Prehistoric Man of the Santa Barbara Coast
Author | : D. B. Rogers |
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Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : D. B. Rogers |
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Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : David Banks Rogers |
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Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 1929 |
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ISBN | : 9781555678029 |
Author | : David Banks Rogers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : David Banks Rogers |
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Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Guy E. Gibbon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1020 |
Release | : 2022-01-26 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1136801790 |
First published in 1998. Did prehistoric humans walk to North America from Siberia? Who were the inhabitants of the spectacular Anasazi cliff dwellings in the Southwest and why did they disappear? Native Americans used acorns as a major food source, but how did they get rid of the tannic acid which is toxic to humans? How does radiocarbon dating work and how accurate is it? Written for the informed lay person, college-level student, and professional, Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia is an important resource for the study of the earliest North Americans; including facts, theories, descriptions, and speculations on the ancient nomads and hunter-gathers that populated continental North America.
Author | : Pedro Armillas |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226397382 |
"Estimates of man's antiquity in the Americas vary from about 12,000 to as much as 30,000 to 40,000 years. Clear evidence indicates that he lived in North America as early as 12,000 years ago as a hunter of mammoths and bison. The highest development of American Indian culture followed much later in the civilizations based on agriculture of Mesoamerica and northern South America. Learning the complete record of man's life in the New World has been one of the goals of archeology, and recent research has greatly increased our knowledge of this subject. But the vastness of the area and the variations in the quality and quantity of the data found in different parts of the country make American prehistory as unwieldy a subject as it is fascinating. Archeologists in this field long ago became specialists in restricted geographical areas, and it grows increasingly difficult to gain an over-all view. Geologists and linguists, too, have contributed through research in their disciplines to the literature of American prehistory. The volume performs a unique service for professional archeologists and lay readers alike in bringing together in straightforward, non-technical language the principal findings of the most recent research as well as the accumulated results of many years' study.." --
Author | : Geoff Bailey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1988-04-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521250368 |
The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines offers a conspectus of recent work on coastal archaeology examining the various ways in which hunter-gatherers and farmers across the world exploited marine resources such as fish, shellfish and waterfowl in prehistory. Changes in sea levels and the balance of marine ecosystems have altered coastal environments significantly over the last ten thousand years and the contributors assess the impact of these changes on the nature of human settlement and subsistence. An overview of coastal archaeology as a developing discipline is followed by ten case studies from a wide variety of places including Scandinavia, Japan, Tasmania and New Zealand, Peru, South Africa and the United States.
Author | : Jon M. Erlandson |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1475750420 |
Based on detailed excavation data, the author reconstructs the paleography of the Santa Barbara coast ca. 8500 years ago, makes comparisons to other early California sites, and applies his findings to current theories of hunter-gatherers and coastal environments. With an emphasis on paleographic reconstructions, site formation processes, chronological studies, and integrated faunal analyses, the work will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in shell middens, hunter-gatherer ecology, geoarchaeology, and coatal or aquatic adaptations.
Author | : Kristina M. Gill |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2019-01-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813057000 |
The islands of Alta and Baja California changed dramatically in the centuries after Spanish colonists arrived. Native populations were decimated by disease, and their lives were altered through forced assimilation and the cessation of traditional foraging practices. Overgrazing, overfishing, and the introduction of nonnative species depleted natural resources severely. Most scientists have assumed the islands were also relatively marginal for human habitation before European contact, but An Archaeology of Abundance reassesses this long-held belief, analyzing new lines of evidence suggesting that the California islands were rich in resources important to human populations. Contributors examine data from Paleocoastal to historic times that suggest the islands were optimal habitats that provided a variety of foods, fresh water, minerals, and fuels for the people living there. Botanical remains from these sites, together with the modern resurgence of plant communities after the removal of livestock, challenge theories that plant foods had to be imported for survival. Geoarchaeological surveys show that the islands had a variety of materials for making stone tools, and zooarchaeological data show that marine resources were abundant and that the translocation of plants and animals from the mainland further enhanced an already rich resource base. Studies of extensive exchange, underwater forests of edible seaweeds, and high island population densities also support the case for abundance on the islands. Concluding that the California islands were not marginal environments for early humans, the discoveries presented in this volume hold significant implications for reassessing the ancient history of islands around the world that have undergone similar ecological transformations. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson
Author | : Robert Fleming Heizer |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
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