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Table of Contents1. The Rediscovery of California Prehistory ~ Terry L. Jones and L. Mark Raab I. Environmental Crises and Culture Change 2. Environmental Imperatives Reconsidered, Demographic Crises in Western North America During the Medieval Climatic Anomaly ~ Terry L. Jones, et al. II. Hunter-Gatherers in a Land of Plenty? 3. Declines in Mammalian Forging Efficiency during the Late Holocene, San Francisco Bay ~ Jack M. Broughton 4. Evolution of Marine Mammal Hunting: A View from the California and Oregon Coasts ~ William R. Hildebrandt and Terry L. Jones 5. Trans-Holocene Marine Mammal Exploitation on San Clemente Island: A Tragedy of the Commons Revisited ~ Judith F. Porcasi, Terry L. Jones and L. Mark Raab 6. Resource Intensification among Hunter-Gatherers: Acorn Economies in Prehistoric California ~ Mark E. Basgall 7. Health in Prehistoric Populations of the Santa Barbara Channel Islands ~ Patricia M. Lambert III. One If By Land, Two If By Sea 8. Anatomically Modern Humans, Maritime Voyaging, and the Pleistocene Colonization of the Americas ~ Jon M. Erlandson 9. The Cross Creek Site and its Implications for New World Colonization ~ Terry L. Jones, et al. IV. The Origins of Social Complexity 10. Competitive and Cooperative Responses to Climatic Instability in Coastal Southern California ~ D. J. Kennett and J. P. Kennett 11. Social Responses to Climate Change Among the Chumash Indians of South-Central California ~ John R. Johnson V. Men, Women, and Work 12. The Possibilities of Men and Women: Gender and the California Milling Stone Horizon ~ Kelly R. McGuire and William R. Hildebrandt 13. Pounding Acorns: Women\u2019s Production as Social and Economic Focus ~ Thomas L. Jackson VI. Vectors of Death: Tragedy Before European Settlement 14. Serpent in Eden: Dispersal of Foreign Diseases into Pre-Mission California ~ William Preston VII. The Fall of the Acorn Curtain 15. The Future of California Prehistory ~ Terry L. Jones and L. Mark Raab References List of Contributors Index
