| 簡介： |
Over the last few decades, knowledge of cultural development on the northern Channel Islands of California has expanded significantly.We now know that occupation began least 12,500 years ago, that plant food resources were an important part of an otherwise marine-based diet, that occupation of sites in the islands’ interiors was just as important as along the coast, and that interaction with mainlanders was relatively intensive beginning at least 6,000 years ago.
Some of the discoveries on the islands have changed our views of California prehistory and the ecological adaptations of the earliest inhabitants of the North American Pacific coast. As well, new techniques for extracting data from archaeological materials have deepened understanding of subsistence and settlement patterns. |