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 seek to dispel 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...
In this anthology, Mark Raab and Terry Jones present a series of research articles that dispel lingering mythologies about California s prehistory....
The Plateau region of the Pacific Northwest witnessed the emergence, persistence, and decline of a diverse array of hunter-gatherer communities during the course of a past several thousand year period. Consequently, the region contains an archaeological record of groups who lived at times in permanent villages, employed complex resource procurement and processing strategies, participated in wide-ranging trade networks, and maintained social organizations featuring high degrees of social inequality.
Complex Hunter-Gatherers presents a broad synthesis of the archaeology of the...
The Plateau region of the Pacific Northwest witnessed the emergence, persistence, and decline of a diverse array of hunter-gatherer communities dur...
The region stretching across the Arctic from the Bering Straits to Greenland is one of the most critical for understating modern global climate change, especially as it affects keystone species and indigenous peoples. However, substantial changes in the arctic environment are not solely modern phenomena. The period between AD 900 and 1400 witnessed some of the most dynamic and variable arctic climates since the last Ice Age. Throughout the period from the Medieval Climatic Anomaly (an unusually warm period) to the Little Ice Age, this region also saw two of the greatest migrations in human...
The region stretching across the Arctic from the Bering Straits to Greenland is one of the most critical for understating modern global climate change...
There is a growing consensus in the scientific realm that the world s oceans are reaching a state of crisis as commercial fisheries are more widely overexploited and many coastal ecosystems are approaching collapse. A number of scientists and resource managers have argued that a successful understanding of the current crisis can be found through the development of a deeper historical perspective of the ecology of coastal ecosystems and the impacts that humans have had on them. In "Modern Oceans, Ancient Sites: Archaeology and Marine Conservation on San Miguel Island, California," Todd Braje...
There is a growing consensus in the scientific realm that the world s oceans are reaching a state of crisis as commercial fisheries are more widely ov...
California's Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that extend along the state's southern coastline from Santa Barbara's Point Conception to the Mexican border. Popular tourist destinations today, these islands once supported some of the earliest human populations in the Americas; archaeological evidence of maritime Paleo-Indian settlements on the northern islands dates back some 13,000 years. The indigenous peoples of the islands--the Chumash of the northern islands and the Tongva of the southern islands--thrived into historic times by relying upon the abundance and diversity of...
California's Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that extend along the state's southern coastline from Santa Barbara's Point Conception to th...
California's Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that extend along the state's southern coastline from Santa Barbara's Point Conception to the Mexican border. Popular tourist destinations today, these islands once supported some of the earliest human populations in the Americas; archaeological evidence of maritime Paleo-Indian settlements on the northern islands dates back some 13,000 years. The indigenous peoples of the islands--the Chumash of the northern islands and the Tongva of the southern islands--thrived into historic times by relying upon the abundance and diversity of...
California's Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that extend along the state's southern coastline from Santa Barbara's Point Conception to th...
