California's northern Channel Islands have one of the longest and best-preserved archaeological records in the Americas, spanning some 13,000 calendar years. Wh

Between 1769 and 1834, an influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists streamed into Alta California seeking new opportunities. Their arrival brought

In this book, the 'field' is not an exotic locale but the sometimes dusty back rooms of libraries, archives and museums. These largely untapped resources howeve

This volume highlights the latest research on the foundations of sociopolitical complexity in coastal California. The populous maritime societies of southern Ca