Craft Specialization in the Prehistoric Channel Islands, California (UC Publications in Anthropology)

Craft Specialization in the Prehistoric Channel Islands, California (UC Publications in Anthropology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Arnold, Jeanne E.

Anthropology

University of California Press

When Europeans first visited California, they encountered one of the most culturally diverse regions of the New World. The coasts and ecologically richest areas were dotted with small polities which were supported not by horticulture but exclusively by hunting, fishing, and gathering, placing them among the more complex hunter-gatherer groups in the world.The Origins of a Pacific Coast Chiefdom considers the Chumash, perhaps the most hierarchically organized of the California groups. It explores the final thousand years of coastal Chumash culture, which culminated in the complex society witnessed by the earliest Spanish explorers.Chumash life was characterized by settled villages, massive production of prestige goods, sophisticated plank canoes, and extensive maritime exchange systems—features more characteristic of agricultural societies. Archaeological sites in the island Chumash area are exceptionally well preserved, permitting precise interpretations of both subtle and major changes in technologies, subsistence, prestige goods, and specialized shell and lithic industries. The data and interpretations presented here are the result of fifteen years of intensive investigation on the Channel Islands.

Origins Of A Pacific Coast Chiefdom (Anthropology of Pacific North America)

History

Americas

University of Utah Press

California's Ancient Past : From the Pacific to the Range of Light. Paperback edition.

California’s Ancient Past: From Pacific to the Range of Light (SAA Current Perspectives)

Walsh, Michael R.

Social Sciences

Society for American Archaeology

Winner of the 2014 John Collier Jr. Award 
Winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize
Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of important books on social history, consumerism, contemporary culture, the meaning of material culture, domestic architecture, and household ethnoarchaeology. It is a distant cousin of Material World and Hungry Planet in content and style, but represents a blend of rigorous science and photography that these books can claim. Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, this volume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class American home through the kaleidoscopic lens of no-limits photography and many kinds of never-before acquired data about how people actually live their lives at home.
Based on a rigorous, nine-year project at UCLA, this book has appeal not only to scientists but also to all people who share intense curiosity about what goes on at home in their neighborhoods. Many who read the book will see their own lives mirrored in these pages and can reflect on how other people cope with their mountains of possessions and other daily challenges. Readers abroad will be equally fascinated by the contrasts between their own kinds of materialism and the typical American experience. The book will interest a range of designers, builders, and architects as well as scholars and students who research various facets of U.S. and global consumerism, cultural history, and economic history.

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors

Arts & Photography

Ochs, Elinor

Graesch, Anthony P.

Ragazzini, Enzo

Photography & Video

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

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