Before the wilderness
Subtitle: environmental management by native Californians
By: compiled and edited by Thomas C. Blackburn and Kat Anderson.
Contributors: Blackburn, Thomas C.; Anderson, Kat, 1955-
Series: BPAP -- no. 40.; Ballena Press anthropological papers -- no. 40.
Publisher: Ballena Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Menlo Park, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780879191269; 9780879191276
Subjects: Indians of North America -- California -- Economic conditions; Human ecology -- California; Environmental management -- California; Indians of North America -- Agriculture -- California
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-464) and index.
Table of contents: title: Some explanations for the rise of cultural complexity in native California with comments on proto-agriculture and agriculture / by Lowell J. Bean and Harry W. Lawton; title: Patterns of Indian burning in California / by Henry T. Lewis; title: Vegetation burning by the Chumash / by Jan Timbrook, John R. Johnson, and David D. Earle; title: Native Californians as ancient and contemporary cultivators / by Kat Anderson; title: "The basket is in the roots, that's where it begins" / by David W. Peri and Scott M. Patterson; title: Contemporary California indian basketweavers and the environment / by Bev Ortiz; title: Managing oaks and the acorn crop / by Helen McCarthy; title: Quality food / by Glenn Farris; title: Bow staves harvested from Juniper trees by indians of Nevada / Philip J. Wilke; title: Fuel use and resource management / by Chester King; title: Ritual management of Salmonid fish resources in California / by Sean L. Swezey and Robert F. Heizer; title: Agriculture among the Paiute of Owens Valley; title: Kumeyaay plant husbandry / by Florence Shipek.