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Craft specialization in the prehistoric Channel Islands, CaliforniaBook 1987 • Arnold, Jeanne E.
Late Southern California • North America > Northwest Coast and California
Arnold explores the rise of chert microblade production as a craft specialization on Santa Cruz Island. It was a legitimate craft specialization in that a group of individuals practiced this craft to the exclusion of others, there was a standardized ...Complex hunter-gatherer-fishers of prehistoric Californiaarticle 1992 • Arnold, Jeanne E.
Late Southern California • North America > Northwest Coast and California
Arnold presents an overview on the Santa Cruz Island Chumash and proposes a model of the development of a simple chiefdom society on the Santa Barbara Channel Islands and presents evidence to support it. Arnold believes there was a population-natural...Bigger boats, crowded creekbanksarticle 1997 • Arnold, Jeanne E.
Late Southern California • North America > Northwest Coast and California
Arnold responds to the article by Raab and Larson (1997; eHRAF document number 17). She points out that no new archaeological data is presented that supports their contention that drought alone caused all the cultural changes that occurred between A....