Table of Content
CHAPTER 1 Introduction Study Area, Climate Change and Emergent Cultural Complexity, Note on Chronology CHAPTER 2 Human Behavioral Ecology and Maritime Societies Maritime Foraging Strategies, Diet Choice in Maritime Settings, Return Rates for Marine Resources, Central Place Foraging and Maritime Foragers, Intensification and the Ideal Free Distribution, Competition and the Formation of Social Hierarchies in Coastal Settings, Summary CHAPTER 3 Environmental Context General Physiography, Geology, Climate, Hydrology, Terrestrial Resources-Spatial Distribution, Marine Resources-Spatial Distribution, Seasonal Variability, Short-Term Climatic Variability, Paleoenvironment, Sea-level, Marine Climate History, Terrestrial Climate History, Summary CHAPTER 4 Cultural Context The Ethnohistoric Record, Chumash Population Levels, Subsistence, Settlement, Sexual Division of Labor, Sociopolitical Organization, Exchange and Specialization, Warfare and Territoriality, Ethnohistoric Summary, The Prehistoric Record, Chronology, Cultural Overview, Development of Sociopolitical Complexity, Punctuated Cultural Development, Prehistoric Summary CHAPTER 5 Historic Island Communities Historic Island Villages, Santa Cruz Island, Santa Rosa Island, San Miguel Island, Geographic Analysis, Viewshed Analysis, Rank-Size Analysis,Summary CHAPTER 6 Terminal Pleistocene to Middle Holocene Records Terminal Pleistocene Record, Early Holocene Record, Middle Holocene Record CHAPTER 7 Late Holocene Population Growth and Demographic Expansion, Territoriality and Warfare, Economic Intensificaton, Increases in Trade and Exchange, Emergent Sociopolitical Complexity CHAPTER 8 Synthesis Diet Breadth Central Place Foraging, Intensification and the Ideal Free Distribution, Competition and the Formation of Social Hierarchies References Index
