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California Prehistory
Colonization, Culture, and Complexity
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About this book
Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory undertaken in the past 20 years. An essential resource for any scholar of California prehistory and archaeology!
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Table of contents
- California Prehistory
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Archaeological Progress since 1984
- Late Pleistocene and Holocene Environments
- Postglacial Evolution of Coastal Environments
- One If by Land, Two If by Sea: Who Were the First Californians?
- Colonization Technologies: Fluted Projectile Points and the San Clemente Island Woodworking/Microblade Complex
- Linguistic Prehistory
- Northwest California: Ancient Lifeways among Forested Mountains, Flowing Rivers, and Rocky Ocean Shores
- Punctuated Culture Change in the San Francisco Bay Area
- The Central Coast: A Midlatitude Milieu
- The Central Valley: A View from the Catbird’s Seat
- Models Made of Glass: A Prehistory of Northeast California
- The Sierra Nevada: Archaeology in the Range of Light
- Prehistory of the Northern California Bight and the Adjacent Transverse Ranges
- Prehistory of the Southern Bight: Models for a New Millennium
- Advances in Understanding Mojave Desert Prehistory
- The Colorado Desert: Ancient Adaptations to Wetlands and Wastelands
- Prehistoric Material Conveyance
- Rock Art in the Golden State: Pictographs and Petroglyphs, Portable and Panoramic
- Prehistoric Mitochondrial DNA and Population Movements
- Colonization, Culture, and Complexity
- About the Editors and Contributors