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Before California : an archaeologist looks at our earliest inhabitants
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Before California : an archaeologist looks at our earliest inhabitants

Author: Brian M Fagan
Publisher: Walnut Creek, CA : Altamira Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A look at California's history before the arrival of the European settlers. It describes the process of settlement of the Pacific Coast by Paleo-Indians and the environmental and human  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Brian M Fagan
ISBN: 0742527948 9780742527942
OCLC Number: 226025645
Description: p. cm.
Contents: Pt. I. The Archaeologist's Tale --
1. A Stream of Time (Before 11,200 B.C. to A.D. 1542) --
Pt. II. Beginnings (Before 11,200 to c. 2500 B.C.) --
2. First Footprints (Before 11,200 B.C. to c. 9000 B.C.) --
3. The First Coastal Settlement (c. 11,000 to 6500 B.C.) --
4. The Mainland: A World of Milling Stones (9500 to 2500 B.C.) --
5. The Dolphin Hunters (c. 6500 to 2500 B.C.) --
Pt. III. The Web of Interconnectedness (c. 2500 to 1500 B.C.) --
6. A Changing World (c. 2500 to 1500 B.C.) --
7. The Seductive Glass --
8. The Realm of the Supernatural --
9. Art on the Rocks --
Pt. IV. A Crowded World (c. 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1542) --
10. The Northwest: Dugouts and Salmon --
11. San Francisco Bay: A Landscape of Mounds --
12. Central Valley and Foothills: Realm of the Rivers --
13. The South and Southeast: Coast, Hinterland, and Desert --
14. Santa Barbara Channel: The World of the Tomol --
15. Entrada.
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Fagan explains dramatic changes in regional culures and populations while also recognizing their continuity and intensive interaction...Authoritative and written in a narrative style, the book is Read more...

 
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