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Bigger boats, crowded creekbanks: environmental stresses in perspective
American antiquity • 62 (2) • Published In 1997 • Pages: 337-339
By: Arnold, Jeanne E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.D. 1150-1300. Arnold argues, rather, that multiple factors such as drought, high population density, high surface sea temperature, “technological innovation, and human agency,” are better able to explain the complex changes that occurred in the Channel Islands region during the Transitional Period.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Climate
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- 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 - 700 BP (800 A.D. - 1300 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- coastal southern California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jeanne E. Arnold
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 339)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46036122
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- California--Antiquities