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The Island Chumash: Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society

by Douglas J. Kennett
The Island Chumash: Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society

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ISBN13: 9780520243026
ISBN10: 0520243021



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Colonized as early as 13,500 years ago, the Northern Channel Islands of California offer some of the earliest evidence of human habitation along the west coast of North America. The Chumash people who lived on these islands are considered to be among the most socially and politically complex hunter-gatherers in the world. This book provides a powerful and innovative synthesis of the cultural and environmental history of the chain of islands. Douglas J. Kennett shows that the trends in cultural elaboration were, in part, set into motion by a series of dramatic environmental events that were the catalyst for the unprecedented social and political complexity observed historically.

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"The most important study to come out of the Chumash area, and one of the best examples of research on culture change in contemporary archaeology."and#151;L. Mark Raab, coeditor of Prehistoric California

"A contribution that is remarkable in its scope, quality, and importance."and#151;Terry L. Jones, coeditor of Catalysts to Complexity

"The most comprehensive effort yet made to apply the theoretical framework of behavioral ecology to a problem in human prehistory. The result is not only an excellent demonstration of the power of the approach but a major contribution to the pre-European history of California."and#151;James O'Connell, University of Utah


About the Author

Douglas J. Kennett is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

Study Area, Climate Change and Emergent Cultural Complexity, Note on Chronology

CHAPTER 2

Human Behavioral Ecology and Maritime Societies

Maritime Foraging Strategies, Diet Choice in Maritime Settings, Return Rates for Marine Resources, Central Place Foraging and Maritime Foragers, Intensification and the Ideal Free Distribution, Competition and the Formation of Social Hierarchies in Coastal Settings, Summary

CHAPTER 3

Environmental Context

General Physiography, Geology, Climate, Hydrology, Terrestrial Resources-Spatial Distribution, Marine Resources-Spatial Distribution, Seasonal Variability, Short-Term Climatic Variability, Paleoenvironment, Sea-level, Marine Climate History, Terrestrial Climate History, Summary

CHAPTER 4

Cultural Context

The Ethnohistoric Record, Chumash Population Levels, Subsistence, Settlement, Sexual Division of Labor, Sociopolitical Organization, Exchange and Specialization, Warfare and Territoriality, Ethnohistoric Summary, The Prehistoric Record, Chronology, Cultural Overview, Development of Sociopolitical Complexity, Punctuated Cultural Development, Prehistoric Summary

CHAPTER 5

Historic Island Communities

Historic Island Villages, Santa Cruz Island, Santa Rosa Island, San Miguel Island, Geographic Analysis, Viewshed Analysis, Rank-Size Analysis,Summary

CHAPTER 6

Terminal Pleistocene to Middle Holocene Records

Terminal Pleistocene Record, Early Holocene Record, Middle Holocene Record

CHAPTER 7

Late Holocene

Population Growth and Demographic Expansion, Territoriality and Warfare, Economic Intensificaton, Increases in Trade and Exchange, Emergent Sociopolitical Complexity

CHAPTER 8

Synthesis

Diet Breadth

Central Place Foraging, Intensification and the Ideal Free Distribution, Competition and the Formation of Social Hierarchies

References

Index


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Product Details

ISBN:
9780520243026
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
04/04/2005
Publisher:
University of California Press
Language:
English
Pages:
298
Height:
.99IN
Width:
6.60IN
LCCN:
2004006985
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2005
Series Volume:
no. 32/2002
UPC Code:
2800520243028
Author:
Douglas J. Kennett
Author:
Douglas J Kennett
Subject:
Chumash Indians
Subject:
World History-General
Subject:
Indians of north america
Subject:
Indians of North America -- California.

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