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Book California Prehistory

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  • Author : Terry L. Jones
  • Publisher : Rowman Altamira
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780759108721
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book California Prehistory written by Terry L. Jones and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2007 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader of original synthesizing articles for introductory courses on archaeology and native peoples of California.

Book Central California Coastal Prehistory

Download or read book Central California Coastal Prehistory written by Terry L Jones and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 1995-12-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Craft Specialization in the Prehistoric Channel Islands  California

Download or read book Craft Specialization in the Prehistoric Channel Islands California written by Jeanne E. Arnold and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chumash World at European Contact

Download or read book The Chumash World at European Contact written by Lynn H. Gamble and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Chumash World at European Contact is a major achievement that will be required reading and a fundamental reference in a variety of disciplines for years to come."—Thomas C. Blackburn, editor of December's Child: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives "An extremely valuable synthesis of the historical, ethnographic, and archaeological record of one of the most remarkable populations of Native Californians."—Glenn J. Farris, Senior Archaeologist, California State Parks Department

Book Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics

Download or read book Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics written by David G. Anderson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures. Across this span, climatic conditions changed rapidly, with cooling in the high to mid-latitudes and drying in the tropics. In many parts of the world, human groups became more complex, with early horticultural systems replaced by intensive agriculture and small-scale societies being replaced by larger, more hierarchial organizations. Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics explores the cause and effect relationship between climatic change and cultural transformations across the mid-Holocene (c. 4000 B.C.). - Explores the role of climatic change on the development of society around the world - Chapters detail diverse geographical regions - Co-written by noted archaeologists and paleoclimatologists for non-specialists

Book Prehistoric California

Download or read book Prehistoric California written by L. Mark Raab and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Chumash and Their Predecessors

Download or read book The Chumash and Their Predecessors written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cachuma Lake  Resource Management Plan

Download or read book Cachuma Lake Resource Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shell Hercules Offshore Project  Santa Barbara County

Download or read book Shell Hercules Offshore Project Santa Barbara County written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Socialising Complexity

Download or read book Socialising Complexity written by Sheila Kohring and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socialising Complexity introduces the concept of complexity as a tool, rather than a category, for understanding social formations. This new take on complexity moves beyond the traditional concern with what constitutes a complex society and focuses on the complexity inherent in various social forms through the structuring principles created within each society. The aims and themes of the book can thus be summarized as follows: to introduce the idea of complexity as a tool, which is pertinent to the understanding of all types of society, rather than an exclusionary type of society in its own right; to examine concepts that can enhance our interpretation of societal complexity, such as heterarchy, materialization and contextualization. These concepts are applied at different scales and in different ways, illustrating their utility in a variety of different cases; to reestablish social structure as a topic of study within archaeology, which can be profitably studied by proponents of both processual and post-processual methodologies.

Book Islanders and Mainlanders

Download or read book Islanders and Mainlanders written by Jeffrey H. Altschul and published by Statistical Research. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The southern California coast has been a favored place to live for nearly 12,000 years. Dotted with marshes, estuaries, cliffs, and open beaches, with islands and mountains lying nearby, the area is rich in resources. How humans have fit into this ecological diverse and ever-changing landscape is a constant theme in the prehistory of the region. Using comparative studies of island and coastal cultures from the Pacific, the authors show how the study of southern California's past can enlighten us about coastal adaptations worldwide. Drawing on sources from anthropology, ethnohistory, geoscience, and archaeology, their findings are presented in a readable fashion that will make Islanders and Mainlanders of interest not only to a wide range of scholars but to the general public as well. Jeffrey H. Altschul is President and Donn R. Grenda is Director of the California Office of Statistical Research, Inc., a cultural resource management consulting firm. Both have been extremely active in southern California archaeology, working on sites on the mainland and the Channel Islands.

Book America  History and Life

Download or read book America History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hunter gatherer Land Use in the San Antonio Creek Drainage

Download or read book Hunter gatherer Land Use in the San Antonio Creek Drainage written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hobbies

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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 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: