Forty years ago, Knut Fladmark (1979) argued that the Pacific Coast offered a viable
alternative to the ice-free corridor model for the initial peopling of the Americas—one of the …

In the first issue of the Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology published 10 years ago,
Erlandson and Fitzpatrick (2006) outlined eight topics which demonstrated why island and …

Evidence for aquatic foraging, fishing, and scavenging by hominins dates back at least two
million years, but aquatic resource use intensified with the appearance of Homo sapiens …

The islands of Alta and Baja California have long been viewed as marginal habitats for early
humans that were settled relatively late compared to the adjacent mainland (eg, Landberg …

Using several methods to distinguish dart and arrow points, archaeologists have suggested
that the bow and arrow appeared in various parts of the world between˜ 65,000 and 1,000 …

ABSTRACT California's Northern Channel Islands contain an incredible record of terminal
Pleistocene and Early Holocene human occupation. Since the hunter-gatherer-fishers who …

To evaluate coastal settlement and land use strategies among maritime hunter-gatherers,
we analyzed oxygen isotope (δ 18 O) data from 131 marine carbonate samples from 21 …

Archaeobotanical remains recovered from a large∼ 8000-year-old-shell midden (CA-SRI-
666) on Santa Rosa Island provide the first ancient plant data from this large island …

California's Northern Channel Islands have produced several Paleocoastal assemblages
that include some of the most intricate and finely crafted lithic technologies in the Americas …

As applications for offshore renewable energy projects increase, state and federal land
managers have become concerned over potential impacts to cultural heritage resources …