Native California

This guide contains bibliographic references (listed by author) and links to internet resources for California prehistory and ethnography.

Books:

Arkush, Brooke S.
    1995. The Archaeology of Ca-Mno-2122 : A Study of Pre-Contact and Post-Contact Lifeways Among the Mono Basin Paiute. University of California Publications.

Arnold, Jeanne E.
    1987. Craft Specialization in the Prehistoric Channel Islands, California University of California Publications in Anthropology, Vol 18.

    1992. Stone Tool Procurement, Production, and Distribution in California Prehistory. Perspectives in California Archaeology, Vol 2.

Ayers, James E.
    The Archaeology of Spanish and Mexican Colonialism in the American Southwest.


Barker, Leo R. and Julia Costello.
    1992. The Archaeology of Alta California. Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks, Vol. 15 Garland Publishing Co.

Barnes, Thomas Chalres.
    1981. Northern New Spain : A Research Guide. Univeresity of Arizona Press.

Bass, William M.
    1995. Human Osteology : A Laboratory and Field Manual Special Publications Missouri Archaeological Society), No. 2.

Bean, Lowell John.
    1992. California Indian Shamanism. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers ; No. 39.
   
1994. The Ohlone Past and Present : Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay Region. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers ; No. 42.

Bean, Lowell John and Catherine Siva Saubel.
    1972. Temalpakh: Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants. Malki Museum Press.

Bean, Lowell John and Sylvia Brakke Vane.
    1992. Ethnology of the Alta California Indians : Precontact. Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks, Vol 3.
    1992. Ethnology of the Alta California Indians : Postcontact. Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks, Vol 4.

Bean, Lowell John, Sylvia Brakke Vane and Jackson Young.
    1991. The Cahuilla Landscape : The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No 37.

Beck, Charlotte.
    1994. Dating in Exposed and Surface Contexts. University of New Mexico Press.
 
Bennyhoff, James A.,  David A. Fredrickson and Richard E. Hughes.
    1994. Toward a New Taxonomic Framework for Central California Archaeology : Essays. Contributions of the Univ. of CA Archaeological Research Facility, No 52.

Blackburn, Thomas C. and Kat Anderson.
    1993. Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No. 40.

Blackburn, Thomas C. and Travis Hudson.
    1990. Time's Flotsam : Overseas Collections of California Indian Material Culture. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No 35.

Bolton, Herbert E.
    1984. Rim of Christendom : A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer. University of Arizona Press.

 
Bonnichsen, Robson and D. Gentry Steele.
    1994. Method and Theory for Investigating the Peopling of the Americas. Oregon State University.

Breschini, Gary.
    1988. California Radiocarbon Dates. Coyote Press.

Brown, A.G.
    1997. Alluvial Geoarchaeology : Floodplain Archaeology and Environmental Change. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press.

Cannon,
    1987. Marine Fish Osteology a Manual for Archaeologists. Simon Fraser Univ Library.

Chartkoff, Joseph L. and Kerry Chartkoff.
    1984. The Archaeology of California.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher K. and Kelly M. Mann.
    1998. The Wintu and Their Neighbors. University of Arizona Press.

Claasen, Cheryl.
    1998. Shells. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press.

Costello, Julia.
    Santa Ines Mission excavations, 1986-1988.

Crosby, Harry.
    The Cave Paintings of Baja California.

Cuero, Delphino and Sylvia Brakke Vane.
    1991. Delphina Cuero : Her Autobiography : An Account of Her Last Years and Her Ethnobotanic Contributions. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No. 37.

Dillon, Brian D. and Mathew A. Boxt.
    1989. Archaeology of the Three Springs Valley California : A Study in Functional Culture History. Monograph 30 Institute of Archaeology University of California.

Erikson, Erik H,  Robert H. Lowie, and A.L. Kroeber.
    1943 (reprint). Observations on the Yurok: Childhood & World Image. University of California Publications in American Archaeology & Tehnology Vol 35: 10.

Erlandson, Jon M.
    1994. Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Roger H. Colton.
  1987 Hunter-Gatherers of Early Holocene Coastal California. Perspectives in California Archaeology, Vol. 1.

Erlandson, Jon M. and Michael Glassow.
    1987.Archaeology of the California Coast During the Middle Holocene. Perspectives in California Archaeology, No. 4.

Frierman, Jay D. and Roberta S. Greenwood.
    1991. Historical Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century California. William Andrews Clark.

Glassow, Michael A.
    Purisimeäno chumash prehistory : maritime adaptations along the Southern California coast.

Grant, Campbell.
    Rock art of Baja California With Notes on the pictographs of Baja California.

Gudde, Erwin G.
    1989, 1000 California Place Names : Their Origin and Meaning. University of California Press.

Gudde, Erwin G. and William Bright.
    1998. California Place Names : The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. University of California Press.

Harris, Edward C.
    1989. Principles of Archaeological Stratigraphy
 
Hedges, Ken.
    Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany. San Diego Museum of Man.
   
1985. Rock Art Papers.  San Diego Museum Papers, No 18

Hughes, Richard.
    1986. Diachronic Variability in Obsidian Procurement Patterns in Northeastern California and Southcentral Oregon. University of California Publications In
    1990. Current Directions in California Obsidian Studies. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility, No 48.

Hyde, Villiana Calac and Eric Elliot.
    1994. Yumayk Yumayk Long Ago : Long Ago (University of California Publications in Linguistics, Vol 125. University of California Press.

Jones, Terry L. and George Waugh.
    1995. Central California Coastal Prehistory : A View from Little Pico Creek.  Perspectives in California Archaeology, Vol 3.

Knaak, Manfred.
    1987. The Forgotten Artist : Indians of Anza-Borrego and Their Rock Art. Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association.

Layton, Thomas N.
    Western Pomo Prehistory : Excavations at Albion Head, Nightbirds' Retreat, and Three Chop Village, Mendocino County, California. Monograph 32.

Lightfoot, Kent G., Thomas A. Wake and Ann M. Schiff.
    1992. Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Fort Ross, California : Introduction. Contributions of the University of California Archaelogical Research Facility.

Marinacci, Barbara and Rudy Marinacci.
    1997.. California's Spanish Place Names : What They Are and How They Got Here. Gulf Publishing Company.

McCauley, William.
    1996. The First Angelinos : The Gabrielino Indians of Los Angeles. Ballena Press.

McGowan, Charlotte.
    1982. Ceremonial Fertility Sites in Southern California. San Diego Museum of Man.

Meighan, Clement W.
    1978. Obsidian Dates II : A Compendium of the Obsidian Hydration Determinations Made at the UCLA Obsidian Hydration Laboratory. University of California Los Angeles Institute of Archaeology.
    1981. Obsidian Dates III : A Compendium of the Obsidian Hydration Determinations Made at the UCLA Obsidianhydration Laboratory. University of California Institute of Archaeology.

Meighan, Clement W. and Janet L. Scalise.
    1988. Obsidian Dates, IV : A Compendium of the Obsidian Hydration Determinations Made at the UCLA Obsidian Hydration Laboratory Monograph 29. University of California Los Angeles Institute of Archaeology.

Merriam, C. Hart and Lowell John Bean.
    1993. The Dawn of the World: Myths and Tales of the Miwok Indians of California. University of Nebraska Press.

Meunch, David and Polly Schaafsma.
    1995. Images in Stone. Browntrout Publishing Company.

Mixco, Mauricio J.and Miguel Del Barco.
    n.d. Cochimi and Proto-Yuman : Lexical and Syntactic Evidence for a New Language Family in Lower California. University of Utah Anthropological Papers.

Moratto, Michael.
    1984. California Archaeology.

Olson, Stanley J.
    n.d. Osteology for the Archaeologist. Harvard University. Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology. Papers, Vol 56, No 3-5.

Orton, Clive, Paul Tyers, and Alan Vince, editors.
    1993. Pottery in Archaeology Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press

Parsons, Gary A.
    1987. California Lithic Studies. Archives of California Prehistory ; No 11. Coyote Press.

Pearsall, Deborah M.
    1989. Paleoethnobotany : A Handbook of Procedures. Academic Press.

Rughe, Justin.
    1992. Drake in Central California, 1579 : Unraveling One of California's Great Historical Mysteries.

Sanger, Kay K. and Clement W. Meighan.
    1990. Discovering Prehistoric Rock Art: A Recording Manual

Sheena, Steven.
    1997. Quantifying Archaeology. Edinburgh University Press.

Smith, Gerald A.
    Indian rock art of southern California with selected petroglyph catalog.

Sonin, Bill and M. Leigh Marymoor.
    1995. California Rock Art : An Annotated Site Inventory and Bibliography. Occasional Papers, No 17.

Steele, Susan.
    1990. Agreement and Anti-Agreement : A Syntax of Luiseno. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Kluwer Academic Pub.

True, Delbert.
    Archaeological investigations at Molpa, San Diego County, California.

True, Delbert, Rosemary Pankey, and Claude N. Warren.
    1992. Tom-Kav : A Late Village Site in Northern San Diego County, California, and Its Place in the San Luis Rey Complex Anthropological Records, Vol 30, University of California Press.
 

Van Tiburg, Jo Anne.
    1983. Ancient Images on Stone : Rock Art of the Californians.

Vane, Sylvia Brakke, Lowell John Bean, Joan Berman, and Lee Davis.
    1990. California Indians : Primary Resources : A Guide to Manuscripts, Artifacts, Documents, Serials, Music, and Illustrations. Ballena Press , No. 36.

White, Philip M. and Stephen D. Fitt.
    1997.Bibliography of the Indians of San Diego County : The Kumeyaay, Diegueno, Luiseno, and Cupeno. Native American Bibliography Series, No 21.Scarecrow Press.

Whitley, David S.
    1996. A Guide to Rock Art Sites : Southern California and Southern Nevada. Mountain Press.

Wlodarski, Robert James.
    A bibliography of Catalina Island investigations and excavations (1850-1980).

 

Links:

  1. The American Cultural Resources Association (ACRA) serves the needs of the cultural resources industry.
  2. Anderson Flat Archaeological Project
  3. Antelope Valley Indian Museum
  4. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
  5. Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association
  6. Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians courtesy of UC Berkeley.
  7. Books, Papers, Videos on Hupa Language
  8. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians
  9. California Environmental Quality Act
  10. Central California Charmstones A site dedicated to the typology of this artifact type including a bibliography.
  11. Changing Views of California Indians
  12. Coastal Maritime Archaeology Resources (CMAR)
  13. CMSA  The California Mission Studies Association's home page.
  14. Contract Archaeology Companies - California
  15. Costanoan Ohlone Indian Canyon Resource.
  16. CA PARKS AND RECREATION web site for archaeological concerns for California State Parks.
  17. Cypress Replacement Project
  18. Edward Harvey Davis Photo Gallery
  19. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara
  20. Fort Ross Global Village
  21. Historical Images at Berkeley
  22. The History of How California Became a State
  23. History of the Bay Area
  24. The Indians of San Diego County: the Kumeyaay, Diegueño, Luiseño, Cupeño, and Cahuilla
  25. Malki Museum
  26. Native Americans of Orange County
  27. Native Basketry
  28. PACIFIC COAST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
  29. Rancho Agua Hedionda
  30. San Diego County Historical Agencies
  31. San Diego Historical Society
  32. THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN
  33. SCA NET  Home page for the Society of California Archaeology.
  34. Summary of Archaeological Collections from San Miguel Island and San Nicolas Island, California Curated at LACMNH.
  35. The Vasco Adobe: Archaeology of a 19th-Century Basque Ranch House in Contra Costa County, California