California maritime archaeology a San Clemente Island perspective /

• Other Authors: Raab, L. Mark.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2009.
• Subjects: Indians of North America > California > San Clemente Island.; Coastal archaeology > California > San Clemente Island.; Maritime anthropology > California > San Clemente Island.; Excavations (Archaeology) > California > San Clemente Island.; HISTORY > General. > State & Local; San Clemente Island (Calif.) > Antiquities.; Electronic books.
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San Clemente Island is a microcosm of California coastal archaeology from prehistoric through historic times--not only because of the extensiveness of its archaeological remains but because those remains have been so well preserved. In California Maritime Archaeology, the authors use the island as a...

Table of Contents:

• California Galapagos / L. Mark Raab and Andrew Yatsko
• San Clemente Island / Andrew Yatsko and L. Mark Raab
• San Clemente Island archaeology and the Island Gabrielino / L. Mark Raab
• The ancient mariners of Eel Point / L. Mark Raab and Jim Cassidy
• The dolphin hunters / L. Mark Raab
• This old house / L. Mark Raab
• Beads and the Great Basin connection / L. Mark Raab and William J. Howard
• Tragedy of the commons / L. Mark Raab
• Medieval climatic crisis / Andrew Yatsko and L. Mark Raab
• In the shadow of the chieftans / L. Mark Raab
• Vectors of death and Native messiahs / L. Mark Raab
• Perspectives from an island laboratory / L. Mark Raab ... [et al.].