General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- The Effects of Social Change on Marine Technology in a Pacific Atoll Community -- Some Studies of the Influences of Prehistoric Human Predation on Marine Animal Population Dynamics -- Problems of the Origin of Ancient Sea Hunters' Cultures in the Northern Pacific -- Cultural and Social Change in the Modes of Ownership of Stone Tidal Weirs -- Early Maritime Cultural Orientations in Prehistoric Chile -- Fishing Effort in the Aboriginal Fisheries of the Santa Barbara Region, California: An Ethnohistorical Appraisal -- Technological Continuity and Change within a Persistent Maritime Adaptation: Kodiak Island, Alaska -- On the Distribution of Kuskowagamuit Fishcamps: A Study in the Ecology of Adaptive Radiation -- Traditional and Contemporary Fishing Cultures on the Soviet Pacific Coast -- Chinese Fishermen in Hong Kong and in Malaysia -- Prehistoric Fauna and Economy in the Solomon Islands -- The Risks of Dietary Change: A Pacific Atoll Example -- Marine Fishing in Archaeological Perspective: Techniques for Determining Fishing Strategies -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.