Before California

Before California
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Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : 0759103747
ISBN-13 : 9780759103740
Rating : 4/5 (740 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Before California by : Brian M. Fagan

Download or read book Before California written by Brian M. Fagan and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did California look like before Hollywood? Before the Gold Rush? Before the missions? Brian Fagan, the best known popular archaeology writer in America, is your tour guide on a fascinating trip across the Golden State before the arrival of Europeans. Fagan tells of the first groups who drifted into the state over 13,000 years ago and how their descendants used the land and sea to survive in a fragile environment subject to earthquake, drought, and flood. On your tour, you will visit the shellmounds of San Francisco Bay, salmon trappers of the northern streams, acorn gatherers of the Central Valley, Chumash villages on the Santa Barbara coast, and shamans who painted mysterious figures on stone. Fagan shows how archaeologists scientifically reconstruct this lost history from fragments of bone, shell, and stone, from travellers' and scholars' descriptions of vanished peoples, and from the stories told by the tribal members themselves. Join a famous archaeologist on this captivating journey and find out what important lessons this story has for California's future.


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