The island Chumash : behavioral ecology of a maritime society / Douglas J. Kennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennett, Douglas J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chumash Indians.

Indians of North America--California.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

1. The Island Chumash

2. Human Behavioral Ecology and Maritime Societies

3. Environmental Context

4. Cultural Context

5. Historic Island Communities

6. Terminal Pleistocene to Middle Holocene Records

7. Late Holocene Record

8. Synthesis

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520931435

0520931432

9781597349406

1597349402

OCLC:

70773871