennifer E Perry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315431642

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Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology by Terry L Jones,Jennifer E Perry Pdf

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 : Richard E. Hughes
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781607812005

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Perspectives on Prehistoric Trade and Exchange in California and the Great Basin by Richard E. Hughes Pdf

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.

Author : Jeanne E. Arnold
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770197

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Foundations of Chumash Complexity by Jeanne E. Arnold Pdf

This volume highlights the latest research on the foundations of sociopolitical complexity in coastal California. The populous maritime societies of southern California, particularly the groups known collectively as the Chumash, have gone largely unrecognized as prototypical complex hunter-gatherers, only recently beginning to emerge from the shadow of their more celebrated counterparts on the Northwest Coast of North America. While Northwest cultures are renowned for such complex institutions as ceremonial potlatches, slavery, cedar plank-house villages, and rich artistic traditions, the Chumash are increasingly recognized as complex hunter-gatherers with a different set of organizational characteristics: ascribed chiefly leadership, a strong maritime economy based on oceangoing canoes, an integrative ceremonial system, and intensive and highly specialized craft production activities. Chumash sites provide some of the most robust data on these subjects available in the Americas. Contributors present stimulating new analyses of household and village organization, ceremonial specialists, craft specializations and settlement data, cultural transmission processes, bead manufacturing practices, watercraft, and the acquisition of prized marine species.

Author : Mark Sutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317345237

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Prehistory of North America by Mark Sutton Pdf

A Prehistory of North America covers the ever-evolving understanding of the prehistory of North America, from its initial colonization, through the development of complex societies, and up to contact with Europeans. This book is the most up-to-date treatment of the prehistory of North America. In addition, it is organized by culture area in order to serve as a companion volume to “An Introduction to Native North America.” It also includes an extensive bibliography to facilitate research by both students and professionals.

Author : Roderick J. McIntosh,Joseph A. Tainter,Susan Keech McIntosh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231528801

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The Way the Wind Blows by Roderick J. McIntosh,Joseph A. Tainter,Susan Keech McIntosh Pdf

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Author : C. Britt Bousman,Bradley J. Vierra
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781603447607

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From the Pleistocene to the Holocene by C. Britt Bousman,Bradley J. Vierra Pdf

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event—which manifested in ways and at times much more varied than often supposed—set the stage for the unique developments of behavioral complexity that distinguish later Native American prehistoric societies. Using localized studies and broad regional syntheses, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the diversity of adaptations to the dynamic and changing environmental and cultural landscapes that occurred between the Pleistocene and early portion of the Holocene. The authors' research areas range from Northern Mexico to Alaska and across the continent to the American Northeast, synthesizing the copious available evidence from well-known and recent excavations.With its methodologically and geographically diverse approach, From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America provides an overview of the present state of knowledge regarding this crucial transformative period in Native North America. It offers a large-scale synthesis of human adaptation, reflects the range of ideas and concepts in current archaeological theoretical approaches, and acts as a springboard for future explanations and models of prehistoric change.

Author : Todd J. Braje,Torben C. Rick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780520267268

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Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters by Todd J. Braje,Torben C. Rick Pdf

“The bones recovered from the middens of the northeastern Pacific shorelines have important stories to tell biologists, marine mammalogists, and those concerned with marine conservation. This volume unearths a wealth of information about the historical ecology of seals, sea lions, and sea otters in the North Pacific that spans thousands of years. It provides fascinating insights into how the world once looked, and how it may one day look again as seals, sea lions, and sea otters reclaim and recolonize their former haunts.”—Andrew Trites, Director, Marine Mammal Research Unit, University of British Columbia “Braje and Rick have assembled a compelling set of case studies on the long-term and complex interactions between people, marine mammals, and environments in the Northeast Pacific. The promise of zooarchaeology as historical science is on full display, as researchers use geochemistry, aDNA, morphometrics, and traditional analytic methods to address questions of utmost importance to the long-term health of coastal ecosystems. If this book doesn't convince conservation biology about the need to take the long view of animal histories and ecosystems into account in developing conservation management plans, I'm not sure what will.”—Virginia L. Butler, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University

Author : Ludomir R. Lozny,Thomas H. McGovern
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030158002

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Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management by Ludomir R. Lozny,Thomas H. McGovern Pdf

Communal-level resource management successes and failures comprise complex interactions that involve local, regional, and (increasingly) global scale political, economic, and environmental changes, shown to have recurring patterns and trajectories. The human past provides examples of long-term millennial and century-scale successes followed by undesired transitions (“collapse”), and rapid failure of collaborative management cooperation on the decadal scale. Management of scarce resources and common properties presents a critical challenge for planners attempting to avoid the "tragedy of the commons" in this century. Here, anthropologists, human ecologists, archaeologists, and environmental scientists discuss strategies for social well-being in the context of diminishing resources and increasing competition. The contributors in this volume revisit “tragedy of the commons” (also referred to as “drama” or “comedy” of the commons) and examine new data and theories to mitigate pressures and devise models for sustainable communal welfare and development. They present twelve archaeological, historic, and ethnographic cases of user-managed resources to demonstrate that very basic community-level participatory governance can be a successful strategy to manage short-term risk and benefits. The book connects past-present-future by presenting geographically and chronologically spaced out examples of communal-level governance strategies, and overviews of the current cutting-edge research. The lesson we learn from studying past responses to various ecological stresses is that we must not wait for a disaster to happen to react, but must react to mitigate conditions for emerging disasters.

Author : Douglas J. Kennett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520243026

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The Island Chumash by Douglas J. Kennett Pdf

"Kennett explores trends in demography, dietary expansion, economic intensification, and increasing sociopolitical sophistication evident in the archaeological record. By combining empirical findings based on new archaeological and paleoclimatic work and a thorough synthesis of earlier studies, Kennett argues that the social and political complexity evident among the island Chumash historically was ultimately a product of individual responses to demographic expansion, human impact on marine habitats, and periods of rapid climatic change."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jon Erlandson,Terry L. Jones,Russell Stannard
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770678

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Catalysts to Complexity by Jon Erlandson,Terry L. Jones,Russell Stannard Pdf

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.