Download or read book Upper San Joaquin River Basin Storage Investigation written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Late Prehistoric Territorial Expansion and Maintenance in the South central Sierra Nevada California written by Christopher Thomas Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While logistically organized and sedentary hunter-gatherers have been characterized as more efficient resource exploiters with adaptive advantages over simpler, mobile foragers, the mobile Western Mono successfully migrated to the western slope of the south-central Sierra Nevada, California, outcompeting and displacing more sedentary groups some 600 years ago. They did so during a shift from benign, warm, and dry to marginal, cold, and wet environmental conditions. Assuming that settlement and subsistence behaviors are adaptive mechanisms that confer advantages (and disadvantages) to groups competing to occupy territory, this research focuses on reconstructing Western Mono settlement, transport, and storage behaviors in light of patchy montane resource distributions resulting from late Holocene climate change. This theoretical approach directs analysis towards reconstructing competitive hunter-gatherer subsistence behaviors during a period where when resources were particularly patchy with regard to time, space, and elevation. Such behaviors were those that best averaged temporal and spatial variability in resource availability. For the Mono, these behaviors were seasonal residential mobility and acorn transport and caching. Residential mobility effectively averaged resource base variability by bringing consumers to resources during peak environmental productivity. Transport of acorn to winter hamlets and high elevations was important to this strategy, bringing resources to consumers in winter and reducing uncertainty when entering resource-poor environments in summer. Dispersed and expedient acorn caching offset the temporal variability of resource availability. Acorn caches are distributed in efficient and risk-reducing logistical foraging radii that effectively provisioned lowland winter settlements. Caches not only sustained winter populations, but also facilitated spring and summer moves by providing reliable food stores near highland spring and summer camps. Combined, Mono transport, mobility, and storage effectively averaged pronounced spatial and temporal variance in the environment's production of key resources during the late Holocene neoglacial, behaviors ultimately leading to their successful migration and territorial maintenance. These findings ultimately imply that when hunter-gatherers compete; to occupy territory, behaviors thought of as simple, such as residential mobility and expedient technology, can confer competitive advantages to their practitioners and that the success or failure of competing behaviors is intrinsically linked to the ecological contexts in which they occur."--Abstract

Download or read book Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Archaeology of the Southern San Joaquin Valley California written by Alfred Louis Kroeber and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Archaeology of the Southern San Joaquin Valley California written by Edward Winslow Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse written by Tsim D. Schneider and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse explores the dual practices of refuge and recourse among Indigenous peoples of California. From the eighteenth to the twentieth century, Indigenous Coast Miwok communities in California persisted throughout multiple waves of colonial intrusion. But to what ends? Applying theories of place and landscape, social memory, and mobility to the analysis of six archaeological sites, Tsim D. Schneider argues for a new direction in the archaeology of colonialism. This book offers insight about the critical and ongoing relationships Indigenous people maintained to their homelands despite colonization and systematic destruction of their cultural sites. Schneider is a citizen of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, the sovereign and federally recognized tribe of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo people whose ancestral homelands and homewaters are the central focus of The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse. Viewing this colonial narrative from an Indigenous perspective, Schneider focuses on the nearly one quarter of Coast Miwok people who survived the missions and created outlets within and beyond colonial settlements to resist and endure colonialism. Fleeing these colonial missions and other establishments and taking refuge around the San Francisco Bay Area, Coast Miwok people sought to protect their identities by remaining connected to culturally and historically significant places. Mobility and a sense of place further enabled Coast Miwok people to find recourse and make decisions about their future through selective participation in colonial projects. In this book, Tsim D. Schneider argues that these distancing and familiarizing efforts contribute to the resilience of Coast Miwok communities and a sense of relevance and belonging to stolen lands and waters. Facing death, violence, and the pervading uncertainty of change, Indigenous people of the Marin Peninsula balanced the pull and persistence of place against the unknown possibilities of a dynamic colonial landscape and the forward-thinking required to survive. History, change, and the future can be read in the story of Coast Miwok people.

Download or read book American Archaeology and Ethnology written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology written by Alfred Louis Kroeber and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology written by University of California (1868-1952) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Publication written by University of California, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book University of California Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book University of California Publications written by Frederic Ward Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Archaeology written by Michael J. Moratto and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Upper San Joaquin Valley 1772 1870 written by Genevieve Kratka Magruder and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the early Spanish explorations, the American explorations, and the beginning of farming and ranching in the valley.