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Applied Zooarchaeology

Five Case Studies

By: Lisa Nagaoka,Torben C. Rick,Steven J. Wolverton

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Applied Zooarchaeology

Five Case Studies

By: Lisa Nagaoka,Torben C. Rick,Steven J. Wolverton

During the last two decades, zooarchaeologists have increasingly focused aspects of their work on conservation biology. Zooarchaeological data represent an empirical record of past human-animal interactions, which provides conservation with a deep temporal perspective. There are many challenges that face the archaeologist as conservation biologist, however, that have little to do with deep time, faunal remains, and zooarchaeological method and theory. In this book we use a series of case studies with which each of the authors has relevant personal experience to explore the types of interdisciplinary challenges that zooarchaeologists face when crossing into the world of environmental management and animal conservation. Never has there been a greater need for multi-vocal perspectives in conservation biology. This book shows zooarchaeologists how to use zooarchaeological perspectives to help meet those needs, while crossing traditional academic disciplinary boundaries.

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Eliot Werner Publications

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1733376968

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9781733376969

Islands through Time

A Human and Ecological History of California's Northern Channel Islands

By: Todd J. Braje,Jon M. Erlandson,Torben C. Rick

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Islands through Time

A Human and Ecological History of California's Northern Channel Islands

By: Todd J. Braje,Jon M. Erlandson,Torben C. Rick

Explore the remarkable history of one of the jewels of the US National Park system California’s Northern Channel Islands, sometimes called the American Galápagos and one of the jewels of the US National Park system, are a located between 20 and 44 km off the southern California mainland coast. Celebrated as a trip back in time where tourists can capture glimpses of California prior to modern development, the islands are often portrayed as frozen moments in history where ecosystems developed in virtual isolation for tens of thousands of years. This could not, however, be further from the truth. For at least 13,000 years, the Chumash and their ancestors occupied the Northern Channel Islands, leaving behind an archaeological record that is one of the longest and best preserved in the Americas. From ephemeral hunting and gathering camps to densely populated coastal villages and Euro-American and Chinese historical sites, archaeologists have studied the Channel Island environments and material culture records for over 100 years. They have pieced together a fascinating story of initial settlement by mobile hunter-gatherers to the development of one of the world’s most complex hunter-gatherer societies ever recorded, followed by the devastating effects of European contact and settlement. Likely arriving by boat along a “kelp highway,” Paleocoastal migrants found not four offshore islands, but a single super island, Santarosae. For millennia, the Chumash and their predecessors survived dramatic changes to their land- and seascapes, climatic fluctuations, and ever-evolving social and cultural systems. Islands Through Time is the remarkable story of the human and ecological history of California’s Northern Channel Islands. We weave the tale of how the Chumash and their ancestors shaped and were shaped by their island homes. Their story is one of adaptation to shifting land- and seascapes, growing populations, fluctuating subsistence resources, and the innovation of new technologies, subsistence strategies, and socio-political systems. Islands Through Time demonstrates that to truly understand and preserve the Channel Islands National Park today, archaeology and deep history are critically important. The lessons of history can act as a guide for building sustainable strategies into the future. The resilience of the Chumash and Channel Island ecosystems provides a story of hope for a world increasingly threatened by climate change, declining biodiversity, and geopolitical instability.

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217

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442278587

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9781442278585

The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island

By: Torben C. Rick

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The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island

By: Torben C. Rick

California's northern Channel Islands have one of the longest and best-preserved archaeological records in the Americas, spanning some 13,000 calendar years. When European explorers first travelled to the area, these islands were inhabited by the Chumash, some of the most populous and culturally complex hunter-gatherers known. Chumash society was characterised by hereditary leaders, sophisticated exchange networks and interaction spheres, and diverse maritime economies. Focusing on the archaeology of five sites dated to the last 3,000 years, this book examines the archaeology and historical ecology of San Miguel Island, the westernmost and most isolated of the northern Channel Islands. Detailed faunal, artefact, and other data are woven together in a diachronic analysis that investigates the interplay of social and ecological developments on this unique island. The first to focus solely on San Miguel Island archaeology, this book examines issues ranging from coastal adaptations to emergent cultural complexity to historical ecology and human impacts on ancient environments.

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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

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1938770315

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A Canyon Through Time

Archaeology, History, and Ecology of the Tecolote Canyon Area, Santa Barbara County, California

By: Jon M Erlandson,Torben C Rick,Rene L Vellanoweth

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A Canyon Through Time

Archaeology, History, and Ecology of the Tecolote Canyon Area, Santa Barbara County, California

By: Jon M Erlandson,Torben C Rick,Rene L Vellanoweth

A summary of the deep history of Tecolote Canyon, a beautiful area of California's Santa Barbara coast that has been occupied by humans for at least 9000 years, using data from archaeology, ecology, geology, and geography.

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University of Utah Press

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0874808790

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9780874808797

The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island

By: Torben C. Rick

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Book's by Torben C. Rick

Applied Zooarchaeology

Applied Zooarchaeology

Islands through Time

Islands through Time

The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island

The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island

A Canyon Through Time

A Canyon Through Time

The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island

The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island

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