Resilience and reorganization: Archaeology and historical ecology of California channel Island marine mammals

Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters: Integrating Archaeology and Ecology in the Northeast Pacific

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 273-296

  Braje, Todd J ^a,e   Rick, Torben C ^b   DeLong, Robert L ^c   Erlandson, Jon M ^d  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^e HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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