Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California CoastBased on detailed excavation data, the author reconstructs the paleography of the Santa Barbara coast ca. 8500 years ago, makes comparisons to other early California sites, and applies his findings to current theories of hunter-gatherers and coastal environments. With an emphasis on paleographic reconstructions, site formation processes, chronological studies, and integrated faunal analyses, the work will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in shell middens, hunter-gatherer ecology, geoarchaeology, and coatal or aquatic adaptations. |
Contents
Goals Assumptions and Limitations | 17 |
Paleoenvironment | 30 |
Culture History | 37 |
Chronological Schemes for the California Coast | 50 |
Chapter 5 Investigations at SBA1807 | 65 |
Chronological Indicators | 73 |
Shell and Bone Artifacts | 91 |
Dietary Reconstruction | 111 |
Dietary Reconstruction | 157 |
Other Early Sites of the Western Santa Barbara Coast | 167 |
Early Sites of the Eastern Santa Barbara Coast | 177 |
Summary | 198 |
The Southern Channel Islands | 213 |
The Los Angeles County Coast | 222 |
The Central California Coast | 229 |
The Northern California Coast | 246 |
Chapter 6 Investigations at SBA2061 | 117 |
Chronological Indicators | 123 |
The Faunal Remains | 129 |
Dietary Reconstruction | 135 |
Chapter 7 Investigations at SBA2057 | 143 |
The Faunal Remains | 151 |
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14C dates abundant adaptations appear archaeological beads bifaces Breschini burials cal BP California coast Canyon central midden area charcoal charmstone chert Chione chipped stone Chumash clam cobble component context core hammers Coso Volcanic Field cultural debitage debris density deposits dietary reconstructions early coastal early Holocene early sites Erlandson estuarine evidence excavated faunal remains fish bone Glassow habitats hammerstones hunter-gatherers identified Koerper land mammals located locus mammal bone manos marine resources meat metates midden constituents midden samples Monterey chert mussel Mytilus obsidian occupation Olivella plant foods Pleistocene prehistoric projectile points protein radiocarbon radiocarbon dates recovered relatively retouched rodent RYBP San Dieguito Sanguinolaria Santa Barbara Channel Santa Barbara coast Santa Rosa Island Saxidomus sea cliff sea level sea mammals sediments settlement shell midden shellfish soil stone artifacts stone tools stratigraphic subsistence suggests surface surfperch Table taxa terrestrial test units uncorrected undiff