California Prehistory -- Colonization, Culture, and Complexity -- Contents -- Illustrations -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 -- Archaeological Progress since 1984 -- MICHAEL J. MORAT TO AND JOSEPH L. CHARTKOFF -- SOURCES OF CHANGE -- THE PRESENT VOLUME -- SOME FINAL THOUGHTS -- CHAPTER 2 -- Late Pleistocene and Holocene Environments -- G. JAMES WEST, WALLACE WOOLFENDEN, JAMES A. WANKET, AND R. SCOTT ANDERSON -- ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE, AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR -- CHRONOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- THE FOSSIL PROXY RECORD -- CISMONTANE CALIFORNIA -- TRANSMONTANE CALIFORNIA -- DISCUSSION -- CHAPTER 3 -- Postglacial Evolution of Coastal Environments -- PATRICIA M. MASTERS AND IVANO W. AIELLO -- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, BY PATRICIA M. MASTERS -- CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, BY IVANO W. AIELLO -- CHAPTER 4 -- One If by Land, Two If by Sea: Who Were the First Californians? -- JON M. ERLANDSON, TORBEN C. RICK, TERRY L. JONES, AND JUDITH F. PORCASI -- COLONIZATION CHRONOLOGIES: THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT -- PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF BERINGIA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST -- OPENING PANDORA'S BOX: BREAKING THE CLOVIS BARRIER -- TERMINAL PLEISTOCENE AND EARLY HOLOCENE OCCUPATIONS -- DIVERSITY IN PALEO-INDIAN ECONOMIES -- CURRENTS AND COUNTERCURRENTS -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 5 -- Colonization Technologies: Fluted Projectile Points and the San Clemente Island Woodworking/Microblade Complex -- MICHAEL F. RONDEAU, JIM CASSIDY, AND TERRY L. JONES -- CALIFORNIA FLUTED PROJECTILE POINTS, BY MICHAEL F. RONDEAU -- THE SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND WOODWORKING/MICROBLADE COMPLEX, BY JIM CASSIDY -- CHAPTER 6 -- Linguistic Prehistory -- VICTOR GOLLA -- ATHABASKAN -- ALGIC -- UTO-AZTECAN -- PENUTIAN -- HOKAN -- CHUMASH AND YUKIAN -- PREHISTORIC IMPLICATIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7.

Northwest California: Ancient Lifeways among Forested Mountains, Flowing Rivers, and Rocky Ocean Shores -- WILLIAM R. HILDEBRANDT -- THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA -- NATIVE PEOPLES AT HISTORIC CONTACT -- CULTURAL HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS: CHANGING PATTERNS OF SUBSISTENCE, SETTLEMENT, AND SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION -- RESEARCH THEMES IN NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA -- CHAPTER 8 -- Punctuated Culture Change in the San Francisco Bay Area -- RANDALL MILLIKEN, RICHARD T. FITZGERALD, MARK G. HYLKEMA, RANDY GROZA, TOM ORIGER, DAVID G. BIELING, ALAN LEVENTHAL, RANDY S. WIBERG, ANDREW GOTTSFIELD, DONNA GILLETTE, VIVIANA BELLIFEMINE, ERIC STROTHER, ROBERT CARTIER, AND DAVID A. FREDRICKSON -- CHRONOLOGICAL AND TAXONOMIC ISSUES -- SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS -- SUBSISTENCE PATTERNS -- MORTUARY PATTERNS AND SYMBOLIC EXPRESSIONS -- PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY -- THE BAY AREA CULTURAL SEQUENCE IN BRIEF -- CONCLUSION: WHAT DROVE CHANGE IN BAY AREA PREHISTORY? -- CHAPTER 9 -- The Central Coast: A Midlatitude Milieu -- TERRY L. JONES, NATHAN E. STEVENS, DEBORAH A. JONES, RICHARD T. FITZGERALD, AND MARK G. HYLKEMA -- ENVIRONMENT -- NATIVE SOCIETIES AT CONTACT -- HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND KEY COMPONENTS -- CULTURE HISTORY, SETTLEMENT, AND SUBSISTENCE -- ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 10 -- The Central Valley: A View from the Catbird's Seat -- JEFFREY S. ROSENTHAL, GREGORY G. WHITE, AND Mark Q. SUTTON -- ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT -- NATIVE PEOPLES AT CONTACT -- THE CENTRAL VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD -- CULTURE CHANGE IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY -- QUESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- NOTE -- CHAPTER 11 -- Models Made of Glass: A Prehistory of Northeast California -- KELLY R. MCGUIRE -- NATURAL SETTING -- ETHNOGRAPHIC PEOPLES -- THE PREHISTORIC PAST -- NOTE -- CHAPTER 12 -- The Sierra Nevada: Archaeology in the Range of Light -- KATHLEEN L. HULL.

THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF THE SIERRA NEVADA -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY PRIOR TO 1980 -- A BRIEF HISTORY AND MAJOR PROJECTS SINCE 1980 -- SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 1980 -- CONCLUSION -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- CHAPTER 13 -- Prehistory of the Northern California Bight and the Adjacent Transverse Ranges -- MICHAEL A. GLASSOW, LYNN H. GAMBLE, JENNIFER E. PERRY, AND GLENN S. RUSSELL -- THE BEGINNINGS OF PREHISTORY -- THE EARLIEST WELL-ESTABLISHED OCCUPATION: THE MILLINGSTONE HORIZON -- FOUNDATIONS OF A MARITIME LIFEWAY: 4500 TO 2000 CAL B.C. -- MARINE AND TERRESTRIAL TRANSITIONS FROM THE MIDDLE TO LATE HOLOCENE, 2000 CAL B.C. TO CAL A.D. 1 -- IMPORTANT TECHNOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS, CAL A.D. 1 TO 1000 -- COMPLEXITY AND CLIMATIC CHANGE, CAL A.D. 1000 TO MISSIONIZATION -- WHEN DID COMPLEX SOCIOPOLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS DEVELOP IN THE NORTHERN BIGHT? -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 14 -- Prehistory of the Southern Bight: Models for a New Millennium -- BRIAN F. BYRD AND L. MARK RAAB -- THE RADIOCARBON REVOLUTION: HOW OLD IS THE PAST? -- CHRONOLOGY OF PREHISTORY: EARLY, MIDDLE, AND LATE HOLOCENE -- PREHISTORY UPSIDE DOWN -- MODELS FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM -- CHAPTER 15 -- Advances in Understanding Mojave Desert Prehistory -- MARK Q. SUTTON, MARK E. BASGALL, JILL K. GARDNER, AND Mark W. ALLEN -- BACKGROUND -- A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF PALEOENVIRONMENT -- DATING AND NOMENCLATURE -- THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURAL SYSTEMS -- LINGUISTIC PREHISTORY -- OTHER RESEARCH ISSUES -- WHAT NEXT? THE FUTURE OF MOJAVE DESERT ARCHAEOLOGY -- CHAPTER 16 -- The Colorado Desert: Ancient Adaptations to Wetlands and Wastelands -- JERRY SCHAEFER AND DON LAYLANDER -- LATE PLEISTOCENE THROUGH HOLOCENE -- LAKE CAHUILLA -- OBSIDIAN BUTTE -- LITHIC PROCUREMENT -- PATAYAN CERAMICS -- AGRICULTURE -- TRADE, TRAVEL, SYMBOLISM, AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE.

NATIVE AMERICANS, ARCHAEOLOGISTS, AND THE PUBLIC AS PARTNERS IN INTERPRETING THE PAST -- PROSPECTS -- CHAPTER 17 -- Prehistoric Material Conveyance -- RICHARD E. HUGHES AND RANDALL MILLIKEN -- INTERPRETING OBSIDIAN DISPERSAL -- INTERPRETING SHELL BEAD DISPERSAL -- SHELL AND OBSIDIAN -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 18 -- Rock Art in the Golden State: Pictographs and Petroglyphs, Portable and Panoramic -- AMY J. GILREATH -- ROCK ART -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- CHAPTER 19 -- Prehistoric Mitochondrial DNA and Population Movements -- JASON A. ESHLEMAN AND DAVID GLENN SMITH -- ANCIENT DNA IN PREHISTORIC CALIFORNIA -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 20 -- Colonization, Culture, and Complexity -- TERRY L. JONES AND KATHRYN A. KLAR -- COLONIZATION -- CULTURE -- COMPLEXITY -- EPILOGUE: THE FUTURE OF A CHAOTIC PAST -- NOTES -- References -- About the Editors and Contributors -- ABOUT THE EDITORS -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.