California maritime archaeology : a San Clemente Island perspective / L. Mark Raab ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raab, L. Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--California--San Clemente Island.

Indians of North America.

Coastal archaeology--California--San Clemente Island.

Coastal archaeology.

Maritime anthropology--California--San Clemente Island.

Maritime anthropology.

Excavations (Archaeology)--California--San Clemente Island.

Excavations (Archaeology).

San Clemente Island (Calif.)--Antiquities.

San Clemente Island (Calif.).

California--San Clemente Island.

Physical Description:

xix, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : AltaMira Press, [2009]

Summary:

San Clemente Island is a microcosm of California coastal archaeology from prehistoric through historic times-not only because of the extensiveness of its archaeological remains but because those remains have been so well preserved. In California Maritime Archaeology, the authors use the island as a platform to explore evidence of early seafaring, colonization, paleoenvironmental change, and cultural interaction along the California coast. They make a strong case that San Clemente Island should be seen as a kind of "California archaeological Galapagos," offering an extraordinary variety of ancient life as well as surprising information about prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the northern Pacific.

Contents:

California Galapagos / L. Mark Raab and Andrew Yatsko

San Clemente Island / Andrew Yatsko and L. Mark Raab

San Clemente Island archaeology and the Island Gabrielino / L. Mark Raab

The ancient mariners of Eel Point / L. Mark Raab and Jim Cassidy

The dolphin hunters / L. Mark Raab

This old house / L. Mark Raab

Beads and the Great Basin connection / L. Mark Raab and William J. Howard

Tragedy of the commons / L. Mark Raab

Medieval climatic crisis / Andrew Yatsko and L. Mark Raab

In the shadow of the chieftans / L. Mark Raab

Vectors of death and Native messiahs / L. Mark Raab

Perspectives from an island laboratory / L. Mark Raab ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780759113169

0759113165

OCLC:

311310037