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Author : Andrew Yatsko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : UCSD:31822030045801
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030767719
Author : Jeanne E. Arnold
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770197
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 : Terry L. Jones,Kathryn A. Klar
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Jon Erlandson,Terry L. Jones,Russell Stannard
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770678
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.
Author : Jeanne E. Arnold,Michael R. Walsh
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646425129
“California’s Ancient Past is an excellent introduction and overview of the archaeology and ancient peoples of this diverse and dynamic part of North America. Written in a concise and approachable format, the book provides an excellent foundation for students, the general public, and scholars working in other regions around the world. This book will be an important source of information on California’s ancient past for years to come.” —Torben C. Rick, Smithsonian Institution "California's Ancient Past is a well written, highly informative, and thought-provoking book; it will make a significant contribution to California archaeology. It is highly readable—the text and materials covered are suitable for both scholars and interested lay people. The book is well organized...with discussions about the culture history and theoretical perspectives of California archaeology and . . . the latest and most relevant references." —Kent Lightfoot, University of California, Berkeley “With California’s Ancient Past, Arnold and Walsh [offer] a well-written, interesting, and succinct archaeological summary of California from the terminal Pleistocene to historic contact.” —David S. Whitley, Journal of Anthropological Research
Author : Douglas J. Kennett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520243026
"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 : Kenneth E. Sassaman,Donald H. Holly
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816530434
Combining the latest empirical studies of archaeological practice with the latest conceptual tools of anthropological and historical theory, this volume seeks to set a new course for hunter-gatherer archaeolog.
Author : Torben C. Rick
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770319
California's northern Channel Islands have one of the longest and best-preserved archaeological records in the Americas, spanning some 13,000 calendar years. When European explorers first travelled to the area, these islands were inhabited by the Chumash, some of the most populous and culturally complex hunter-gatherers known. Chumash society was characterised by hereditary leaders, sophisticated exchange networks and interaction spheres, and diverse maritime economies. Focusing on the archaeology of five sites dated to the last 3,000 years, this book examines the archaeology and historical ecology of San Miguel Island, the westernmost and most isolated of the northern Channel Islands. Detailed faunal, artefact, and other data are woven together in a diachronic analysis that investigates the interplay of social and ecological developments on this unique island. The first to focus solely on San Miguel Island archaeology, this book examines issues ranging from coastal adaptations to emergent cultural complexity to historical ecology and human impacts on ancient environments.
Author : Raab,Cassidy
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759113183
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 : Dave Garcelon,Catherin A. Schwemm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UCSD:31822033857251
Author : Jon M Erlandson,Torben C Rick,Rene L Vellanoweth
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874808797
A summary of the deep history of Tecolote Canyon, a beautiful area of California's Santa Barbara coast that has been occupied by humans for at least 9000 years, using data from archaeology, ecology, geology, and geography.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015065458484
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : California
ISBN : IND:30000115546107
Author : Susana Soares Lopes,Sérgio Alexandre Gomes
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789699234
This collection of studies on the cultural reconfigurations that occurred in western Europe between the 3rd and 2nd millennium BCE focuses on the evidence from the West of the Iberian Peninsula, and one on the South of England. They explore regional diversity and challenge grand narratives regarding Chalcolithic and Bronze Age communities.