Catalysts to complexity : late Holocene societies of the California coast
Jon Erlandson (Editor), Terry L. Jones (Editor), Jeanne E. Arnold (Contributor), Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
When the Spanish colonized the California Coast, it was inhabited by speakers of no fewer than 16 distinct languages and an untold number of small, autonomous Native communities. These societies all survived by foraging, and ethnohistoric records show a wide range of adaptations emphasizing a host of different marine and terrestrial foods.
eBook, English, 2002
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Los Angeles, 2002