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Recent archaeological research on California includes a greater diversity of models and approaches to the region's past, as older literature on the subject struggles to stay relevant. This comprehensive volume offers an in-depth look at the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in the field including key controversies relevant to the Golden State: coastal colonization, impacts of comets and drought cycles, systems of power, Polynesian contacts, and the role of indigenous peoples in the research process, among others. With a specific emphasis on those aspects of California's past that resonate with the state's modern cultural identity, the editors and contributors--all leading figures in California archaeology--seek a new understanding of the myth and mystique of the Golden State.
California's Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that
extend along the state's southern coastline from Santa Barbara's
Point Conception to the Mexican border. Popular tourist
destinations today, these islands once supported some of the
earliest human populations in the Americas; archaeological evidence
of maritime Paleo-Indian settlements on the northern islands dates
back some 13,000 years. The indigenous peoples of the islands--the
Chumash of the northern islands and the Tongva of the southern
islands--thrived into historic times by relying upon the abundance
and diversity of marine and terrestrial resources available to
them. "California's Channel Islands "presents a definitive
archaeological investigation of these unique islands and their
inhabitants, and is the first publication to discuss the islands
and their peoples holistically rather than individually or by
subgroup.
Recent archaeological research on California includes a greater diversity of models and approaches to the region's past, as older literature on the subject struggles to stay relevant. This comprehensive volume offers an in-depth look at the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in the field including key controversies relevant to the Golden State: coastal colonization, impacts of comets and drought cycles, systems of power, Polynesian contacts, and the role of indigenous peoples in the research process, among others. With a specific emphasis on those aspects of California's past that resonate with the state's modern cultural identity, the editors and contributors--all leading figures in California archaeology--seek a new understanding of the myth and mystique of the Golden State.
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