Social Circumscription, Territoriality, and the Late Holocene Intensification of Small-Bodied Shellfish Along the California Coast

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 150-168

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

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

Author keywords

California; coastal; economy and subsistence; foraging theory; settlement pattern; social organization

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; EXPLOITATION; HOLOCENE; PLANT; PREHISTORIC; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; ROCKY SHORE; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SHELLFISH; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SUBSISTENCE; TERRITORIALITY;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904426913     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2014.881934     Document Type: Article

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