Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology

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Product details:

• ISBN 10: 1315431637
• ISBN 13: 9781315431635 
• Author: Terry L. Jones, Jennifer E. Perry 

Recent archaeological research on California includes a greater diversity of models and approaches to the region’s past, as older literature on the subject struggles to stay relevant. This comprehensive volume offers an in-depth look at the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in the field including key controversies relevant to the Golden State: coastal colonization, impacts of comets and drought cycles, systems of power, Polynesian contacts, and the role of indigenous peoples in the research process, among others. With a specific emphasis on those aspects of California’s past that resonate with the state’s modern cultural identity, the editors and contributors—all leading figures in California archaeology—seek a new understanding of the myth and mystique of the Golden State.

Table contents:

Part I: Origins, Environment, and Ecology

1. The Archaeology of a Goodly Ilande
2. A Land by the Sea: An Ocean View of California Archaeology
3. A Land Impacted? The Younger Dryas Boundary Event in California
4. A Land of Diversity: Genetic Insights into Ancestral Origins
5. A Land of Many people: population Dynamics as Context and Catalyst
6. A Land of Many Seasons: Bioarchaeology and the Medieval Climatic Anomaly Hypothesis in Central California
7. A Land of Work: Foraging Behavior and ecology
8. A Land of Prestige
9. A Land of Fire: Anthropogenic Burning on the Central Coast of California

Part II: Social Dimensions of the Past

10. A Land of Power: The Materiality of Wealth, Knowledge, Authority, and the Supernatural
11. A Land of Violence
12. A Land Visited: Reviewing the Case for polynesian Contact in Southern California
13. A Land of Style: A Quantitative and Cultural Transmission Approach to Understanding Coso Rock Art
14. A Land of Vision and Dreams
15. A Land of Boundaries and Networks
16. A Land of Many Genders
17. A Land of Ethnogenesis: Material Culture, power, and Identity
18. A Land of Cultural pluralism: Case Studies from California’s Colonial Frontier
19. A Land of Inequality: Structure, Agency, and the Archaeology of African Americans
20. A Land of Many Archaeologists: Archaeology with Native Californians
21. Conclusion: A Land of Many Perspectives

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