Hunter-Gatherers of Early Holocene Coastal California


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Series: Perspectives in California Archaeology 1

Publication Date: Jul 1991
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Jon M. Erlandson and Roger H. Colten

This volume is the first to bring together a number of studies on the Early Holocene of the California coast (ca. 10,000 to 6600 BP). Erlandson and Colten haveassembled contributions that may be of interest to a broad spectrum of scholars whose research pertains to any of the following: early sites in the Americas, coastal adaptations,hunter-gatherer adaptations, general Pacific coast prehistory, and the specific history of research on pre-6600 BP occupations of coastal California.
Table of Contents

Chapter 1. An Archaeological Context for Early Holocene Studies on the California Coast by Jon M . Erlandson and Roger H. Colten

Chapter 2. Early Holocene Environments and Paleoecological Contexts on the Central and Southern California Coast by Larry A. Carbone

Chapter 3. Antiquity  and Adaptation at Agua Hedionda, Carlsbad, California by Dennis Gallegos

Chapter 4. Early Holocene Adaptations and the Transition Phase Problem: Evidence from the Allan 0. Kelly Site, Agua Hedionda Lagoon by Henry C. Koerper, Paul E. Langenwalter II, and Adela Schroth

Chapter 5. Early Holocene Maritime Adaptation at Eel Point, San Clemene Island by Roy A. Salls

Chapter 6. Fishing During the Millingstone Horizon? New Data from the Glen Annie Canyon Site, Santa Barbara County by Roger H. Colten               

Chapter 7. Shellfish and Seeds as Optimal Resources: Early Holocene Subsistence on the Santa Barbara by Coast by Jon M. Erlandson 

Chapter 8. Early Maritime Adaptations on the Northern Channel Islands by Jon M. Erlandson

Chapter 9. Early Holocene Adaptations on Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County by Michael A. Glassow

Chapter 10. Early Holocene Occupation of the Central California Coast by Gary S. Breschini and Trudy Haversat 

Chapter 11. Perspectives on Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast by Roger H. Colten and Jon M. Erlandson