Publication Date:
2011-03-10
Description:
Three archaeological sites on California's Channel Islands show that Paleoindians relied heavily on marine resources. The Paleocoastal sites, dated between ~12,200 and 11,200 years ago, contain numerous stemmed projectile points and crescents associated with a variety of marine and aquatic faunal remains. At site CA-SRI-512 on Santa Rosa Island, Paleocoastal peoples used such tools to capture geese, cormorants, and other birds, along with marine mammals and finfish. At Cardwell Bluffs on San Miguel Island, Paleocoastal peoples collected local chert cobbles, worked them into bifaces and projectile points, and discarded thousands of marine shells. With bifacial technologies similar to those seen in Western Pluvial Lakes Tradition assemblages of western North America, the sites provide evidence for seafaring and island colonization by Paleoindians with a diversified maritime economy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Erlandson, Jon M -- Rick, Torben C -- Braje, Todd J -- Casperson, Molly -- Culleton, Brendan -- Fulfrost, Brian -- Garcia, Tracy -- Guthrie, Daniel A -- Jew, Nicholas -- Kennett, Douglas J -- Moss, Madonna L -- Reeder, Leslie -- Skinner, Craig -- Watts, Jack -- Willis, Lauren -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Mar 4;331(6021):1181-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1201477.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA. jerland@uoregon.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21385713" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Archaeology
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California
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Emigration and Immigration/history
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Geography
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History, Ancient
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Humans
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Pacific Ocean
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Technology/*history
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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