Life on the edge: early maritime cultures of the Pacific Coast of North America

JM Erlandson, ML Moss, M Des Lauriers - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
A variety of evidence suggests that the Americas may have been colonized, at least in part,
by maritime peoples moving around the North Pacific Rim near the end of the Pleistocene …

Wildfire and abrupt ecosystem disruption on California's Northern Channel Islands at the Ållerød–Younger Dryas boundary (13.0–12.9 ka)

DJ Kennett, JP Kennett, GJ West, JM Erlandson… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
Sedimentary records from California's Northern Channel Islands and the adjacent Santa
Barbara Basin (SBB) indicate intense regional biomass burning (wildfire) at the Ållerød …

[KNIHA][B] Across Atlantic ice: the origin of America's Clovis culture

DJ Stanford, BA Bradley - 2012 - books.google.com
Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story,
mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that …

Complex hunter–gatherers in evolution and history: a North American perspective

KE Sassaman - Journal of archaeological research, 2004 - Springer
A review of recent research on complex hunter–gatherers in North America suggests that
age-old tensions between evolutionary and historical epistemologies continue to cultivate …

[KNIHA][B] California Indians and their environment: an introduction

KG Lightfoot, O Parrish - 2009 - books.google.com
" Relevant, timely, and approachable, California Indians and Their Environment is an instant
classic that should be invaluable for anyone interested in California's diverse natural and …

The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor: a possible Palaeolithic route to the New World

B Bradley, D Stanford - World Archaeology, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
The early peopling of the New World has been a topic of intense research since the early
twentieth century. We contend that the exclusive focus of research on a Beringian entry point …

From Pleistocene mariners to complex hunter-gatherers: The archaeology of the California Channel Islands

TC Rick, JM Erlandson, RL Vellanoweth… - Journal of world …, 2005 - Springer
Abstract California's Channel Islands were home to some of the most distinctive Native
American peoples along the Pacific Coast. Never connected to the mainland during the …

Dietary reconstruction of an early to middle Holocene human population from the central California coast: insights from advanced stable isotope mixing models

SD Newsome, DL Phillips, BJ Culleton… - Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
The inherent sampling and preservational biases of the archaeological record make it
difficult to quantify prehistoric human diets, especially in coastal settings, where populations …

Paleocoastal marine fishing on the Pacific Coast of the Americas: perspectives from Daisy Cave, California

TC Rick, JM Erlandson, RL Vellanoweth - American Antiquity, 2001 - cambridge.org
Analysis of over 27,000 fish bones from strata at Daisy Cave dated between about 11,500
and 8500 cal BP suggests that early Channel Islanders fished relatively intensively in a …

Sea level, paleogeography, and archeology on California's Northern Channel Islands

L Reeder-Myers, JM Erlandson, DR Muhs… - Quaternary …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Sea-level rise during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene inundated nearshore areas in
many parts of the world, producing drastic changes in local ecosystems and obscuring …