Resource Depression and Intensification During the Late Holocene, San Francisco Bay
Subtitle: Evidence from the Emeryville Shellmound Vertebrate Fauna (Anthropological Records)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780520098282
Subjects: Anthropology; North American archaeology; Paleontology; Excavations (Archaeology); Social Science; Native American Archaeology; Zooarchaeology; Science; History: American; California; Fish remains (Archaeology); Archaeology; Science / Biology; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Antiquities; Emeryville; Emeryville Site (Calif.); Indians of North America
First sentence: The superabundance of large game in central California during the early historic period literally "taxed the descriptive powers" of the early explorers (McCullough 1969:15).