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Book Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis

Download or read book Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis written by Michael Glassow and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the practice of archaeology benefit from faunal analysis? Michael Glassow and Terry Joslin's Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis: Insights from California Archaeology addresses this question. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how faunal remains can be used to elucidate subsistence, settlement, technological systems, economic exchange, social organization, adaptation to variability in resource distribution and abundance, and the impacts of historic land use. The sheer prevalence of faunal remains in California archaeological sites means that most archaeologists working in the state inevitably must give these resources their close attention-and yet methodological challenges remain. The chapters in this thoughtfully edited volume tackle these challenges, providing strategies for identifying and mitigating sample bias and recommending quantitative techniques borrowed from a variety of disciplines. The volume also presents examples that illustrate the use of faunal data to test hypotheses derived from microeconomic theory, the applicability of bone and shell chemistry to faunal analysis, and the relevance of faunal data to addressing issues in biology.

Book The Island Chumash

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas J. Kennett
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2005-04-04
  • ISBN : 0520243021
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Island Chumash written by Douglas J. Kennett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kennett explores trends in demography, dietary expansion, economic intensification, and increasing sociopolitical sophistication evident in the archaeological record. By combining empirical findings based on new archaeological and paleoclimatic work and a thorough synthesis of earlier studies, Kennett argues that the social and political complexity evident among the island Chumash historically was ultimately a product of individual responses to demographic expansion, human impact on marine habitats, and periods of rapid climatic change."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Foundations of Chumash Complexity

Download or read book Foundations of Chumash Complexity written by Jeanne E. Arnold and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights the latest research on the foundations of sociopolitical complexity in coastal California. The populous maritime societies of southern California, particularly the groups known collectively as the Chumash, have gone largely unrecognized as prototypical complex hunter-gatherers, only recently beginning to emerge from the shadow of their more celebrated counterparts on the Northwest Coast of North America. While Northwest cultures are renowned for such complex institutions as ceremonial potlatches, slavery, cedar plank-house villages, and rich artistic traditions, the Chumash are increasingly recognized as complex hunter-gatherers with a different set of organizational characteristics: ascribed chiefly leadership, a strong maritime economy based on oceangoing canoes, an integrative ceremonial system, and intensive and highly specialized craft production activities. Chumash sites provide some of the most robust data on these subjects available in the Americas. Contributors present stimulating new analyses of household and village organization, ceremonial specialists, craft specializations and settlement data, cultural transmission processes, bead manufacturing practices, watercraft, and the acquisition of prized marine species.

Book San Clemente Island  Feral Animal Removal

Download or read book San Clemente Island Feral Animal Removal written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island

Download or read book The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island written by Torben C. Rick and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California's northern Channel Islands have one of the longest and best-preserved archaeological records in the Americas, spanning some 13,000 calendar years. When European explorers first travelled to the area, these islands were inhabited by the Chumash, some of the most populous and culturally complex hunter-gatherers known. Chumash society was characterised by hereditary leaders, sophisticated exchange networks and interaction spheres, and diverse maritime economies. Focusing on the archaeology of five sites dated to the last 3,000 years, this book examines the archaeology and historical ecology of San Miguel Island, the westernmost and most isolated of the northern Channel Islands. Detailed faunal, artefact, and other data are woven together in a diachronic analysis that investigates the interplay of social and ecological developments on this unique island. The first to focus solely on San Miguel Island archaeology, this book examines issues ranging from coastal adaptations to emergent cultural complexity to historical ecology and human impacts on ancient environments.

Book Archaeology on the Northern Channel Islands of California

Download or read book Archaeology on the Northern Channel Islands of California written by Brenda Bowser and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Channel Islands National Monument  N M   National Park  N P    Statement for Management  1976  B1  San Miguel and Prince Islands  Statement for Management  1978  B2  Alternatives for Visitor Use  Interpretation  General Development  Environmental Assessment  EA   1979  B3  Draft Natural and Cultural Resource s  Management Plan  RMP   Environmental Assessment  EA  B4  Natural and Cultural Resource Management  General Management Plan  GMP  B5 v 2   Natural and Cultural Resource Management Program  Addendum to the General Management Plan  GMP  B6  Resource Protection Case Study  1982  B7  Draft Land Protection Plan  1983

Download or read book Channel Islands National Monument N M National Park N P Statement for Management 1976 B1 San Miguel and Prince Islands Statement for Management 1978 B2 Alternatives for Visitor Use Interpretation General Development Environmental Assessment EA 1979 B3 Draft Natural and Cultural Resource s Management Plan RMP Environmental Assessment EA B4 Natural and Cultural Resource Management General Management Plan GMP B5 v 2 Natural and Cultural Resource Management Program Addendum to the General Management Plan GMP B6 Resource Protection Case Study 1982 B7 Draft Land Protection Plan 1983 written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory

Download or read book Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory written by Michael B Schiffer and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 5 presents the progressive explorations in methods and theory in archeology. This book provides information pertinent to the developments in urban archeology. Organized into nine chapters, this volume begins with an overview of cultural resource management developed to assess the significance of, and to manage the cultural resources on public lands. This text then explores the basic aspects of natural and human-caused changes on the portion of the archaeological resource base consisting of archaeological sites. Other chapters consider the practice of urban archeology in the United States, with emphasis on the relationships between human behavior and material culture in an urban setting. This book discusses as well the applications of computer graphics in archeology. The final chapter deals with the types of skeletal and population changes that accompany malnutrition. This book is a valuable resource for anthropologist, archaeologists, urban planners, and graduate students.

Book Channel Island Marine Sanctuary  Designation

Download or read book Channel Island Marine Sanctuary Designation written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology

Download or read book Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Final environmental impact statement prepared on the proposed Channel Islands marine sanctuary

Download or read book Final environmental impact statement prepared on the proposed Channel Islands marine sanctuary written by National Ocean Survey. Office of Coastal Zone Management and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Draft Environmental Impact Statement Prepared on the Proposed Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary

Download or read book Draft Environmental Impact Statement Prepared on the Proposed Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary written by National Ocean Survey. Office of Coastal Zone Management and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: