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Medieval climactic anomaly and punctuated cultural evolution in coastal southern Californiaarticle 1997 • Raab, L. Mark & Larson, Daniel O.
Late Southern California • North America > Northwest Coast and California
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 ma...