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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