The origins of a Pacific Coast chiefdom
Subtitle: the Chumash of the Channel Islands
By: edited by Jeanne E. Arnold
Contributors: Arnold, Jeanne E
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Chumash Indians -- Antiquities; Chumash Indians -- Implements; Chumash beadwork; Stone implements -- California -- Channel Islands; Shell beads -- California -- Channel Islands; Excavations (Archaeology) -- California -- Channel Islands; Channel Islands (Calif.) -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-315)
Table of contents: title: The Chumash in world and regional perspectives / Jeanne E. Arnold; title: The Channel Islands Project : history, objectives, and methods / Jeanne E. Arnold; title: Ethnohistoric reflections of Cruzeño Chumash society / John R. Johnson; title: The evolution of specialized shellworking among the Island Chumash / Jeanne E. Arnold and Anthony P. Graesch; title: Flaked stone craft production and exchange in Island Chumash territory / Jeanne E. Arnold, Aimee M. Preziosi, and Paul Shattuck; title: Bifaces and the institutionalization of exchange relationships in the Chumash sphere / Scott Pletka; title: Standardization and specialization : the Island Chumash microdrill industry / Aimee M. Preziosi; title: Groundstone tools as indicators of changing subsistence and exchange patterns in the coastal Chumash region / Colleen Delaney-Rivera; title: Bone tool technology on Santa Cruz Island and implications for exchange / Thomas A. Wake; title: Ecological and economic analysis of faunal remains from Santa Cruz Island / Roger H. Colten; title: The economics of Island Chumash fishing practices / Scott Pletka; title: Paleoethnobotanical investigations of archaeological sites on Santa Cruz Island / Steve L. Martin and Virginia S. Popper; title: Culture contact on the Channel Islands : historic-era production and exchange systems / Anthony P. Graesch; title: Social evolution and the political economy in the northern Channel Islands / Jeanne E. Arnold