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Book Integrated Post Authorization Decision Document for the San Luis Rey Flood Control Project from College Blvd  to the Pacific Ocean  San Diego County

Download or read book Integrated Post Authorization Decision Document for the San Luis Rey Flood Control Project from College Blvd to the Pacific Ocean San Diego County written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalysts to Complexity

    Book Details:
  • 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 Lost Laborers in Colonial California

Download or read book Lost Laborers in Colonial California written by Stephen W. Silliman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native Americans who populated the various ranchos of Mexican California as laborers are people frequently lost to history. The "rancho period" was a critical time for California Indians, as many were drawn into labor pools for the flourishing ranchos following the 1834 dismantlement of the mission system, but they are practically absent from the documentary record and from popular histories. This study focuses on Rancho Petaluma north of San Francisco Bay, a large livestock, agricultural, and manufacturing operation on which several hundredÑperhaps as many as two thousandÑNative Americans worked as field hands, cowboys, artisans, cooks, and servants. One of the largest ranchos in the region, it was owned from 1834 to 1857 by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, one of the most prominent political figures of Mexican California. While historians have studied Vallejo, few have considered the Native Americans he controlled, so we know little of what their lives were like or how they adjusted to the colonial labor regime. Because VallejoÕs Petaluma Adobe is now a state historic park and one of the most well-protected rancho sites in California, this site offers unparalleled opportunities to investigate nineteenth-century rancho life via archaeology. Using the Vallejo rancho as a case study, Stephen Silliman examines this California rancho with a particular eye toward Native American participation. Through the archaeological recordÑtools and implements, containers, beads, bone and shell artifacts, food remainsÑhe reconstructs the daily practices of Native peoples at Rancho Petaluma and the labor relations that structured indigenous participation in and experience of rancho life. This research enables him to expose the multi-ethnic nature of colonialism, counterbalancing popular misconceptions of Native Americans as either non-participants in the ranchos or passive workers with little to contribute to history. Lost Laborers in Colonial California draws on archaeological data, material studies, and archival research, and meshes them with theoretical issues of labor, gender, and social practice to examine not only how colonial worlds controlled indigenous peoples and practices but also how Native Americans lived through and often resisted those impositions. The book fills a gap in the regional archaeological and historical literature as it makes a unique contribution to colonial and contact-period studies in the Spanish/Mexican borderlands and beyond.

Book Archaeological Data Recovery at CA SBR 8091 H

Download or read book Archaeological Data Recovery at CA SBR 8091 H written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encinitas and Solana Beach Shoreline Protection Project

Download or read book Encinitas and Solana Beach Shoreline Protection Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 672 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 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance for a Proposed Flood Control Project in the Lower San Luis Rey River Drainage

Download or read book A Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance for a Proposed Flood Control Project in the Lower San Luis Rey River Drainage written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonial Worlds  Indigenous Practices

Download or read book Colonial Worlds Indigenous Practices written by Stephen Walter Silliman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Passage in Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Ciolek-Torrello
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book A Passage in Time written by Richard Ciolek-Torrello and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book documents archaeological and historical investigations undertaken for the California Department of Parks and Recreation at four sites in what is today part of the Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park near Chatsworth. Necessitated by damage to the sites resulting from the maintenance of access roads in 1993, the research included an inventory of the archaeological remains, small-scale test excavations, analyses of prehistoric and historical-period artifacts, a search of historical records, and an overview of the known archaeological sites in the surrounding region."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Early Hunter Gatherers of the California Coast

Download or read book Early Hunter Gatherers of the California Coast written by Jon M. Erlandson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on detailed excavation data, the author reconstructs the paleography of the Santa Barbara coast ca. 8500 years ago, makes comparisons to other early California sites, and applies his findings to current theories of hunter-gatherers and coastal environments. With an emphasis on paleographic reconstructions, site formation processes, chronological studies, and integrated faunal analyses, the work will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in shell middens, hunter-gatherer ecology, geoarchaeology, and coatal or aquatic adaptations.

Book Tom Kav

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. L. True
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1991-12-04
  • ISBN : 0520097599
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Tom Kav written by D. L. True and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-12-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph describes the setting, features, and artifacts recovered from a major San Luis Rey II (prehistoric Luiseño) village in northern San Diego County, California. Even though there are some limitations in the samples, this study provides the basis for comparative analyses of several other regional San Luis Rey II villages and sets the stage for a synthetic discussion of late prehistoric settlements in the San Luis Rey River basin.

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 San Diego County  Vicinity of Oceanside  California

Download or read book San Diego County Vicinity of Oceanside California written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oceans 2003

Download or read book Oceans 2003 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life on the Dunes

Download or read book Life on the Dunes written by Brian M. Fagan and published by Statistical Research. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights archeological findings on the remote San Nicolas Island off the coast of the California. Includes tables, graphs, and photographs.

Book Annual Report   Archaeological Survey

Download or read book Annual Report Archaeological Survey written by University of California, Los Angeles. Archaeological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: