Prehistoric California

by Raab, L. Mark; Jones, Terry L.

• ISBN13: 9780874807851
• ISBN10: 0874807859
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-18
• Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr

Table of Contents

The Rediscovery of California Prehistory	p. 1
Environmental Crises and Culture Change	p. 11
Environmental Imperatives Reconsidered: Demographic Crises in Western North America During the Medieval Climatic Anomaly	p. 12
Hunter-Gatherers in a Land of Plenty?	p. 33
Declines in Mammalian Foraging Efficiency During the Late Holocene, San Francisco Bay	p. 34
Evolution of Marine Mammal Hunting: A View from the California and Oregon Coasts	p. 53
Trans-Holocene Marine Mammal Exploitation on San Clemente Island: A Tragedy of the Commons Revisited	p. 73
Resource Intensification Among Hunter-Gatherers: Acorn Economies in Prehistoric California	p. 86
Health in Prehistoric Populations of the Santa Barbara Channel Islands	p. 99
One If by Land, Two If by Sea	p. 107
Anatomically Modern Humans, Maritime Voyaging, and the Pleistocene Colonization of the Americas	p. 108
The Cross Creek Site and Its Implications for New World Colonization	p. 121
The Origins of Social Complexity	p. 137
Competitive and Cooperative Responses to Climatic Instability in Coastal Southern California	p. 138
Social Responses to Climate Change Among the Chumash Indians of South-Central California	p. 149
Men, Women, and Work	p. 161
The Possibilities of Men and Women: Gender and the California Milling Stone Horizon	p. 162
Pounding Acorn: Women's Production as Social and Economic Focus	p. 172
Vectors of Death: Tragedy Before European Settlement	p. 183
Serpent in Eden: Dispersal of Foreign Diseases into Pre-mission California	p. 184
The Fall of the Acorn Curtain	p. 203
The Future of California Prehistory	p. 204
References	p. 213
List of Contributors	p. 260
Index	p. 261
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