Bøger i Perspectives in California Archaeology serien

Highlights research on the foundations of sociopolitical complexity in coastal California. The Chumash are increasingly recognized as complex hunter-gatherers with strong characteristics: leadership, a strong maritime economy based on oceangoing canoes, an integrative ceremonial system, and highly specialized craft production activities.

Contributors to this volume demonstrate how faunal remains can be used to elucidate subsistence, settlement, technological systems, economic exchange, social organization, adaptation to variability in resource distribution and abundance, and the impacts of historic land use.