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Middle Holocene Hilltop And Ridgeline Settlement On The Northern Channel Islands Of California
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Book Synopsis Middle Holocene Hilltop and Ridgeline Settlement on the Northern Channel Islands of California by : Robert A. Clifford
Download or read book Middle Holocene Hilltop and Ridgeline Settlement on the Northern Channel Islands of California written by Robert A. Clifford and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis by : Michael Glassow
Download or read book Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis written by Michael Glassow and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the practice of archaeology benefit from faunal analysis? Michael Glassow and Terry Joslin's Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis: Insights from California Archaeology addresses this question. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how faunal remains can be used to elucidate subsistence, settlement, technological systems, economic exchange, social organization, adaptation to variability in resource distribution and abundance, and the impacts of historic land use. The sheer prevalence of faunal remains in California archaeological sites means that most archaeologists working in the state inevitably must give these resources their close attention-and yet methodological challenges remain. The chapters in this thoughtfully edited volume tackle these challenges, providing strategies for identifying and mitigating sample bias and recommending quantitative techniques borrowed from a variety of disciplines. The volume also presents examples that illustrate the use of faunal data to test hypotheses derived from microeconomic theory, the applicability of bone and shell chemistry to faunal analysis, and the relevance of faunal data to addressing issues in biology.
Book Synopsis A Dynamic Ecological Model for Human Settlement on California's Northern Channel Islands by : Christopher Jazwa
Download or read book A Dynamic Ecological Model for Human Settlement on California's Northern Channel Islands written by Christopher Jazwa and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settlement on California's Northern Channel Islands can be described using two behavioral ecology models, the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) and the Ideal Despotic Distribution (IDD). These models predict that (1) people will first establish permanent settlements in the regions ranked highest for environmental resources; (2) as population grows, people will settle progressively lower-ranked habitats; (3) resource depression should occur in the highest-ranked habitats prior to the occupation of lower-ranked habitats; and (4) under despotic conditions, residents of high-ranked habitats will force newcomers to less desirable locations to prevent resource depression. In this dissertation, I test these models using targeted survey, excavation, laboratory analysis, and radiocarbon dating of archaeological sites on Santa Rosa, the second largest of the Northern Channel Islands. On this island, the early permanent settlements (after ~8000 cal BP) were located in both high- and middle-ranked locations, with the most extensive settlement at the highest-ranked locations and only isolated sites elsewhere. Settlement at a low-ranked habitat is confined to the Late Holocene (after 3600 cal BP). Environmental change independent of human activities, including drought, influences the relative rank of different locations, adding a dynamic aspect to the model and potentially resulting in population movement. Furthermore, the despotic variant of the model (IDD) is prominent late in time as complexity and territoriality developed.This study expands on previous attempts to understand the environmental parameters for settlement on the Northern Channel Islands by modeling fresh water flow in the drainages on Santa Rosa Island. The hydrological model for Santa Rosa Island presented here incorporates geospatial and temporal data for climate (precipitation, solar radiation, wind speed, relative humidity, temperature), soils, vegetation, and topography to simulate the complex land-surface-groundwater behavior of island hydrology for hypothetical wet, dry, and median centuries. Drainages on the northwest and east coasts of the island have the largest runoff and are the most resilient to drought. This contributes to their high rank in the IFD/IDD models. This dissertation traces settlement patterns on Santa Rosa Island from the earliest available evidence for permanent settlement during the Middle Holocene (7550-3600 cal BP) through historic contact. The Middle Holocene was associated with increasing sedentism and an elaboration of diverse settlement and special purpose sites. A central place forager model describes the processing and transport costs of red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) and California mussel (Mytilus californianus), and how these costs influence archaeological assemblages at coastal and interior settlements. Permanent coastal sites were occupied year-round by larger populations and special purpose sites have faunal assemblages that reflect their distance from coastal shellfish beds. Starting around 1300 cal BP, there were important cultural changes associated with an increase in sociopolitical complexity. Permanent settlement condensed from a dispersed pattern to one that was nucleated at a small number of large coastal villages. The subsequent settlement pattern can be described using the IDD. Village residents prevented others from joining them, pushing the others to more marginal habitats than would be expected in the IFD. Fish was the primary food source at that time, so changes in the distribution of fish and other faunal species provide a useful tool to track these changes.
Book Synopsis Foundations of Chumash Complexity by : Jeanne E. Arnold
Download or read book Foundations of Chumash Complexity written by Jeanne E. Arnold and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 as 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. Contributors present stimulating new analyses of household and village organization, ceremonial specialists, craft specializations and settlement data, cultural transmission processes, bead manufacturing practices, watercraft, and the acquisition of prized marine species.
Book Synopsis Hunter-Gatherers of Early Holocene Coastal California by : Roger H. Colten
Download or read book Hunter-Gatherers of Early Holocene Coastal California written by Roger H. Colten and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 1991-12-31 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first to bring together a number of studies on the Early Holocene of the California coast (ca. 10,000 to 6600 BP). Erlandson and Colten haveassembled contributions that may be of interest to a broad spectrum of scholars whose research pertains to any of the following: early sites in the Americas, coastal adaptations, hunter-gatherer adaptations, general Pacific coast prehistory, and the specific history of research on pre-6600 BP occupations of coastal California.
Book Synopsis Contextualizing Late Holocene Subsistence Change on California’s Northern Channel Islands by :
Download or read book Contextualizing Late Holocene Subsistence Change on California’s Northern Channel Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex relationship between sociopolitical complexity, natural climatic change, and subsistence strategies on California’s Northern Channel Islands (NCI) has long been a topic of archaeological inquiry. One period of particular interest to NCI researchers is the Middle-to-Late Transition Period (MLT, 800-650 cal BP), during which Chumash hierarchical sociopolitical organization is thought to have solidified. Multiple models of sociopolitical change have been proposed, all of which acknowledge the relationship between rising populations, shifting dietary patterns, climatic events, and sociopolitical structure. Due to data gaps and the history of archaeological research on the Channel Islands, however, these models rely on dietary data from MLT and Late Period (650 cal BP to AD 1542) archaeological sites on Santa Cruz Island, but lack critical data from the Middle Period to contextualize subsistence shifts. Through my thesis research, I present and interpret dietary data from two well-dated Middle Period sites on Santa Cruz Island through a historical ecological framework to place dietary shifts in spatial and temporal context and to aid in a deeper understanding of Chumash lifeways during a very dynamic time on the NCI.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Sixth California Islands Symposium, Ventura, California, December 1-3, 2003 by : Dave Garcelon
Download or read book Proceedings of the Sixth California Islands Symposium, Ventura, California, December 1-3, 2003 written by Dave Garcelon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Archaeology on the Northern Channel Islands of California by : Brenda Bowser
Download or read book Archaeology on the Northern Channel Islands of California written by Brenda Bowser and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Voyages of Discovery by : Scott M. Fitzpatrick
Download or read book Voyages of Discovery written by Scott M. Fitzpatrick and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voyages of Discovery is the first major synthesis of island archaeological research worldwide. The work brings together experts in the field who are concerned with analyzing islands and island societies from a variety of different archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Major topics include interaction spheres, exchange, human impacts, and theoretical models. Over the past few decades there has been an increased interest in the archaeology of islands. Archaeological approaches to studying islands and island societies have often mirrored those of biologists because islands are relatively isolated, contain unique species or remnant populations, have an impoverished terrestrial ecology, provide opportunities to investigate the effects of animals (e.g., humans) on ecosystems, lend themselves to manipulative experiments, and have implications for helping us understand environmental and social changes on a global level from a microcosmic view. Although islands can be considered somewhat unique compared to mainland environments, environmental and cultural factors played important roles in how islands and islanders developed over time. The field of island archaeology contributes to understanding the fluid boundaries (both physical and mental) that existed for islanders prehistorically and how they adapted to their island world. This book explores a wide range of issues including the impacts humans have had on island ecosystems, the intentional movement of goods, resources, and animals across vast distances, and ways in which archaeologists analyze islands and island societies methodologically and theoretically.
Book Synopsis Archaeology of the California Coast During the Middle Holocene by : Jon Erlandson
Download or read book Archaeology of the California Coast During the Middle Holocene written by Jon Erlandson and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Paleocoastal Mobility Patterns by : Nicole D. Kulaga
Download or read book Paleocoastal Mobility Patterns written by Nicole D. Kulaga and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northern Channel Islands off the coast of southern California have played a pivotal role in understanding some of the earliest archaeology in North America, going back at least 13,000 years. The islands of Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel have likely the highest density of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene aged archaeological sites. While Paleocoastal archaeology has been the target of much research, there are still many aspects which have not been thoroughly explored, including settlement and mobility patterns of Paleocoastal peoples. This research examines this issue by conducting an intensive artifact analysis on arguably one of the most intensively excavated Paleocoastal sites, CA-SRI-997/H on Santa Rosa Island, and comparing the results to other contemporary Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene sites on the islands. The collected data will then be compared to well-known settlement and mobility hunter-gatherer models: the forager and collector models. The results of this research will be able to inform archaeologists about different aspects of one of the earliest cultures in North America, including site function, site organization, and settlement and mobility patterns.
Book Synopsis The Island Chumash by : Douglas J. Kennett
Download or read book The Island Chumash written by Douglas J. Kennett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonized as early as 13,500 years ago, the Northern Channel Islands of California offer some of the earliest evidence of human habitation along the west coast of North America. The Chumash people who lived on these islands are considered to be among the most socially and politically complex hunter-gatherers in the world. This book provides a powerful and innovative synthesis of the cultural and environmental history of the chain of islands. Douglas J. Kennett shows that the trends in cultural elaboration were, in part, set into motion by a series of dramatic environmental events that were the catalyst for the unprecedented social and political complexity observed historically.
Book Synopsis Towns, Ecology, and the Land by : Richard T. T. Forman
Download or read book Towns, Ecology, and the Land written by Richard T. T. Forman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering book highlighting the dynamic environmental dimensions of towns and villages and spatial connections with surrounding land.
Book Synopsis Dolmens in the Levant by : James A. Fraser
Download or read book Dolmens in the Levant written by James A. Fraser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Western explorers first encountered dolmens in the Levant, they thought they had discovered the origins of a megalithic phenomenon that spread as far as the Atlantic coast. Although European dolmens are now considered an unrelated tradition, many researchers continue to approach dolmens in the Levant as part of a trans-regional phenomenon that spanned the Taurus mountains to the Arabian peninsula. By tightly defining the term 'dolmen' itself, this book brings these mysterious monuments into sharper focus. Drawing on historical, archaeological and geological sources, it is shown that dolmens in the Levant mostly concentrate in the eastern escarpment of the Jordan Rift Valley, and in the Galilean hills. They cluster near proto-urban settlements of the Early Bronze I period (3700–3000 BCE) in particular geological zones suitable for the extraction of megalithic slabs. Rather than approaching dolmens as a regional phenomenon, this book considers dolmens as part of a local burial tradition whose tomb forms varied depending on geological constraints. Dolmens in the Levant is essential for anyone interested in the rise of civilisations in the ancient Middle East, and particularly those who have wondered at the origins of these enigmatic burial monuments that dominate the landscape.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Archaeology by : Brian Murray Fagan
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Archaeology written by Brian Murray Fagan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Designing Greenways by : Paul Cawood Hellmund
Download or read book Designing Greenways written by Paul Cawood Hellmund and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are greenways designed? What situations lead to their genesis, and what examples best illustrate their potential for enhancing communities and the environment? Designing greenways is a key to protecting landscapes, allowing wildlife to move freely, and finding appropriate ways to bring people into nature. This book brings together examples from ecology, conservation biology, aquatic ecology, and recreation design to illustrate how greenways function and add value to ecosystems and human communities alike. Encompassing everything from urban trail corridors to river floodplains to wilderness-like linkages, greenways preserve or improve the integrity of the landscape, not only by stemming the loss of natural features, but also by engendering new natural and social functions. From 19th-century parks and parkways to projects still on the drawing boards, Designing Greenways is a fascinating introduction to the possibilities-and pitfalls-involved in these ambitious projects. As towns and cities look to greenways as a new way of reconciling man and nature, designers and planners will look to Designing Greenways as an invaluable compendium of best practices.
Book Synopsis Architecture in the Anthropocene by : Etienne Turpin
Download or read book Architecture in the Anthropocene written by Etienne Turpin and published by Anexact. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Research regarding the significance and consequence of anthropogenic transformations of the earth's land, oceans, biosphere and climate have demonstrated that, from a wide variety of perspectives, it is very likely that humans have initiated a new geological epoch, their own. First labeled the Anthropocene by the chemist Paul Crutzen, the consideration of the merits of the Anthropocene thesis by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences has also garnered the attention of philosophers, historians, and legal scholars, as well as an increasing number of researchers from a range of scientific backgrounds. Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy intensifies the potential of this multidisciplinary discourse by bringing together essays, conversations, and design proposals that respond to the "geological imperative" for contemporary architecture scholarship and practice. Contributors include Nabil Ahmed, Meghan Archer, Adam Bobbette, Emily Cheng, Heather Davis, Sara Dean, Seth Denizen, Mark Dorrian, Elizabeth Grosz, Lisa Hirmer, Jane Hutton, Eleanor Kaufman, Amy Catania Kulper, Clinton Langevin, Michael C.C. Lin, Amy Norris, John Palmesino, Chester Rennie, François Roche, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Isabelle Stengers, Paulo Tavares, Etienne Turpin, Eyal Weizman, Jane Wolff, Guy Zimmerman."--Publisher's description.
