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Before the wilderness : environmental management by native Californians / compiled and edited by Thomas C. Blackburn and Kat Anderson.
- Title
- Before the wilderness : environmental management by native Californians / compiled and edited by Thomas C. Blackburn and Kat Anderson.
- Publication
- Menlo Park, CA : Ballena Press, c1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | L.SOC. 120.Cf. 11.2 (40) | Off-site |
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- Description
- 476 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- BPAP ; no. 40
- Uniform Title
- Ballena Press anthropological papers ; no. 40.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-464) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Managing the domesticated environment / Thomas Blackburn and Kat Anderson -- Some explanations for the rise of cultural complexity in native California with comments on proto-agriculture and agriculture / Lowell J. Bean and Harry W. Lawton -- Patterns of Indian burning in California : ecology and ethnohistory / Henry T. Lewis -- Vegetation burning by the Chumash / Jan Timbrook, John R. Johnson, and David D. Earle -- Native Californians as ancient and contemporary cultivators / Kat Anderson -- 'The basket is in the roots, that's where it begins' / David W. Peri and Scott M. Patterson -- Contemporary California Indian basketweavers and the environment / Bev Ortiz -- Managing oaks and the acorn crop / Helen McCarthy -- Quality food : the quest for pine nuts in northern California / Glenn Farris -- Bow staves harvested from juniper trees by Indians of Nevada / Philip J. Wilke -- Fuel use and resource management : implications for the study of land management in prehistoric California and recommendations for a research program / Chester King -- Ritual management of Salmonid fish resources in California / Sean L. Swezey and Robert F. Heizer -- Agriculture among the Paiute of Owens Valley / Harry W. Lawton ... [et al.] -- Kumeyaay plant husbandry : fire, water, and erosion control systems / Florence Shipek -- In retrospect / Henry T. Lewis.
- ISBN
- 0879191279 :
- 9780879191276
- 0879191260 (pbk.) :
- LCCN
- ^^^93006936^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library