Current Insights into Pyrodiversity and Seascape Management on the Central California Coast
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Current Insights into Pyrodiversity and Seascape Management on the Central California Coast," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Along the Central Coast of California, ancient indigenous landscape management practices have been examined in the context of long-term human occupation, climatic and environmental variability, and resulting changes in human-environmental relationships with the onset of Spanish, Mexican, and American colonization. As part of an ongoing collaborative eco-archaeological research project involving interdisciplinary scholars including members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, California State Parks, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz, data was collected from five sites (SCR-7, SCR-10, SCR-15, SCR-14, and SCR-123/38H) along the Santa Cruz Coast during the summers of 2016-17. This symposium highlights paleoethnobotanical, zooarchaeological, ancient DNA analysis, and artifactual analysis from these sites and how these analyses and interpretations can be mobilized to broaden our understanding of ancient California landscape and seascape management practices and human-environmental relationships
Other Keywords
historical ecology •
Zooarchaeology •
Archaic •
Coastal and Island Archaeology •
Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers •
Lithic Analysis •
Paleoethnobotany •
Indigenous •
ancient DNA •
traditional ecological knowledge
Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Utah (State / Territory) •
Nevada (State / Territory) •
California (State / Territory) •
North America (Continent) •
USA (Country) •
North America: California and Great Basin
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