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Book Catalysts to Complexity

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  • Author : Jon Erlandson
  • Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
  • Release : 2003-07-01
  • ISBN : 1938770676
  • Pages : 385 pages

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.

Book California State Publications

Download or read book California State Publications written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaeological Data Recovery at CA SCR 44  at the Site of the Lakeview Middle School  Watsonville  Santa Cruz County  California

Download or read book Archaeological Data Recovery at CA SCR 44 at the Site of the Lakeview Middle School Watsonville Santa Cruz County California written by Gary S. Breschini and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology

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Book An Offramp on the Kelp Highway

Download or read book An Offramp on the Kelp Highway written by Gary S. Breschini and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaeological Testing and Salvage at CA MNT 63  CA MNT 73  and CA MNT 376  on the Big Sur Coast  Monterey County  California

Download or read book Archaeological Testing and Salvage at CA MNT 63 CA MNT 73 and CA MNT 376 on the Big Sur Coast Monterey County California written by Terry L. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Final Report

Download or read book Final Report written by Randy S. Wiberg and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Preliminary Archaeological Report and Archaeological Management Recommendations for CA MNT 170  on Pescadero Point  Monterey County  California

Download or read book Preliminary Archaeological Report and Archaeological Management Recommendations for CA MNT 170 on Pescadero Point Monterey County California written by Gary S. Breschini and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Offramp on the Kelp Highway

Download or read book An Offramp on the Kelp Highway written by Trudy Haversat and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Capital Preventive Maintenance

Download or read book Capital Preventive Maintenance written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: