Prehistoric California

Author : Richard E. Hughes
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Guy E. Gibbon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136801792

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Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America by Guy E. Gibbon Pdf

First published in 1998. Did prehistoric humans walk to North America from Siberia? Who were the inhabitants of the spectacular Anasazi cliff dwellings in the Southwest and why did they disappear? Native Americans used acorns as a major food source, but how did they get rid of the tannic acid which is toxic to humans? How does radiocarbon dating work and how accurate is it? Written for the informed lay person, college-level student, and professional, Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia is an important resource for the study of the earliest North Americans; including facts, theories, descriptions, and speculations on the ancient nomads and hunter-gathers that populated continental North America.

Author : Timothy G. Baugh,Jonathon E. Ericson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781475762310

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Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America by Timothy G. Baugh,Jonathon E. Ericson Pdf

In this unique volume, archaeologists examine the changing economic structure of trade in North America over a period of 6,000 years. Organined by geographical and chronological divisions, each chapter focuses on trade in one of nine regions from the Arachiac through the late prehistoric period. Each contribution explores neighboring areas to llustrate the complexity of North American exchange. By charting the econmic structure of these regions, archaeologists, economic anthropologists, and economic geographers gain greater insight into the dynamics of North American trade and exchange on a continental wide basis.

Author : Terry L. Jones,Kathryn A. Klar
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759113749

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California Prehistory by Terry L. Jones,Kathryn A. Klar Pdf

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 : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X55873

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Transition in Prehistoric Diet, Mobility, Exchange, and Social Organization Along California's Big Sur Coast by Terry L. Jones Pdf

Author : PERISIC
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483294674

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Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange by PERISIC Pdf

Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange

Author : Jonathon E. Ericson,Barbara A. Purdy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521256224

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Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production by Jonathon E. Ericson,Barbara A. Purdy Pdf

This book was originally published in 1984. For over a million years rocks provided human beings with the essential raw materials for the production of tools. Nevertheless we still know very little about the behaviour and processes that resulted in the creation of archaeological sites at or near lithic quarries. In the past archaeologists have placed much emphasis on the process of 'exchange' in their analysis of prehistoric economies while largely ignoring the sources of the exchanged objects. However, with the development of interest in the means of production, these sites have begun to take on a new significance. Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production is the first systematic study of archaeological sites that served as quarries for stone tools. Its theoretical and methodological importance will extend its appeal beyond those archaeologists concerned with lithic technology and prehistoric exchange systems to archaeologists and anthropologists in general and to geographers and geologists.

Author : David Addison,Rintaro Ono,Alex Morrison
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781925021264

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Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo-Pacific Regions by David Addison,Rintaro Ono,Alex Morrison Pdf

Although historic sources provide information on recent centuries, archaeology can contribute longer term understandings of pre-industrial marine exploitation in the Indo-Pacific region, providing valuable baseline data for evaluating contemporary ecological trends. This volume contains eleven papers which constitute a diverse but coherent collection on past and present marine resource use in the Indo-Pacific region, within a human-ecological perspective. The geographical focus extends from Eastern Asia, mainly Japan and Insular Southeast Asia (especially the Philippines) to the tropical Pacific (Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia) and outlying sites in coastal Tanzania (Indian Ocean) and coastal California (North Pacific). The volume is divided thematically and temporally into four parts: Part 1, Prehistoric and historic marine resource use in the Indo-Pacific Region; Part 2, Specific marine resource use in the Pacific and Asia; Part 3, Marine use and material culture in the Western Pacific; and Part 4, Modern marine use and resource management.

Author : L. Mark Raab,Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89083360784

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Prehistoric California by L. Mark Raab,Terry L. Jones Pdf

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 : Harold Mooney,Erika Zavaleta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520962170

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Ecosystems of California by Harold Mooney,Erika Zavaleta Pdf

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 : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Geoff Bailey,John Parkington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521250366

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The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines by Geoff Bailey,John Parkington Pdf

The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines offers a conspectus of recent work on coastal archaeology examining the various ways in which hunter-gatherers and farmers across the world exploited marine resources such as fish, shellfish and waterfowl in prehistory. Changes in sea levels and the balance of marine ecosystems have altered coastal environments significantly over the last ten thousand years and the contributors assess the impact of these changes on the nature of human settlement and subsistence. An overview of coastal archaeology as a developing discipline is followed by ten case studies from a wide variety of places including Scandinavia, Japan, Tasmania and New Zealand, Peru, South Africa and the United States.

Author : Emory Adams Allen
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1885-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465545299

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The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen Pdf

Author : Roger H. Colten,Jon M. Erlandson
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770722

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Hunter-Gatherers of Early Holocene Coastal California by Roger H. Colten,Jon M. Erlandson Pdf

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.

Author : Alice Beck Kehoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315416397

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Traveling Prehistoric Seas by Alice Beck Kehoe Pdf

Until recently the theory that people could have traversed large expanses of ocean in prehistoric times was considered pseudoscience. But recent discoveries in places as disparate as Australia, Labrador, Crete, California, and Chile open the possibility that ancient oceans were highways, not barriers, and that ancient people possessed the means and motives to traverse them. In this brief, thought-provoking, but controversial book Alice Kehoe considers the existing evidence in her reassessment of ancient sailing. Her book-critically analyzes the growing body of evidence on prehistoric sailing to help scholars and students evaluate a highly controversial hypothesis;-examines evidence from archaeology, anthropology, botany, art, mythology, linguistics, maritime technology, architecture, paleopathology, and other disciplines;-presents her evidence in student-accessible language to allow instructors to use this work for teaching critical thinking skills.