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Prehistoric California : archaeology and the myth of paradise / edited by L. Mark Raab and Terry L. Jones.

Title
Prehistoric California : archaeology and the myth of paradise / edited by L. Mark Raab and Terry L. Jones.
Publication
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Raab, L. Mark
  • Jones, Terry L.
Description
vi, 266 p. : ill., maps; 29 cm.
Series Statement
The anthropology of Pacific North America
Uniform Title
Anthropology of Pacific North America.
Subject
  • Paleo-Indians > California
  • Hunting and gathering societies > California
  • Paleoecology > California
  • Acorns as food > California > History
  • California > Antiquities
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-259) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Environmental imperatives reconsidered: demographic crises in western North America during the medieval climatic anomaly / Terry L. Jones [and others] -- Declines in mammalian foraging efficiency during the late Holocene, San Francisco Bay / Jack M. Broughton -- Evolution of marine mammal hunting: a view form the California and Oregon coasts / William R. Hildebrandt and Terry L. Jones -- Trans-Holocene marine mammal exploitation on San Clemente Island: a tragedy of the commons revisited / Judith F. Porcasi, Terry L. Jones, and L. Mark Raab -- Resource intensification among hunter-gatherers: acorn economies in prehistoric California / Mark E. Basgall -- Health in prehistoric populations of the Santa Barbara Channel Islands / Patricia M. Lambert -- Anatomically modern humans, maritime voyaging, and the Pleistocene colonization of the Americas / Jon M. Erlandson -- The cross creek site and its implications for new world colonization / Terry L. Jones [and others] -- Competitive and cooperative responses to climatic instability in coastal Southern California / Douglas J. Kennett and James P. Kennett -- Social responses to climate change among the Chumash Indians of south-central California / John R. Johnson -- The possibilities of men and women: gender and the California milling stone horizon / Kelly R. McGuire and William R. Hildebrandt -- Pounding acorn: women's production as social and economic focus / Thomas L. Jackson -- Serpent in Eden: dispersal of foreign diseases into pre-mission California / William Peterson -- The future of California prehistory / L. Mark Raab and Terry L. Jones.
ISBN
  • 0874807840 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0874807859 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2003025629
OCLC
53824085
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Harvard Library