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Title

Foundations of Chumash complexity / edited by Jeanne E. Arnold.

Publication

Los Angeles : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Arnold, Jeanne E.
• Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.
• Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (2002 : Denver, Colo.)
• Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (67th : 2002 : Denver, Colo.)

Description

xiii, 190 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Summary

"This volume highlights the latest research on the foundations of sociopolitical complexity in coastal California. The populous maritime societies of southern California, particularly the groups known collectively as the Chumash, have gone largely unrecognized as prototypical complex hunter-gatherers, only recently beginning to emerge from the shadow of their more celebrated counterparts on the Northwest Coast of North America. While Northwest cultures are renowned for such complex institutions a ceremonial potlatches, slavery, cedar plank-house villages, and rich artistic traditions, the Chumash are increasingly recognized as complex hunter-gatherers with a different set of organizational characteristics: ascribed chiefly leadership, a strong maritime economy based on oceangoing canoes, an integrative ceremonial system, and intensive and highly specialized craft production activities. Chumash sites provide some of the most robust data on these subjects available in the Americas."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Perspectives in California archaeology ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Perspectives in California archaeology ; v. 7.

Subject

• Channel Islands (Calif.) > Antiquities > Congresses
• Channel Islands (Calif.) > Antiquities
• Chumash Indians > Antiquities
• Chumash Indians > Antiquities > Congresses
• Chumash Indians > Material culture > Congresses
• Chumash Indians > Material culture
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Channel Islands > Congresses
• Hunting and gathering societies > Channel Islands > Congresses
• Hunting and gathering societies > Channel Islands
• Hunting and gathering societies > Pacific Coast > Congresses
• Hunting and gathering societies > Pacific Coast
• Pacific Coast (Calif.) > Antiquities > Congresses
• Pacific Coast (Calif.) > Antiquities

Note

• Papers presented at a symposium held in conjunction with the annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting in Denver in 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The later evolution of the island Chumash / Jeanne E. Arnold and Anthony P. Graesch -- Identifying complexity during the early prehistory of Santa Cruz Island, California / Michael A. Glassow -- Status and the swordfish : the origins of large-species fishing among the Chumash / Julienne Bernard -- The role of ritual specialization in the evolution of prehistoric Chumash complexity / Sandra E. Hollimon -- Chumash bone whistles : the development of ceremonial integration in Chumash society / Ray Corbett -- Cultural transmission processes and change in bead types on Santa Cruz Island, California / Scott Pletka --
• Social and economic dynamics on Late Holocene San Miguel Island, California / Torben C. Rick -- Quarries and microblades : trends in prehistoric land and resource use on eastern Santa Cruz Island / Jennifer E. Perry -- Specialized bead making among island Chumash households : community labor organization during the historic period / Anthony P. Graesch -- Complex hunter-gatherers of the southern California coast : a view from thousand miles north / Gary Coupland.

ISBN

1931745188 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004022947

OCLC

56617153

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Harvard Library