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

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

Geology and tsunamigenic potential of submarine landslides in Santa Barbara Channel, Southern California

2005 ◽  
Vol 224 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Fisher ◽  
William R. Normark ◽  
H. Gary Greene ◽  
Homa J. Lee ◽  
Ray W. Sliter
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Submarine Landslides ◽  
Santa Barbara Channel ◽  
Santa Barbara

Diffusionism Reconsidered: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Polynesian Contact with Southern California

2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry L. Jones ◽  
Kathryn A. Klar
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
Santa Barbara Channel ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Construction Technique ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
North American Archaeology ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
North American Prehistory

While the prevailing theoretical orthodoxy of North American archaeology overwhelmingly discourages consideration of transoceanic cultural diffusion, linguistic and archaeological evidence appear to indicate at least one instance of direct cultural contact between Polynesia and southern California during the prehistoric era. Three words used to refer to boats - including the distinctive sewn-plank canoe used by Chumashan and Gabrielino speakers of the southern California coast - are odd by the phonotactic and morphological standards of their languages and appear to correlate with Proto-Central Eastern Polynesian terms associated with woodworking and canoe construction. Chumashan and Gabrielino speakers seem to have borrowed this complex of words along with the sewn-plank construction technique itself sometime between ca. A.D. 400 and 800, at which time there is also evidence for punctuated adaptive change (e.g., increased exploitation of pelagic fish) and appearance of a Polynesian style two-piece bone fishhook in the Santa Barbara Channel. These developments were coeval with a period of major exploratory seafaring by the Polynesians that resulted in the discovery and settlement of Hawaii - the nearest Polynesian outpost to southern California. Archaeological and ethnographic information from the Pacific indicates that the Polynesians had the capabilities of navigation, boat construction, and sailing, as well as the cultural incentives to complete a one-way passage from Hawaii to the mainland of southern California. These findings suggest that diffusion and other forms of historical contingency still need to be considered in constructions of North American prehistory.

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.

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