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Author : Terry L. Jones,Kathryn Klar,Society for California Archaeology
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0759108722
Reader of original synthesizing articles for introductory courses on archaeology and native peoples of California.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : California
ISBN : LCCN:91228615
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038302209
Author : Terry L Jones,Jennifer E Perry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : California
ISBN : UCSC:32106012026446
Author : Don Laylander,Jerry D. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : L. Mark Raab,Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Gary S. Breschini,Trudy Haversat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017024337
Author : Terry L Jones,Georgie Waugh
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781950446094
Author : Eric W. Ritter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : California
ISBN : WISC:89058385683
Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Sonia Ragir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : California
ISBN : 1555674143
Author : Jon Erlandson,Terry L. Jones,Russell Stannard
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Michael J. Moratto
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483277356
California Archaeology provides a compilation of knowledge for archeologists who are not California specialists. This book explains important cultural events and patterns discovered archeologically. Organized into 11 chapters, this book begins with an overview of California's historic and ancient environments as well as the evidence of Pleistocene human activity. This text then examines the glacial and other environmental conditions that would have influenced the origins, adaptations, and spread of the earliest North Americans. Other chapters consider how California's past is relevant to a wider understanding of human behavior. This book discusses as well the perceptions of Central Coast and San Francisco Bay region prehistory that have changed rapidly as a result of intensive fieldwork performed to comply with environmental law. The final chapter deals with the data of historical linguistics, which indicate something of the cultural relationships and events that might have occurred in the past. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists.
Author : Jeffrey H. Altschul,Donn R. Grenda
Publisher : Statistical Research
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111889189
The southern California coast has been a favored place to live for nearly 12,000 years. Dotted with marshes, estuaries, cliffs, and open beaches, with islands and mountains lying nearby, the area is rich in resources. How humans have fit into this ecological diverse and ever-changing landscape is a constant theme in the prehistory of the region. Using comparative studies of island and coastal cultures from the Pacific, the authors show how the study of southern California's past can enlighten us about coastal adaptations worldwide. Drawing on sources from anthropology, ethnohistory, geoscience, and archaeology, their findings are presented in a readable fashion that will make Islanders and Mainlanders of interest not only to a wide range of scholars but to the general public as well. Jeffrey H. Altschul is President and Donn R. Grenda is Director of the California Office of Statistical Research, Inc., a cultural resource management consulting firm. Both have been extremely active in southern California archaeology, working on sites on the mainland and the Channel Islands.
