Archaeology, Human Impacts, and Historical Ecology on San Miguel Island, California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Archaeology, Human Impacts, and Historical Ecology on San Miguel Island, California write by Todd J. Braje. This book was released on 2007. Archaeology, Human Impacts, and Historical Ecology on San Miguel Island, California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two national commissions recently concluded that the world's oceans are in a state of crisis. A relatively high percentage of commercial fisheries are either fully exploited or overexploited and a number of coastal ecosystems are near collapse. Jackson et al. (2001) and Pauly et al. (1998) have argued that to understand the ocean crisis, we need to develop deeper historical perspectives on the ecology of coastal ecosystems and the impacts that humans have had on them. California's Channel Islands contain a remarkable record of maritime people's interaction with marine and terrestrial ecosystems for the last 12,000 years. Thousands of well-preserved shell middens provide archaeologists, other scientists, and resource managers with information concerning the historical ecology of the islands and the evolving relationship between humans and their fragile island ecosystems.
The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island
The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island write by Torben C. Rick. This book was released on 2007-12-31. The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. California's northern Channel Islands have one of the longest and best-preserved archaeological records in the Americas, spanning some 13,000 calendar years. When European explorers first travelled to the area, these islands were inhabited by the Chumash, some of the most populous and culturally complex hunter-gatherers known. Chumash society was characterised by hereditary leaders, sophisticated exchange networks and interaction spheres, and diverse maritime economies. Focusing on the archaeology of five sites dated to the last 3,000 years, this book examines the archaeology and historical ecology of San Miguel Island, the westernmost and most isolated of the northern Channel Islands. Detailed faunal, artefact, and other data are woven together in a diachronic analysis that investigates the interplay of social and ecological developments on this unique island. The first to focus solely on San Miguel Island archaeology, this book examines issues ranging from coastal adaptations to emergent cultural complexity to historical ecology and human impacts on ancient environments.
Modern Oceans, Ancient Sites
Modern Oceans, Ancient Sites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Oceans, Ancient Sites write by Todd J Braje. This book was released on 2009-10-31. Modern Oceans, Ancient Sites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is a growing consensus in the scientific realm that the world’s oceans are reaching a state of crisis as commercial fisheries are more widely overexploited and many coastal ecosystems are approaching collapse. A number of scientists and resource managers have argued that a successful understanding of the current crisis can be found through the development of a deeper historical perspective of the ecology of coastal ecosystems and the impacts that humans have had on them. In Modern Oceans, Ancient Sites: Archaeology and Marine Conservation on San Miguel Island, California, Todd Braje works to provide just such an understanding, bridging the divide between the archaeological record and the modern crisis. Using archaeological, paleoecological, and historical datasets from California’s Channel Islands and the larger Santa Barbara Channel region, Braje explores the evolving relationship between humans and fragile island ecosystems. San Miguel Island, westernmost of the Northern Channel Islands, holds archaeological records spanning 10,000 years, providing a backdrop for the examination of changes in human demography, subsistence, and technology over time. Braje’s systematic excavations of five well-preserved sitesranging from a 9500-year-old shell midden to a 150-year-old abalone fishing camptranslate into a long-term case study that enables a unique assessment of the human impacts on marine ecosystems. Modern Oceans, Ancient Sites: Archaeology and Marine Conservation on San Miguel Island, California helps to provide a more complete picture of human sea and land use through time, offering vital information for understanding, interpreting, and managing the past, present, and future of both the Channel Islands and global marine ecosystems. Braje demonstrates the relevance of archaeological, historical, and paleoecological data to extant environmental problems and concludes with tangible and practical recommendations for managing modern marine ecosystems and fisheries.
The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies
The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies write by Victor D. Thompson. This book was released on 2019-03-01. The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most research into humans' impact on the environment has focused on large-scale societies; a corollary assumption has been that small scale economies are sustainable and in harmony with nature. The contributors to this volume challenge this notion, revealing how such communities shaped their environment—and not always in a positive way. Offering case studies from around the world—from Brazil to Japan, Denmark to the Rocky Mountains—the chapters empirically demonstrate the substantial transformations of the surrounding landscape made by hunter-gatherer and limited horticultural societies. Summarizing previous research as well as presenting new data, this book shows that the environmental impact and legacy of societies are not always proportional their size. Understanding that our species leaves a footprint wherever it has been leads to both a better understanding of our prehistoric past and to deeper implications for our future relationship to the world around us.
Islands through Time
Islands through Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islands through Time write by Todd J. Braje. This book was released on 2021-11-06. Islands through Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explore the remarkable history of one of the jewels of the US National Park system California’s Northern Channel Islands, sometimes called the American Galápagos and one of the jewels of the US National Park system, are a located between 20 and 44 km off the southern California mainland coast. Celebrated as a trip back in time where tourists can capture glimpses of California prior to modern development, the islands are often portrayed as frozen moments in history where ecosystems developed in virtual isolation for tens of thousands of years. This could not, however, be further from the truth. For at least 13,000 years, the Chumash and their ancestors occupied the Northern Channel Islands, leaving behind an archaeological record that is one of the longest and best preserved in the Americas. From ephemeral hunting and gathering camps to densely populated coastal villages and Euro-American and Chinese historical sites, archaeologists have studied the Channel Island environments and material culture records for over 100 years. They have pieced together a fascinating story of initial settlement by mobile hunter-gatherers to the development of one of the world’s most complex hunter-gatherer societies ever recorded, followed by the devastating effects of European contact and settlement. Likely arriving by boat along a “kelp highway,” Paleocoastal migrants found not four offshore islands, but a single super island, Santarosae. For millennia, the Chumash and their predecessors survived dramatic changes to their land- and seascapes, climatic fluctuations, and ever-evolving social and cultural systems. Islands Through Time is the remarkable story of the human and ecological history of California’s Northern Channel Islands. We weave the tale of how the Chumash and their ancestors shaped and were shaped by their island homes. Their story is one of adaptation to shifting land- and seascapes, growing populations, fluctuating subsistence resources, and the innovation of new technologies, subsistence strategies, and socio-political systems. Islands Through Time demonstrates that to truly understand and preserve the Channel Islands National Park today, archaeology and deep history are critically important. The lessons of history can act as a guide for building sustainable strategies into the future. The resilience of the Chumash and Channel Island ecosystems provides a story of hope for a world increasingly threatened by climate change, declining biodiversity, and geopolitical instability.
