Boat-based foraging and discontinuous prehistoric red abalone exploitation along the California coast

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 196-214

  Whitaker, Adrian R ^a   Byrd, Brian F ^a  

^a Far Western Anthropological Research Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Abalone (Haliotis spp.); Behavioral ecology; California; Historical ecology; Intensification; Settlement and subsistence; Shell middens

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857913452     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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