Ancestral Native American Archaeology of the San Francisco Bay Area
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
San Francisco Bay is the second largest estuarine system on the west coast of North America. The remarkable biotic diversity of the bay, with its surrounding valleys, uplands and vast tidal delta supported a great mosaic of individual tribal polities for several thousand years. During the Late Holocene, dramatic trends toward more complex forms of social organization, economic diversification and extensification is abundantly evident in the archaeology of the region. This symposium, composed of a wide-ranging collection of presentations, explores aspects of social complexity, subsistence pursuits and economic diversity within an area that was one of the great population centers of Tribal North America.
Other Keywords
stable isotope analysis •
Faunal •
Social Complexity •
Geoarchaeology •
bioarchaeology •
Trade •
Archaeology •
Diet •
Boats •
Hunter-Gatherer
Geographic Keywords
North America - California
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Auditory Exostosis: A Marker of Occupational Stress in Pre-Contact Populations from the San Francisco Bay Region of California (2015)
Diachronic Changes in the Shell Mounds of the San Francisco Bay: A Case Study of Ellis Landing (CA-CCO-295) (2015)
An Ideal Free Settlement Perspective on Residential Positioning in the San Francisco Bay Area (2015)
Kroeber’s omnivore’s dilemma: regional perspectives on late Holocene human paleodiets in the San Francisco Bay area (2015)
Men at Work: Economic Complexity and Exploitation of Dietary Marine Protein Sources in the San Francisco Bay Area (2015)