The House of the Sea: An Essay on the Antiquity of Planked Canoes in Southern California

2004 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Fagan
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Santa Barbara Channel ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Channel Region

The Chumash tomol, a sophisticated planked canoe, came into use in the Santa Barbara Channel region of Southern California about 1,500 years ago. It is often assumed that planked watercraft were first developed in the region at about that date. This paper argues, on theoretical grounds, that planked canoes were developed much earlier in Southern California, perhaps as early as 8,500 years ago.

Blade Manufacture in Southern California

1960 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. K. Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Southern California ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Santa Barbara Channel ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Triangular Cross Section ◽  
Late Horizon ◽  
Channel Region

AbstractThe striking of long, slender, parallel-sided flakes, or blades, from prepared cores has long been known in the Arctic and Mesoamerica. Small pointed blades with distinctive triangular cross section are also found in the Late Horizon in both mainland and island Canaliño sites in that part of the Santa Barbara Channel region of southern California which was ethnographically occupied by the Chumash.

Bathymetry and Acoustic Backscatter: Northern Santa Barbara Channel, Southern California

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pete Dartnell ◽  
David Finlayson ◽  
Jamie Conrad ◽  
Guy Cochrane ◽  
Samuel Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Acoustic Backscatter ◽  
Santa Barbara Channel ◽  
Santa Barbara

scholarly journals Intrashell Radiocarbon Variability in Marine Mollusks

Radiocarbon ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan J Culleton ◽  
Douglas J Kennett ◽  
B Lynn Ingram ◽  
Jon M Erlandson ◽  
John R Southon
Keyword(s):  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Mytilus Californianus ◽  
Ocean Water ◽  
Santa Barbara Channel ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Complex Product ◽  
Deep Ocean Water ◽  
San Miguel Island ◽  
Ams Dating ◽  
Channel Region

We demonstrate variable radiocarbon content within 2 historic (AD 1936) and 2 prehistoric (about 8200 BP and 3500 BP) Mytilus californianus shells from the Santa Barbara Channel region, California, USA. Historic specimens from the mainland coast exhibit a greater range of intrashell variability (i.e. 180–240 14C yr) than archaeological specimens from Daisy Cave on San Miguel Island (i.e. 120 14C yr in both shells). δ13C and δ18O profiles are in general agreement with the up welling of deep ocean water depleted in 14C as a determinant of local marine reservoir correction (ΔR) in the San Miguel Island samples. Upwelling cycles are difficult to identify in the mainland specimens, where intrashell variations in 14C content may be a complex product of oceanic mixing and periodic seasonal inputs of 14C-depeleted terrestrial runoff. Though the mechanisms controlling ΔR at subannual to annual scales are not entirely clear, the fluctuations represent significant sources of random dating error in marine environments, particularly if a small section of shell is selected for accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating. For maximum precision and accuracy in AMS dating of marine shells, we recommend that archaeologists, paleontologists, and 14C lab personnel average out these variations by sampling across multiple increments of growth.

Complex Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of Prehistoric California: Chiefs, Specialists, and Maritime Adaptations of the Channel Islands

1992 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne E. Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
New World ◽  
Channel Islands ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Santa Barbara Channel ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Maritime Adaptations ◽  
Channel Region ◽  
Lines Of Evidence

The Chumash of the Santa Barbara Channel region were among the most economically and politically complex hunter–gatherer cultures of the New World. In recent decades, rich ethnohistorical documents pertaining to Chumash culture were analyzed, thus providing an excellent foundation for understanding the simple chiefdom that was in place as explorers and missionaries arrived in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Current archaeological research on the Channel Islands focuses on the emergence of ranked society in Chumash prehistory, with special emphasis on political developments and environmental stresses that contributed to cultural evolution. A wide range of data acquired from the Channel Islands illuminates a new model of the rise of complexity. This model of chiefdom emergence is based on population-resource imbalances, political opportunism, and the manipulation of labor by rising elites. Diverse lines of evidence must be employed to evaluate the timing, causes, and consequences of increasing complexity.

Seismotectonic setting of Santa Barbara Channel area, Southern California

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.F. Yerkes ◽  
H. Gary Greene ◽  
J.C. Tinsley ◽  
K.R. Lajoie
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Santa Barbara Channel ◽  
Santa Barbara
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