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Medieval climactic anomaly and punctuated cultural evolution in coastal southern California
American antiquity • 62 (2) • Published In 1997 • Pages: 319-336
By: Raab, L. Mark, Larson, Daniel O..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Raab and Larson attribute settlement disruption, disease, and violence to severe terrestrial drought rather than elevated surface sea temperatures (see Arnold 1987, 1992, and 1997; eHRAF files 1, 2, and 18.) They believe emergent social complexity may have been a response to the above. They review the literature and discuss the climate changes, mortuary data, and settlement patterns which support their hypothesis. While most of the data come from the Chumash area, Raab and Larson include data from throughout southern California.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Nutrition
- Morbidity
- Prehistory
- Settlement patterns
- Offenses against the person
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Late Southern California
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1200 BP - 600 BP (800 A.D. - 1400 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chumash; Calif., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- L. Mark Raab and Daniel O. Larson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-336)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46036122
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- California--Antiquities