Monumentality in the Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Landscapes of the Greater San Francisco Bay, California
Author(s): Kent Lightfoot; Edward Luby; Matthew Russell; Gabriel Sanchez; Thomas Wake
Year: 2016
Summary
This paper examines the construction of impressive mounded landscapes along the greater San Francisco Bay in Late Holocene and Historic times.The authors address some of the theoretical and methodological issues involved in the investigation of extensive accretional shell mound complexes that were built up over multiple centuries. In evaluating questions about how and why these monumental landscapes were constructed, they present recent findings from the study of both large and small sized mounds from a discrete settlement cluster on the east shore of San Francisco Bay.
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Monumentality in the Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Landscapes of the Greater San Francisco Bay, California. Kent Lightfoot, Edward Luby, Matthew Russell, Gabriel Sanchez, Thomas Wake. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403614)
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Keywords
General
mounded landscapes
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Shell Mounds
Geographic Keywords
North America - California
Spatial Coverage
min long: -125.464; min lat: 32.101 ; max long: -114.214; max lat: 42.033 ;