California prehistory
Subtitle: colonization, culture, and complexity
By: edited by Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar
Contributors: Society for California Archaeology
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780759113749; 9780759119604
Subjects: State & Local; Indians of North America; Antiquities; General; Congresses; Paleo-Indians; Excavations (Archaeology); HISTORY
Description: 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!
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-380) and indexes.

Print version record.
Table of contents: title: Archaeological progress since 1984  -- Michael J. Moratto and Joseph L. Chartkoff; title: Late Pleistocene and Holocene environments  -- G. James West, Wallace Woolfenden, James A. Wanket, and R. Scott Anderson; title: Postglacial evolution of coastal environments  -- Patricia M. Masters and Ivano W. Aiello; title: One if by land, two if by sea : who were the first Californians?  -- Jon M. Erlandson, Torben C. Rick, Terry L. Jones, and Judith F. Porcasi; title: Colonization technologies : fluted projectile points and the San Clemente Island woodworking/microblade complex  -- Michael F. Rondeau, Jim Cassidy, and Terry L. Jones; title: Linguistic prehistory  -- Victor Golla; title: Northwest California : ancient lifeways among forested mountains, flowing rivers, and rocky Pacific shores  -- William R. Hildebrandt; title: Punctuated culture change in the San Francisco Bay Area  -- Randall Milliken, Richard T. Fitzgerald, Mark G. Hylkema, Randy Groza, Tom Origer, David G. Bieling, Alan Leventhal, Randy S. Wiberg, Andrew Gottsfield, Donna Gillette, Viviana Bellifemine, Eric Strother, Robert Cartier, and David A. Fredrickson; title: The central coast : a midlatitude milieu  -- Terry L. Jones, Nathan E. Stevens, Deborah A. Jones, Richard T. Fitzgerald, Mark G. Hylkema; title: The central valley : a view from the catbird's seat  -- Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Gregory G. White, and Mark Q. Sutton; title: Models made of glass : a prehistory of northeast California  -- Kelly R. McGuire; title: The Sierra Nevada : archaeology in the range of light  -- Kathleen L. Hull; title: Prehistory of the Northern California Bight and the adjacent transverse ranges  -- Michael A. Glassow, Lynn H. Gamble, Jennifer E. Perry, and Glenn S. Russell; title: Archaeology of the Southern Bight : models for a new millennium  -- Brian F. Byrd and L. Mark Raab; title: Advances in understanding Mojave Desert prehistory  -- Mark Q. Sutton, Mark E. Basgall, Jill K. Gardner, Mark W. Allen; title: The Colorado Desert : ancient adaptations to wetlands and wastelands  -- Jerry Schaefer and Don Laylander; title: Prehistoric material conveyance  -- Richard E. Hughes and Randall Milliken; title: Rock art in the Golden State : pictographs and petroglyphs, portable and panoramic  -- Amy J. Gilreath; title: Prehistoric mitochondrial DNA and population movements  -- Jason A. Eshleman and David Glenn Smith; title: Colonization, culture, and complexity -- Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar.