California Maritime Archaeology

L. Mark Raab is emeritus professor of anthropology, California State University, Northridge. He has written scores of scholarly articles and several books, including editing California Prehistory, Archaeology, and the Myth of Paradise with Terry L. Jones, pub. University of Utah Press 2004. Jim Cassidy is an environmental specialist with the United States Marine Corps. Andrew Yatsko is a staff archaeologist with the U.S. Navy. William Howard is a research associate at the Center for Public Archaeology at California State University, Northridge.

This important study offers new perspectives on maritime hunter-gatherers based on more than two decades of cutting-edge archaeological research on San Clemente Island in southern California. Synthesizing more than 9,000 years of history, Raab, Cassidy, Yatsko, and Howard address some of the big issues in hunter-gatherer studies today: early seafaring, the timing of residential stability, long-term human-environmental interactions, sociopolitical complexity, and colonial encounters. This provocative book will energize healthy debate about maritime societies in California for years to come.

• Chapter 1 ForewordPart 2 Part I. IntrodcutionChapter 3 Chapter 1. California GalapagosChapter 4 Chapter 2. San Clemente IslandChapter 5 Chapter 3. Coastal Prehistory and the Island GabrielinoPart 6 Part II. Early HoloceneChapter 7 Chapter 4. The Ancient Mariners of Eel PointChapter 8 Chapter 5. The Dolphin HuntersPart 9 Part III. Middle HoloceneChapter 10 Chapter 6. This Old HouseChapter 11 Chapter 7. Beads and the Great Basin ConnectionPart 12 Part IV. The Late HoloceneChapter 13 Chapter 8. Tragedy of the CommonsChapter 14 Chapter 9. Medieval Climatic CrisisChapter 15 Chapter 10. In the Shadow of ChiefdomsChapter 16 Chapter 11. Vectors of Death and Native MessiahsPart 17 Part V. Toward a New Paradigm of Maritime PrehistoryChapter 18 Chapter 12. Perspectives from an Island Laboratory