Download or read book A Taxonomic Analysis of Avian Faunal Remains from Three Archaeological Sites in Marina Del Rey Los Angeles County California written by Joan C. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Taxonomic Analysis and Anthropological Interpretation of Avian Faunal Remains from Three Archaeological Sites in Marina Del Rey California written by Joan Celeste Brown and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalysts to Complexity written by Jon Erlandson and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Archaeological Investigations of Some Significant Sites on the Central Coast of California written by Herb Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pueblo Bonito Mounds of Chaco Canyon written by Patricia L. Crown and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists use the artifacts and fauna they found to examine the lives and activities of the inhabitants of Pueblo Bonito as well as to further interpret current models of Chaco archaeology.
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Anthropology and Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Late Holocene Trends in Prehistoric Waterfowl Exploitation written by Shannon Marie Goshen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent studies of faunal assemblages from archaeological sites in the Sacramento Valley, California have illustrated substantial anthropogenic impacts to local game populations and distributions during the late Holocene. Resource intensification analyses document a decrease in foraging efficiency and suggest populations of profitable mammals and fish were increasingly depressed through the late Holocene. Yet, limited research on the impacts of harvest pressures on prehistoric bird resources exists for the region. Modeling a similar study of avifauna exploitation in the San Francisco Bay, I test the hypothesis that profitable avian taxa were depressed by prehistoric hunters in the lower Sacramento Valley through a comprehensive analysis of avifauna remains from two sites in the lower Sacramento Valley (CA-SAC-15/H and CA-SAC-29). Results are suggestive of resource depression and show avifauna assemblages dominated by waterfowl in which the most profitable taxa (geese) decline in relative abundance over the time of occupation at both sites. A comprehensive analysis of taxonomic composition and taphonomy, and a review of regional archaeofaunal records, waterfowl life histories, and micro-regional paleoclimate contexts, provide clarification on observed trends in relative abundance and supporting evidence for avian resource depression.
Download or read book A Vertebrate Faunal Analysis Coding System with North American Taxonomy and DBase Support Programs and Procedures Version 3 3 written by Brian S. Shaffer and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present the constructs for a logical and hierarchal vertebrate coding system for use in the analysis of faunal remains from archaeological sites. FACS consists of a series of numeric codes for recording information on 24 attributes for each faunal specimen.
Download or read book An Analysis and Interpretation of the Faunal Remains from Eight Late Middle Woodland Owl Hollow Phase Sites in Coffee Franklin and Bedford Counties Tennessee written by Neil Douglas Robison and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of Faunal Remains from Ca Scr 42 written by Eric Blinman and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Type Specimens of Avian Fossils in the Collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County written by Hildegarde Howard and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Function and Status written by Karen Nickels and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay is a study of faunal remains from the archaeological site of Pusilhá, Toledo District, Belize. Based upon data collected by the Pusilhá Archaeological Project over five seasons of survey in the field, I argue that the remains of large game animals, especially deer, supports conclusions about social differentiation reached by Braswell and Volta and shows which areas may have been used for ceremonial functions.
Download or read book A Faunal Analysis of Avian Bones from 175 Water Street written by Edwina Williams Gluck and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Faunal Remains in Archaeological Investigations written by Alan C. Ziegler and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeological Faunal Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Faunal Remains in Archeological Investigations written by Alan C. Ziegler and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
