Before California : an archaeologist looks at our earliest inhabitants /
A narrative account of aboriginal California prior to the arrival of Spanish explorers. Chronicling more than 13,000 years of human adaptation to the diverse and changing landscape, this book offers an introduction to bother the prehistory of California and the history of California archaeology, fro...
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Walnut Creek :
Altamira Press,
2004, c2003.
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| Edition: | 1st pbk. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- I: The archaeologist's tale
- 1. A stream of time (before 11,200 B.C. to A.D. 1542)
- II: Beginnings (before 11,200 to c. 2500 B.C.)
- 2. First footprints (before 11,200 B.C. to c. 9000 B.C.)
- 3. The first coastal settlement (c. 11,000 to 6500 B.C.)
- 4. The mainland: a world of milling stones (9500 to 2500 B.C.)
- 5. The dolphin hunters (c. 6500 to 2500 B.C.)
- III: The web of interconnectedness (c. 2500 to 1500 B.C.)
- 6. A changing world (c. 2500 to 1500 B.C.)
- 7. The seductive glass
- 8. The realm of the supernatural
- 9. Art on the rocks
- IV: A crowded world (c. 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1542)
- 10. The Northwest: dugouts and salmon
- 11. San Francisco Bay: a landscape of mounds
- 12. Central Valley and foothills: realm of the rivers
- 13. The south and southeast: coast, hinterland, and desert
- 14. Santa Barbara Channel: the world of the Tomol
- 15. Entrada.