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Kroeber’s omnivore’s dilemma: regional perspectives on late Holocene human paleodiets in the San Francisco Bay area (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Bartelink. Jelmer Eerkens. Melanie Beasley. Karen Gardner.

The analysis of ancient hunter-gatherer diet in the San Francisco Bay Area has been the subject of enormous research effort over the past century. Hundreds of "shell mounds" that once dotted the landscape around the bayshore provide evidence for significant population growth during the Late Holocene. Resource intensification models link population increase to a shift away from exploitation of low-cost, high-ranked prey toward greater use of high-cost, low-ranked prey at a number of...