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Apple, Rebecca McCorkle

1999	Introduction to Recent Archaeological Investigations at the Salton Sea Test Base, Imperial County, California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Bard, James C. and Colin I. Busby

1988	New Perspectives on the Archaeological Sequence in the Coyote Hills Area of the Southern San Francisco Bay: Sites, Components, and Pieces of the Puzzle [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Basgall, Mark E.

1982	Archaeology and Linguistics: Pomoan Prehistory as Viewed from Northern Sonoma County, California [JCGBA].

Baumhoff, M.A.

1980	The Evolution of Pomo Society [JCGBA].

Beck, Charlotte and George T. Jones

1992	New Directions? Great Basin Archaeology in the 1990s [JCGBA].

Breschini, Gary S.

1983	The History of Archaeological Classification in Central California [on this website].

Breschini, Gary S. and Trudy Haversat

2002	Radiocarbon Dating and Cultural Models on the Monterey Peninsula, California [PCASQ - PDF].
2008	A Revised Culture Sequence for the Monterey Peninsula Area, California [PCASQ - PDF].

Bull, Charles

1983	Shaking the Foundations: The Evidence for San Diego Prehistory [SDSU Casual Papers - PDF].

Busby, Colin I., John M. Findlay and James C. Bard

1979	A Culture Resource Overview of the Bureau of Land Management Coleville, Bodie, Benton, and Owens Valley Planning Units, California [BLM - PDF].

Cartier, Robert

1988	The Middle Period in the Southern San Francisco Bay Area [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Chartkoff, Joseph L.

1992	Development of Theory in California Archaeology, 1966-1991 [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
1996	The Culture of California Archaeology and Cultural Resistance to Synthesis [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
2002	General Patterns, Questions, and the Archaic [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
2003	Collective Labor in Economic Productivity and Sociopolitical Complexity: A Comparison between California and the Midwest [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Cleland, James H.

1988	A Tentative Culture-Historical Sequence for the Mokelumne River Canyon [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
1999	From Paleoindian to Protohistoric: The Chronology of Human Occupation of Salton Sea Test Base [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Clewlow, C. William, Jr.

1981	Rock Art Research in the Great Basin: Some Historical Comments [JCGBA].

Connolly, Thomas J.

1988	A Culture-Historical Model for the Klamath Mountain Region of Southwest Oregon and Northern California [JCGBA].

Cook, John R. and Scott G. Fulmer (eds.)

1981	The Archaeology of the McCain Valley Study Area in Eastern San Diego County, California: A Scientific Class II Cultural Resource Inventory.

Coombs, Gary B.

1979	The Archaeology of the Northeast Mojave Desert.
1979	The Archaeology of the Western Mojave [BLM - PDF].

Elliott, Evan

2011	Bringing the Hill Patwin into the North Coast Ranges Cultural Region [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Elsasser, Albert B.

1960	The History of Culture Classification in California [on this website].

Erlandson, Jon M.

1993	California's Coastal Prehistory: A Circum-Pacific Perspective [SCA Proceedings].
1993	The Historical Development of Santa Barbara Channel Archaeology [SCA Proceedings].
1997	An Archaeology of the Pacific Rim [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
1999	The Evolution of the "Barbareño" Chumash [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
1999	Problems in Paradigms: Cultural "Complexity" in Coastal California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Erlandson, Jon M., Michael A. Glassow, Charles Rozaire and Don Morris

1992	4,000 Years of Human Occupation on Santa Barbara Island, California [JCGBA].

Erlandson, Jon M. and Madonna L. Moss

1997	Breaking Down the Border: Towards a More Integrated Archaeology of the Southern Northwest Coast [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Ezell, Paul H.

1983	A New Look at the San Dieguito Culture [SDSU Casual Papers - PDF].

Fagan, Brian M.

1990	California in World Prehistory [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Farber, Alfred

1985	Alternative Approaches to the Shasta Complex and Adjacent Expressions: Assemblages, Cultural Ecology, and Taxonomies [JCGBA].

Fitzgerald, Richard T. and Terry L. Jones

1999	The Milling Stone Horizon Revisited: New Perspectives from Northern and Central California [JCGBA].

Fowler, Don D.

1980	History of Great Basin Anthropological Research, 1776-1979 [JCGBA].
1993	Hermes Trismegistus in Eden: Praxis, Process & Postmodern Archaeology [SCA Proceedings].

Fredrickson, David A.

1974	Cultural Diversity in Early Central California: A View from the North Coast Ranges [JCA].
1974	Reply to King and Gerow [JCA].
1992	Archaeological Method as Problem Solving: A Retrospective View [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
1996	Obsidian Studies, Social Boundaries, Theoretical Models, and the Development of Tribelet Structure in Central California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
2003	Pretriblet Cultures in the North Coast Ranges, California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Gallegos, Dennis R.

1985	Early Man and a Cultural Chronology for Batiquitos Lagoon [SDSU Casual Papers - PDF].
1995	A Review and Synthesis of the Archaeological Record for the Lower San Diego River Valley [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Garfinkel, Alan P.

2007	Rose Spring Point Chronology and Numic Population Movements in Eastern California [PCASQ - PDF].

Gerow, Bert A.

1974	Comments on Fredrickson's "Cultural Diversity" [JCA].

Glassow, Michael A.

1997	California Archaeology in an International Context [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Goldberg, Carol, Michelle Titus, Roy Salls and Rainer Berger

2000	Site Chronology on San Clemente Island, California [PCASQ - PDF].

Grenda, Donn R, Richard Ciolek-Torello and Jeffrey H. Altschul (editors)

2014	People in a Changing Land: The Archaeology and History of the Ballona in Los Angeles, California (5 vols.).

Hall, Matthew C. and James P. Barker

1981	Background to Prehistory of the El Paso/Red Mountain Desert Region [BLM - PDF].

Hamusek-MvGann, Blossom, Eric W. Ritter and Julie Burcell

1998	Living on the Edge: Archaeological Signatures of the Eastern Shasta Valley Foothills, Siskiyou County, California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Hanna, David C.

1983	A Major Challenge to "San Dieguito" and "La Jolla" [SDSU Casual Papers - PDF].

Hattori, Eugene M. and Allen G. Pastron

1993	An Alternative View of California Archaeology [SCA Proceedings].

Heizer, Robert F., and Franklin Fenenga

1939	Archaeological Horizons in Central California [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Jenkins, Dennis L. and Claude N. Warren

1984	Obsidian Hydration and the Pinto Chronology in the Mojave Desert [JCGBA].

Kaldenberg, Russell L.

2005	A Short History of Archaeological Inquiry at China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station between about 1930 and the Early 1950s [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Kelly, Robert L.

1992	Introduction: The Future of Great Basin Anthropology [JCGBA].

King, Chester, Dennis G. Casebier, Matthew C. Hall and Carol Rector

1976	Background to Historic and Prehistoric Resources of the East Mojave Desert Region.

King, Thomas F.

1974	Flight to New Pigeonholes: Comments on Fredrickson [JCA].

Koerper, Henry C. and Christopher E. Drover

1984	Horizon and Tradition on the Southern California Coast: A Rejoinder [JCGBA].

Koerper, Henry C. and Roger D. Mason

2004	The Late Prehistoric Coastal Orange County Hokan Hypothesis: A Commentary [JCGBA].

Laylander, Don

2006	The Regional Consequences of Lake Cahuilla [SDSU SOAP].

Lightfoot, Kent G.

1996	The Construction of Frontiers and Boundaries in Northern California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Love, Bruce and Mariam Dahdul

2002	Desert Chronologies and the Archaic Period in the Coachella Valley [PCASQ - PDF].

McGuire, Kelly R. and William R. Hildebrandt

1994	The Possibilities of Women and Men: Gender and the California Milling Stone Horizon [JCGBA].

Meighan, Clement W.

2000	Overview of the Archaeology of San Clemente Island, California [PCASQ - PDF].

Moratto, Michael J.

2004	Looking Back: Advances in California Archaeology Since 1984 [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Pilling, Arnold R.

1955	Relationships of Prehistoric Culture of Coastal Monterey County, California [Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers - PDF].

Porcasi, Judith F. and Paul Porcasi

2002	New Dates and Data from Archaic Malibu with Some Regional Considerations [PCASQ - PDF].

Pribish, Reinhard

n.d.	The Prehistory of Owens Valley [FarWestern.com].
n.d.	8,000 Years of Change at Morro Bay: An Archaeological Perspective [FarWestern.com].

Raab, L. Mark

1996	Debating Prehistory in Coastal Southern California: Resource Intensification Versus Political Economy (JCGBA].
2000	Remodeling California Prehistory: Notes on the Changing Roles of Ethnohistory in Archaeology [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
2004	Intensification, Climatic Stress, and Warfare: Competitive Selection in Lake Holocene Coastal Southern California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Raab, L. Mark, Katherine Bradford and Andrew Yatsko

1994	Advances in Southern Channel Islands Archaeology: 1983 to 1993 (JCGBA].

Reeder, Leslie A. and Torben C. Rick

2009	New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Anacapa Island, California: Preliminary Research at ANI-2 [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Rick, Torben

2001	Introduction: New Directions in Channel Islands Archaeology [PCASQ - PDF].
1991	Archaeology of Santa Barbara Island: Past Projects and Future Directions [PCASQ - PDF].
2006	A 5,000-Year Record of Coastal Settlement on Anacapa Island, California [JCGBA].

Riddell, F.A., Charles "Brad" McKee, Alex Krieger, Bill Wallace, Paul Ezell, Frank Fenenga, Bert Gerow, Martin Baumhoff, David A. Fredrickson, Al Mohr, Claude Warren, Jim Bennyhoff and Paul Schumacher

1984	Some Thoughts on California Archaeology: An Historical Perspective.

Rogers, Malcolm J.

1929	The Stone Art of the San Dieguito Plateau [American Anthropologist - PDF].
1940	California Archaeological Horizons [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Schneider, Joan S., Matthew C. Hall and Marla Mealey

2006	Recovery, Synthesis, and Reporting: 1990s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Cultural Resources Inventory Conducted by the Archaeological Research Unit, University of California, Riverside [California State Parks].

Schaefer, Jerry

1994	The Challenge of Archaeological Research in the Colorado Desert: Recent Approaches and Discoveries [JCGBA].

Stickel, E. Gary and Lois J. Weinman-Roberts

1980	An Overview of the Cultural Resources of the Western Mojave Desert [BLM - PDF].

Sundahl, Elaine

1992	Cultural Patterns and Chronology in the Northern Sacramento River Drainage [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
1998	Patterns of Prehistory on the McCloud River [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Sutton, Mark Q.

1993	A Perspective on Archaeological Research in the California Deserts: 1960 to 1990 [SCA Proceedings].
1996	The Current Status of Archaeological Research in the Mojave Desert (JCGBA].
2005	People and Language: Defining the Takic Expansion into Southern California [PCASQ - PDF].
2008	The Del Rey Tradition and Its Place in the Prehistory of Southern California [PCASQ - PDF].
2011	The Palomar Tradition and Its Place in the Prehistory of Southern California [PCASQ - PDF].
2013	The Development of Cultural Sequences in the Mojave Desert: The Contributions of Malcolm J. Rogers [PCASQ].
2015	Revisions to the Palomar Tradition Model in Southern California Prehistory [PCASQ].
2017	Chasing Ghosts? Rethinking the Prehistory of the Late Holocene Mojave Desert [PCASQ].

Sutton, Mark Q. and David D. Earle

2017	The Desert Serrano of the Mojave River [PCASQ - PDF].

Sutton, Mark Q. and Jill K. Gardner

2006	Reconceptualizing the Encinitas Tradition of Southern California [PCASQ - PDF].

Wallace, William J.

1977	A Half Century of Death Valley Archaeology [JCA].

Warren, Claude N.

1980	The Archaeology and Archaeological Resources of the Amargosa-Mojave Basin Planning Units [BLM - PDF].
1984	Horizon and Tradition on the Southern California Coast: A Comment [JCGBA].
1985	Garbage about the Foundations: A Comment on Bull's Assertions [SDSU Casual Papers - PDF].

Warren, Claude N., Martha Knack and Elizabeth von Till Warren

1980	A Cultural Resource Overview for the Amargosa-Mojave Basin Planning Units [BLM - PDF].

Warren, Elizabeth von Till, Robert H. Crabtree, Claude N. Warren, Martha Knack and Richard McCarty

1981	A Cultural Resources Overview of the Colorado Desert Planning Units [BLM - PDF].

Weide, Margaret L. and James Barker

1974	Background to Prehistory of the Yuha Desert Region [BLM - PDF].

Wirth Associates

1978	Overview of the Prehistory and History of Inland San Diego County.

Woodman, Craig F.

1990	Prehistoric Resource Use and Settlement in the Lower Santa Ynez River Basin: Introduction and Overview to the Union Oil Archaeological Mitigation Project [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Allen, Mark W.

2007	Three Archaeological Landscapes of the Mojave B Range, Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake: Pilot Knob, Indian Spring, and North Eagle Crags [PCASQ - PDF].

Altschul, Jeffrey H.

1991	The Deep Creek Site Revisited [SCA Proceedings].

Altschul, Jeffrey H., Richard Ciolek-Torrello, Donn R. Grenda, Jeffrey A. Homburg, Su Benaron and Anne Q. Stoll

2005	Ballona Archaeology: A Decade of Multidisciplinary Research [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Altschul, Jeffrey H., John G. Douglass, Richard Ciolek-Torrello, Sarah Van Galder, Benjamin R. Vargas, Kathleen L. Hull, Donn R. Grenda, Jeffrey Homburg, Manuel Palacios-Fest, Steven Shelley, Angela Keller and Davis Maxwell

2007	Life at the Nexus of Wetlands and Coastal Prairie, West Los Angeles [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Alvarez, Susan Harding

1997	Isolated Cultural Landscapes through Time: A View of Central California Coast Range Human Response to the Landscape and Heritage Management [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Arnold, Jeanne E.

1990	Lithic Resource Control and Economic Change in the Santa Barbara Channel Region [JCGBA].
1990	An Archaeological Perspective on the Historic Settlement Pattern on Santa Cruz Island [JCGBA].

Basgall, Mark E.

1979	To Trade, or Not to Trade: A Pomo Example [JCGBA].

Beck, Roman F.

1993	Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Los Peñasquitos Canyon [SCA Proceedings].

Beckett, Nathan, Rachel Kelley, Steven McGannon, and Dustin McKenzie

2014	Casting a Wide Net: Simulated Fishing along the Coast of Central California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Bertrando, Ethan

2006	Hunter-Gatherers in the Morro Bay Watershed 3650 Years Ago: Settlement, Subsistence and Technology during an Archaeological Point in Time [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Bettinger, Robert L.

1976	The Development of Pinyon Exploitation in Central Eastern California [JCA].
1977	Reply to McGuire and Garfinkel [JCA].
1980	Obsidian Hydration Dates for Owens Valley Settlement Categories [JCGBA].

Bloomer, William and Denise Jaffke

2009	A High Sierran Nexus: Hot Obsidian Data from Donner Memorial State Park [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Bocek, Barbara

1988	Sites and Site Clusters: Middle Period Archaeology of the San Francisquito Drainage [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
1992	Subsistence, Settlement and Tribelet Territories on the Eastern San Francisco Peninsula [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Bouey, Paul D.

1979	Population Pressure and Agriculture in Owens Valley [JCGBA].
1987	Appendix: Source Analysis of Obsidian Samples [JCGBA].
2000	Source Determination of Archaeological Obsidian Specimens, San Clemente Island [PCASQ - PDF].

Brady, Ryan T.

2007	Prehistoric Wetland Use in the Mono Lake Basin, Eastern California [Master's thesis, CSU Sacramento - PDF].

Bramlette, Allan G., and Katherine M. Dowdall

1989	Differences in Site Constituents at Salt Point: Alternative Explanations [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Brandoff-Kerr, Joan E. and Dan Reeves

2011	Dirt Roads, Ancient Landscapes, and Early Sites [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Burns, Gregory R., Susan Cook Talcott, Kathryn Demps, Jason L. Edmonds, John M. Lambert, Andrew Tremayne, Jelmer W. Eerkens and Eric J. Bartelink

2012	Isotopic Evidence for Changing Residential Patterns through the Middle to late Holocene in Central California [SCA Proceedings].

Byrd, Brian F.

1998	Harvesting the Littoral Landscape during the Late Holocene: New Perspectives from Northern San Diego County (JCGBA].

Byrd, Brian F. and Seetha Reddy

1999	Collecting and Residing Near the Shore: The Role of Small and Large Sites in Settlement Reconstruction [PCASQ - PDF].

Caputo, Jane M.

1991	Something out of Nothing: The Significance of Marginal Sites [SCA Proceedings].

Chartkoff, Joseph L.

1989	Exchange Systems in the Archaic of Coastal Southern California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
1991	The Collord Site (CA-Sis-S15): A Proto-Karok Village at Happy Camp [SCA Proceedings].
2005	California's Tobacco Farmers and the Problem of Explaining the Absence of Food Production [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
2007	Models of Resource Acquisition, Transfer, Movement, and Utilization [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
2010	The Finch Site and the Root Site: A Comparison of Riverine Adaptations by Late-Period Hunter-Gatherers in California and Michigan [SCA Proceedings].

Christensen, Don D., Jerry Dickey and David Lee

1987	The Granite Mountains Archaeological Survey: Prehistoric Land Use in the East Mojave Desert, California [PCASQ - PDF].

Compas, Lynn

2003	Prehistoric and Ethnographic Land Use at Lake Almanor: A Tribute to Dr. Makoto Kowta [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Davis, Betty S.

1981	Indian, Sea otter, and Shellfish Interrelationships.

Dowdall, Katherine M.

1991	Possible Correlations between Environmental Fluctuations and Obsidian Use at Five Mono County Sites [SCA Proceedings].

Dugas, Michael, Amy Huberland, and Robert Weaver

2014	Yuki Settlement on the Black Butte River Revisited [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Earle, David D.

2005	The Mojave River and the Central Mohave Desert: Native Settlement, Travel, and Exchange in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries [JCGBA].

Eerkens, Jelmer and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

2002	Transition from Geophyte to Seed Processing: Evidence for Intensitification from Thermal Features near China Lake, Northern Mojave Desert [PCASQ - PDF].

Eerkens, Jelmer W. and Amy M. Spurling

2008	Obsidian Acquisition and Exchange Networks: A Diachronic Perspective on Households in the Owens Valley [JCGBA].

Erlandson, Jon M.

1985	Early Holocene Settlement and Subsistence in Relation to Coastal Paleogeography: Evidence from CA-SBA-1807 [JCGBA].

Faull, Mark R.

2006	Emerging Efforts to Define the Coso Obsidian Economic Exchange System in the Rose, Fremont and Antelope Valleys of the Western Mojave Desert, California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
2007	The Coso Obsidian Economy and Possible Links to Village Establishment and Cultural Transition in the Rose Valley of Eastern California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Fitzgerald, Richard T.

1990	Of Milling and Mashing: Subsistence Change at CA-SCl-65 (The Saratoga Site) [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Fitzgerald, Richard T., Terry L. Jones and Adella Schroth

2005	Ancient Long Distance Trade in Western North America: New AMS Radiocarbon Dates from Southern California. [Journal of Archaeological Science 32:423-434.]

Fleming, Kaylene

1997	Cultural Landscape Study of Lost Valley, San Diego County, California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
1998	Cultural Landscape: A Theoretical Model [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Foster, Karen Rasmussen

1999	The Red Beach Site and 3,000 Years of Coastal Settlement Change [PCASQ - PDF].

Gardner, Jill K.

2009	Population Regression or Aggregation? Changing Settlement Patterns in the Western Mojave Desert during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Garfinkel, Alan P. and Roger A. Cook

1980	Radiocarbon Dating of Pinyon Nut Exploitation in Eastern California [JCGBA].

Giambastiani, Mark Alan

2004	Prehistoric Obsidian Use on the Volcanic Tableland and Its Implications for Settlement Patterns and Technological Change in the Western Great Basin [Ph.D. dissertation, UC Davis - PDF].

Glassow, Michael A.

1979	An Evaluation of Models of Inezeño Chumash Subsistence and Economics [JCGBA].

Grenda, Donn R. and Jeffrey H. Altschul

1994	The Evolution of Coastal Settlements: A View from the Ballona Lagoon [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Griffin, S. Joe

2010	A Signature of Calamity: Late Prehistoric Settlement Pattern Shifts around Clear Lake, Lake County, California [SCA Proceedings].

Gross, G. Timothy

1990	The Farm Drop Zone Sites, Edwards Air Force Base, California: Implications for Regional Settlement Pattern [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Hale, Micah J.

2006	Processing Economies, Coastal Settlement, and Intensification in Northern San Diego County [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Haney, Jefferson W.

1992	Acorn Exploitation in the Eastern Sierra Nevada [JCGBA].

Hector, Susan M.

1983	Hunter-Gatherer Sedentary Activities [SDSU Casual Papers - PDF].

Hildebrandt, William R.

1984	Late Period Hunting Adaptations on the North Coast of California [JCGBA].
1997	The Relative Importance of Lacustrine and Estuarine Resources to Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Populations: A View from Southern Santa Clara Valley, California (JCGBA].
1997	Late Holocene Use of Wetland Habitats in Central California: A Reply to Jones (JCGBA].

Hildebrandt, William R. and Allika Ruby

2006	Prehistoric Pinyon Exploitation in the Southwestern Great Basin: A View from the Coso Range [JCGBA].

Horne, Stephen and Janine McFarland

1991	The Sierra Madre Area: Boundaries, Site Catchments, Archaeology Old and New [SCA Proceedings].

Hull, Kathleen L.

1988	Obsidian Studies in Yosemite National Park: Preliminary Observations [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Hunt, David

2004	The Power of the Acorn: Late Holocene Settlement and Resource Distribution in the Central Sierra [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Hylkema, Mark G.

1993	Some Perspectives on Upland Settlement Patterns of the Central Diablo Range of California [SCA Proceedings].

Jackson, Thomas L.

1988	Geologic Setting and Prehistoric Settlement Patterning in the Central Sierra Nevada, California [JCGBA].
1988	Amending Models of Trans-Sierran Obsidian Tool Production and Exchange [JCGBA].

James, Steven R.

1983	Surprise Valley Settlement and Subsistence: A Critical Review of the Faunal Evidence [JCGBA].

Johnson, Jerald Jay

2003	The Yahi and Southern Yana: An Example of Conservatism, Genetic Isolation, and an Impoverished Resource Base [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Jones, Terry L.

1997	Lakes and Estuaries Reconsidered: A Comment on Lacustrine Resource Intensification in the Southern Santa Clara Valley, California (JCGBA].

Jones, Terry L., William R. Hildebrandt, Douglas J. Kennett and Judith F. Porcasi

2004	Prehistoric Marine Mammal Overkill in the Northeastern Pacific: A Review of New Evidence [JCGBA].

Joslin, Terry L., Laura Leach-Palm and Eric Wohlgemuth

2006	Prehistoric Plant Use in the Cuyama Valley: The Importance of Small Sites [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Kennett, Douglas J., John R. Johnson, Torben C. Rick, Don P. Morris and Juliet Christy

2000	Historic Chumash Settlement on Eastern Santa Cruz Island, Southern California [JCGBA].

Koerper, Henry C., Jonathon E. Ericson, Donald L. Fife, M. Steven Shackley, Clay A. Singer and John A. Minch

1992	Jasper Procurement, Trade, and Control in Orange County: Comments and Observations [JCGBA].

Larson, William E.

2010	The Smith Creek Rockshelter: Results of Test Excavations at a Rockshelter Located in Humboldt County, California [SCA Proceedings].
2012	Down by the River: The Changing Economic Role of Riverine Resources in Owens Valley [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Laylander, Don

1997	Inferring Settlement Systems for the Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of San Diego County, California (JCGBA].
2002	Measuring Settlement Intensity and Dispersion in the Prehistoric Mojave Desert [on this website].
2014	Redundancy, Avoidance, and Ideology in Prehistoric Southern California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Laylander, Don and Lynne E. Christenson

1988	Corral Canyon and Late Prehistoric Exchange in Inland San Diego County, California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Lindstrom, Susan G.

1992	Great Basin Fisherfolk Optimal Diet Breadth Modeling of the Truckee River Prehistoric Subsistence Fishery [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Lubinski, Patrick M.

1999	The Communal Pronghorn Hunt: A Review of Ethnographic and Archaeological Evidence [JCGBA].

Markley, Richard E. and Donna A. Day

1992	Regional Prehistory and California-Great Basin Interaction: An Assessment of Recent Archaeological Studies in the Northern Sierra Nevada [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Mason, Roger D.

2004	The Spatial Organization of Activities at CA-ORA-662 on Pelican Hill in the Newport Coast Area, Orange County, California [PCASQ - PDF].
2014	Trade and Exchange on the Newport Coast, Orange County, California [PCASQ - PDF].

Mason, Roger D. and Mark L. Peterson

2014	Subsistence Remains and Intensification on the Newport Coast, Orange County, California [PCASQ - PDF].

May, Ronald V.

1983	Whatever Happened to Those Lake Cahuilla People: Test Excvations and Implications near Table Mountain, California [SDSU Casual Papers - PDF].

McGuire, Kelly R. and Alan P. Garfinkel

1976	The Development of Pinyon Exploitation in Central Eastern California [JCA].

Mealey, Marla M.

2014	Archaeological Site Data from Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Meighan, Clement W.

1992	Obsidian and "Exchange Systems" [IAOS Bulletin - PDF].

Nelson, Wendy J.

1994	The Nutritional Potential of the Fish Slough Cave Diet [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Noah, Anna C.

1998	Prehistoric Fishing on the San Diego Coast [PCASQ - PDF].

Parker, John

1997	Getting around Theoretical Roadblocks in Cultural Landscape Reconstruction [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Patterson, Brandon and Alex DeGeorgey

2014	The Influence of Trade on the Organization of Lithic Technology [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Perry, Jennifer E.

2004	Resource Intensification and Environmental Variability: Subsistence Patterns in Middle and Late Period Deposits at CA-SBA-225, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California [JCGBA].
2010	Challenging Perceptions of Island Interiors: A Case Study from the Central Valley of Santa Cruz Island [SCA Proceedings].

Peter, Kevin J.

1990	Defining Site Structure Complexity and Its Implications: Examples from Sites in the Santa Ynez River Basin [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Peterson, Robert R., Jr.

1984	Early/Middle Period Subsistence Changes at SBA-1, Rincon Point, Coastal California [JCGBA].

Rick, Torben C. and Jon M. Erlandson

2001	Late Holocene Subsistence Strategies on the South Coast of Santa Barbara Island, California [JCGBA].

Rick, Torben C., Craig E. Skinner, Jon M. Erlandson and René L. Vellanoweth

2001	Obsidian Source Characterization and Human Exchange Systems on California's Channel Islands [PCASQ - PDF].

Robbins-Wade, Mary

1988	Coastal Luiseno: Refining the San Luis Rey Complex [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
1992	Prehistoric Settlement Pattern of Otay Mesa, San Diego County, California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Rogers, Alexander K.

2006	Temporal Patterns of Archaic Land Use in the El Paso Mountains, Kern County, California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Rosenthal, Jeffrey S., William R. Hildebrandt and Jerome H. King

2001	Donax Don't Tell: Reassessing Late Holocene Land Use in Northern San Diego County [JCGBA].

Santy, Jenna and Jelmer W. Eerkens

2010	The Organization of Domestic Space in Late Prehistoric Owens Valley Households [SCA Proceedings].

Schaefer, Jerry and Don Laylander

2014	Prehistoric Archaeological Landscapes of the McCain Valley-Jacumba-Ocotillo Region [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Schlagheck, John

2011	Obsidian Trade at Sand Hill Bluff [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Simms, Steven R.

1985	Pine Nut Use in Three Great Basin Cases: Data, Theory, and a Fragmentary Material Record [JCGBA].

Stevens, Nathan E.

2002	Prehistoric Use of the Alpine Sierra Nevada: Archaeological Investigations at Taboose Pass, Kings Canyon National Park, California [Master's thesis, CSU Sacramento - PDF].
2005	Changes in Prehistoric Land Use in the Alpine Sierra Nevada: A Regional Exploration Using Temperature-Adjusted Obsidian Hydration Rates [JCGBA].

Sutton, Mark Q.

1980	Some Aspects of Kitanemuk Prehistory [JCGBA].
1981	Corrections to "Some Aspects of Kitanemuk Prehistory" [JCGBA].
1993	On the Subsistence Ecology of the "Late Inland Millingstone Horizon" in Southern California [JCGBA].

Sutton, Mark Q. and Matthew R. Des Lauriers

2002	Emerging Patterns of Obsidian Usage in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California [PCASQ - PDF].

Sutton, Mark Q. and Henry C. Koerper

2005	The Middle Holocene Western Nexus: An Interaction Sphere between Southern California and the Northwestern Great Basin [PCASQ - PDF].

Swartz, B.K., Jr.

1960	Evidence for the Indian Occupation of Santa Barbara Island [Ball State University - PDF].

True, D.L. and Georgie Waugh

1981	Archaeological Investigations in Northern San Diego County, California: Frey Creek [JCGBA].
1982	Proposed Settlement Shifts during San Luis Rey Times: Northern San Diego County, California [JCGBA].
1987	Placename Designation in the San Luis Rey Valley: A Cautionary Note [JCGBA].

Tushingham, Shannon and Robert L. Bettinger

2010	Why Foragers Choose Acorns before Salmon: Modeling Back-Loaded vs. Front-Loaded Resources [UC Davis].

Waechter, Sharon A.

2005	Late-Period Resource Intensification in Sierra Valley, Eastern Plumas County: A Response to the Medieval Climatic Anomaly [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Waechter, Sharon A. and William W. Bloomer

2009	Tahoe Reach Revisited: The Latest Pleistocene/Early Holocene in the Tahoe Sierra [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Walsh, Michael R.

2007	A Trout in the Milk: Circumstantial Evidence for Disputed Tenancy at Seep Spring, Northern Mojave Desert [PCASQ - PDF].

Wells, Helen F. and Clarus J. Backes, Jr.

2007	Living on the Edge: Late Prehistoric Foragers on the South Range [PCASQ - PDF].

Whitaker, Adrian R.

2009	Is Resource Depression the Same as Population Depression? Modeling Artiodactyl Population Demographics under Human Predation [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

White, Greg

1998	Resource Abundance and Social Change in Early Northern California I: Rethinking the Lonely Forager Premise [SCA Newsletter - PDF].
1998	Resource Abundance and Social Change in Early Northern California II: The Clear Lake Basin Evidence [SCA Newsletter - PDF].
2005	Environment or Organization: California's Upper Archaic Large Game Spike [SCA Newsletter - PDF].

Williams, Samuel J.

2014	Quantitative Approaches for Identifying Archaeological Site Occupation Types: A Case Study from Late Holocene Mendocino County, California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Wojdak, Elizabeth M.

1993	A Regional Study of Changing Subsistence Strategies at Newport Bay, California [SCA Proceedings].

Woolfenden, Wallace B.

1988	Human Ecological Implications of Migratory Deer Behavior in Sierran Prehistory [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Yatsko, Andrew

1989	Reassessing Archaeological Site Density at San Clemente Island [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
2003	Paleodemographic Change on San Clemente Island during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

York, Andrew

1999	Late Prehistoric Use of the Recessional Shorelines of Lake Cahuilla [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Bickel, Polly McW.

1978	Changing Sea Levels along the California Coast: Anthropological Implications [JCA].
1978	Corrections to Sea Level Article [JCA].

Boxt, Matthew A., L. Mark Raab, Owen K. Davis and Kevin O. Pope

1999	Extreme Late Holocene Climate Change in Coastal Southern California [PCASQ - PDF].

Byrne, Roger

1979	Commentary on "Archaeology and California's Climate" [JCGBA].

Codding, Brian F. and Terry L. Jones

2007	History and Behavioral Ecology during the Middle-Late Transition on the Central California Coast: Findings from the Coon Creek Site (CA-SLO-9), San Luis Obispo County. [JCGBA 27:23-49.]

Dills, Charles E.

1981	Halcyon Bay, an Ancient Estuary?

Engstrom, Wayne

1999	The Nineteenth Century Physical Geography of the Camp Pendleton Coastline [PCASQ - PDF].

Gallegos, Dennis R.

1985	Batiquitos Lagoon Revisited [SDSU Casual Papers - PDF].

Halford, F. Kirk

1999	Archaeology and Environment on the Dry Lakes Plateau, Bodie Hills, California: Hunter-Gatherer Coping Strategies for Holocene Environmental Variability [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Hodges, Charles M.

2014	A Geoarchaeological Landscape Perspective on Early Holocene Rapid and Deep Site Burial on the California Coastal Plain [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Homburg, Jeffery A., Eric C. Brevik, Jeffrey H. Altschul, Anthony R. Orme and Steven D. Shelley

2002	Evolving Holocene Landscapes and Cultural Land Use Patterns in the Ballona Wetlands of Coastal Southern California [SCA Newsletter - PDF].

Jackson, Tom

n.d.	Higher Sea Levels 6000 Years Ago or "When the Surf was Really Up!! [Cabrillo College Archaeological Technology Program].

Jones, Terry L., Gary M. Brown, L. Mark Raab, Janet L. McVickar, W. Geoffrey Spaulding, Douglas J. Kennett, Andrew York and Phillip L. Walker

1999	Environmental Imperatives Reconsidered: Demographic Crises in Western North America during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly. [Current Anthropology 40:137-156.]

Jones, Terry L. and Douglas J. Kennett

1999	Late Holocene Sea Temperatures along the Central California Coast. [Quaternary Research 51:74-82.]

Jones, Terry L. and Al Schwitalla

2008	Archaeological Perspectives on the Effects of Medieval Drought in Prehistoric California. [Quaternary International 188:41-58.]

Koerper, Henry C., John S. Killingley and R.E. Taylor

1985	The Little Ice Age and Coastal Southern California Human Economy [JCGBA].

Laylander, Don

1995	The Chronology of Lake Cahuilla's Final Stand [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
1998	Cultural Hiatus and Chronological Resolution: Simulating the Mono Craters Eruption of ca. A.D. 880 in the Archaeological Record [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Lindström, Susan

1990	Submerged Tree Stumps as Indictors of Mid-Holocene Aridity in the Lake Tahoe Basin [JCGBA].
1992	Submerged Tree Stumps as Indicators of Mid-Holocene Drying Trends within the Lake Tahoe Region [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Moratto, Michael J., Thomas F. King and Wallace B. Woolfenden

1978	Archaeology and California's Climate [JCA].

Morgan, Tony and Linda Scott Cummings

1990	Late Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoenvironmental Conditions in the Lower Santa Ynez River Basin [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Patch, Dorothy and Terry Jones

1984	Paleoenvironmental Change at Elkhorn Slough: Implications for Human Adaptive Strategies [JCGBA].

Pearl, Frederic B. and Michael R. Waters

1999	A Geoarchaeological Assessment of Alluvial Valleys at Camp Pendleton with an Overview of the Important Natural Site Formation Processes [PCASQ - PDF].

Pilloud, Marin A.

2006	The Impact of the Medieval Climatic Anomaly in Prehistoric California: A Case Study from Canyon Oaks, CA-ALA-613/H [JCGBA].

Porcasi, Paul, Judith F. Porcasi and Colin O'Neill

1999	Early Holocene Coastlines of the California Bight: The Channel Islands as Visited by Humans [PCASQ - PDF].

Smith, Brenda D. and James Brock

1999	From Shoreline to Mesquite Dune: Changing Subsistence Strategies at CA-RIV-4754, La Qunita [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Wahoff, Tanya L.

1997	Recent Data on Subsistence and Environmental Change from Southern Santa Rosa Island [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Warren, Claude N. and H.T. Ore

1978	Approach and Process of Dating Lake Mohave Artifacts [JCA].

Wohlgemuth, Eric

2005	The Medieval Climatic Anomaly and Central Sierra Foothill Prehistory [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Wolff, Christopher B., Torben C. Rick and Amanda Aland

2007	Middle Holocene Subsistence and Land Use at Southeast Anchorage, Santa Rosa Island, California [JCGBA].

Yatsko, Andrew

2000	Of Marine Terraces and Sand Dunes: The Landscape of San Clemente Island [PCASQ - PDF].

Bamforth, Douglas B. and Ronald I. Dorn

1988	On the Nature and Antiquity of the Manix Lake Industry [JCGBA].

Barnes, Mark R.

2007	Borax Lake Site Revisited (Yet Again) [Mammoth Trumpet].

Barker, Michael A., Erlinda Burton and W. Morlin Childers

1973	A Preliminary Report on a Burial Excavated in the Yuha Desert of Imperial County, California.

Budinger, Fred E., Jr.

1996	A Search Strategy for Evidence of Early Man in America: A Preliminary Assessment of the Manix Type Section, Central Mojave Desert [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
2000	Modified Lithic Specimens from Lower Member B of the Manix Type Section, Central Mojave Desert, California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Carter, George F.

1996	Early Man at San Diego: A Geomorphic-Archaeological View [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Cassidy, Jim

1997	Investigation into Migrations and Parallel Adaptations along the Pacific Rim [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Dandridge, Debra E.

2006	First Lady of the New World: Arlington Springs Woman [Mammoth Trumpet].

Davis, Emma Lou, Kathryn H. Brown and Jacqueline Nichols

1980	Evaluation of Early Human Activities and Remains in the California Desert [BLM - PDF].

Dempsey, Patrick J.

2009	Calico -- The Olduvai Gorge Connection [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Dolzani, Michael

1987	At Home in the Pleistocene? [Mammoth Trumpet - PDF].

Fitzgerald, Richard T. and Terry L. Jones

2003	On the Weight of the Evidence from Cross Creek: A Reply to Turner. [American Antiquity 68:396-399.]

Hall, Don Alan

1999	In Search of the First Californians [Mammoth Trumpet - PDF].

Hardaker, Christopher

2002	Cultural Resource Management and Really Early Man [SCA Newsletter - PDF].
2009	Calico Redux: Artifacts or Geofacts? [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Heizer, Robert F.

1950	Observations on Early Man in California [Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers - PDF].

Holmes, William H.

1899	Preliminary Revision of the Evidence Relating to Auriferous Gravel Man in California [American Anthropologist - PDF].
1899	Preliminary Revision of the Evidence Relating to Auriferous Gravel Man in California - Second Paper [American Anthropologist - PDF].

James, E. Henry

1996	15,000 Years of Human Trails in the Manix Lake Basin [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Johnson, John R.

n.d.	Ancient Bones May Rewrite History [Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History].
2001	An Informal Update on the Arlington Springs Remains [Friends of America's Past].

Jones, Terry L.

2008	California Archaeological Record Consistent with Younger Dryas Disruptive Event. [Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 105:E109.]

Jones, Terry L., Richard T. Fitzgerald, Douglas J. Kennett, Charles H. Misicek, John L. Fagan, John Sharp and Jon M. Erlandson

2002	The Cross Creek Site (CA-SLO-1797 and its Implications for New World Colonization. [American Antiquity 67:213-230.]

Jones, T. L., R. T. Fitzgerald and J. F. Porcasi

2009

The Cross Creek-Diablo Canyon Complex of South Central California: Mid-latitude Pacific Foragers at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary. [In Maritime Adaptation and Seaside Settlement along the Pacific Coast of North America during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition, edited by Jim Cassidy, Robert Ackerman, and Irina Ponkratova, pp. 169-202. North Pacific Prehistory, vol. 2.]

Kaldenberg, Russell L.

2005	Proboscidian & Equine Petroglyphs? [Mammoth Trumpet - PDF].

Kennett, D. J., J. P. Kennett, G. J. West, J. M. Erlandson, J. R. Johnson, I. L. Hendy, A. West, B. J. Culleton, T. L. Jones and T. W. Stafford, Jr.

2008	Wildfire and Abrupt Ecosystem Disruption on California's Northern Channel Islands at the Allerod-Younger Dryas Boundary (13.0-12.9 ka). [Quaternary Science Review 27:2528-2543.]

Lepper, Brad

2000	Coastal Navigators: The First Americans May Have Come by Water [Mammoth Trumpet].

Lysek, Carol Ann

1999	A Personal View: Older Than We Think [Mammoth Trumpet - PDF].

Merriam, John C.

1906	Recent Cave Exploration in California [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Nawrocki, Stephen P.

1985	Coming of Age in California [Mammoth Trumpet - PDF].

Parkman, E. Breck

2004	Rubbing Rocks, Vernal Pools, and the First Californians: Pursuing the Rancholabrean Hypothesis [SCA Newsletter - PDF].

Payen, Louis A. and R.E. Taylor

1976	Man and Pleistocene Fauna at Potter Creek Cave, California [JCA].

Putnam, F.W.

1906	Evidence of the Work of Man on Objects from Quaternary Caves in California [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Riesenberg, Laura

1985	Research Suggests Early Tools near San Diego [Mammoth Trumpet - PDF].

Warren, Claude N.

1996	Manix Lake Lithic Industry in Historical Perspective [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Whitley, David S., Ronald I. Dorn, Julie Francis, Lawrence L. Loendorf, Thomas Holcomb, Russel Tanner and Joseph Bozovich

1996	Recent Advances in Petroglyph Dating and Their Implications for the Pre-Clovis Occupation of North America [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Wisner, George

1999	Channel Island Woman May Be Oldest Yet [Mammoth Trumpet - PDF].

General Views and Multiple Groups

Achumawi & Atsugewi Athapaskan Cahuilla Chimariko Chumash Costanoan Cupeño Esselen Gabrielino Karok Kawaiisu Kitanemuk Luiseño

Maidu Miwok Modoc Mohave Northern Paiute Owens Valley Paiute Panamint Pomo Quechan Salinan Serrano Shasta

Southern Paiute Tataviam Tipai & Ipai Tubatulabal Wappo Washoe Wintu Wiyot Yana Yokuts Yuki Yurok

Altschul, Jeffrey H. and Joseph A. Ezzo

1995	Ceremony and Warfare along the Lower Colorado River during the Protohistoric Period [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Anonymous

2008	Indian Fishing Contrivances [JCGBA].

Bard, Cephas L.

2006	A Contribution to the History of Medicine in Southern California [JCGBA].

Bean, Lowell John

1975	Power and Its Applications in Native California [JCA].

Blackburn, Thomas

1976	A Query Regarding the Possible Hallucinogenic Effects of Ant Ingestion in South-Central California [JCA].
1999	A "New" Choris Watercolor [JCGBA].
2005	Some Additional Alexander W. Chase Materials [JCGBA].

Boxt, Matthew A. and L. Mark Raab

2000	Puvunga and Point Conception: A Comparative Study of Southern California Indian Traditionalism [JCGBA].

Breschini, Gary S., Trudy Haversat and Tom "Little Bear" Nason

1999	The Sarhentaruc Problem [on this website].

Bright, William

1975	The Alliklik Mystery [JCA].

California Indian Library Collections Project

n.d.	Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians.

Carrico, Richard L.

1977	Portolá's 1769 Expedition and Coastal Native Villages of San Diego County [JCA].

Chever, Edward E.

2005	The Indians of California [JCGBA].

Cohen, Bill

1987	Indian Sandpaintings of Southern California [JCGBA].

Culbert, Janet

1996	Native American Uses of Vernal Pool Plants [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Dexter, Ralph W.

1989	The Putnam-Kroeber Relations in the Development of American Anthropology [JCGBA].

Dick Bissonnette, Linda E.

1999	Indian Names and Naming Practices in the Sierra Nevada Foothills [JCGBA].

Dixon, Keith A.

2000	Comment on "Puvunga and Point Conception..." by Matthew A. Boxt and L. Mark Raab [JCGBA].

Drover, Christopher E.

1980	The Ethnohistory of Turquoise Mining in Southeastern California [JCGBA].

Fowler, Catherine S.

1992	Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics in the Great Basin: Some Proposals for the 1990s [JCGBA].
1995	Mountain Sheep in the Sky: Orion's Belt in Great Basin Mythology [JCGBA].

Fowler, Don D.

1980	History of Great Basin Anthropological Research, 1776-1979 [JCGBA].

Gayton, A.H.

1935	Areal Affiliations of California Folktales [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Gifford, Edward Winslow

1918
1923	Californian Kinship Terminologies [UCPAAE].
1926	Miwok Lineages and the Political Unit in Aboriginal California [American Anthropologist - PDF].
1936	Cultural Relations of the Gila River and Lower Colorado Tribes [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Goldschmidt, Walter R.

1948	Social Organization in Native California and the Origin of Clans [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Greengo, Robert E.

1952	Shellfish Foods of the California Indians [Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers - PDF].

Heizer, Robert F.

1955	Executions by Stoning among the Sierra Miwok and Northern Paiute [Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers - PDF].
1975	Counterfeiters and Shell Currency Manipulators among California Indians [JCA].

Hicks, Frederic

1974	The Influence of Agriculture on Aboriginal Socio-Political Organization in the Lower Colorado River Valley [JCA].

Hollimon, Sandra E.

2004	Bear Shamanism and Social Control in Native California Societies [SCA Newsletter - PDF].

Hudson, Travis

1981	To Sea or Not to Sea: Further Notes on the "Oceangoing" Dugouts of North Coastal California [JCGBA].
1982	The Alliklik-Tataviam Problem [JCGBA].

Hudson, Travis and Thomas Blackburn

1978	The Integration of Myth and Ritual in South-Central California: The "Northern Complex" [JCA].

Hudson, Travis, Georgia Lee and Ken Hedges

1979	Solstice Observers and Observatories in Native California [JCGBA].

Jobson, Robert W. and William R. Hildebrandt

1980	The Distribution of Oceangoing Canoes on the North Coast of California [JCGBA].

Johnson, John R.

2000	The Uniqueness of California's Ethnohistoric Record [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Johnston, Francis J.

1980	Two Southern California Trade Trails [JCGBA].

Judson, Katharine Berry

1912	Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest.

Keeling, Richard

1992	Music and Culture Areas of Native California [JCGBA].

Knack, Martha

1980	Ethnographic Overview of the Amargosa-Mojave Basin Planning Units [BLM - PDF].

Kroeber, A.L.

1904
1905
1907	The Religion of the Indians of California [UCPAAE].
1908	A Mission Record of the California Indians [UCPAAE].
1920	Games of the California Indians [American Anthropologist - PDF].
1922
1927	Disposal of the Dead [American Anthropologist - PDF].
1936	Kinship and History [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Kunkel, P.H.

1977	On Kroeberian and Post-Kroeberian California Ethnology [JCA].

Lawton, Harry W.

1974	Agricultural Motifs in Southern California Indian Mythology [JCA].

Lawton, Harry W. and Philip J. Wilke

1977	The "Watcher's Stage" in Lower Colorado River Indian Agriculture [JCA].

Laylander, Don

2001	The Creation and Flute Lure Myths: Regional Patterns in Southern California Traditions [JCGBA].
2005	Myths about Myths: Clues to the Time Depth of California's Ethnographic Record [SCA Proceedings - PDF].
2006	California' Prehistory as a Remembered Past [JCGBA].

Levi, Jerome Meyer

1978	Wii'ipay: The Living Rocks -- Ethnographic Notes on Crystal Magic among Some California Yumans [JCA].

Lightfoot, Kent G.

2000	Comments on "Puvunga and Point Conception: A Comparative Study of Southern California Indian Traditionalism" by Matthew A. Boxt and L. Mark Raab [JCGBA].

Loeb, Edwin M.

1926	The Creator Concept among the Indians of North Central California [American Anthropologist - PDF].

MacLeod, W. C.

1929	On California Mortuaries [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Merriam, C. Hart

1905	The Indian Population of California [American Anthropologist - PDF].
1908	Totemism in California [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Miller, Jay

1983	Basin Religion and Theology: A Comparative Study of Power (Puha) [JCGBA].

Milliken, Randall

2009	Ethnographic Communities of Spanish-Contact Central California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Minshall, Herbert L.

1983	Geologic Support for the Age Deduced by Aspartic Acid Racemization of a Human Skill Fragment from La Jolla Shores, San Diego, California [SDSU Casual Papers - PDF].

Myers, L. Daniel

1997	Animal Symbolism among the Numa: Symbolic Analysis of Numic Origin Myths (JCGBA].
2001	Myth as Ritual: Reflections from a Symbolic Analysis of Numic Origin Myths [JCGBA].

Okladnikova, E.A.

1983	The California Collection of I.G. Voznesensky and the Problems of Ancient Cultural Connections between Asia and America [JCGBA].

Palmquist, Peter E.

1978	Robert H. Vance: First Photographer of California Indians? [JCA].
1978	Mirror of Our Conscience: Surviving Photographic Images of California Indians Produced before 1860 [JCA].
1979	The California Indian in Three-Dimensional Photography [JCGBA].
1983	The Roberts Collection of California Indian Photographs: A Brief Review [JCGBA].

Parkman, E. Breck

1993	Creating Thunder: The Western Rain-Making Process [JCGBA].

Powers, Stephen

1877

Raab, L. Mark and Matthew A. Boxt

2000	Reply [to Ruyle and Dixon] [JCGBA].

Radcliffe-Brown, A.R.

1935	Kinship Terminologies in California [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Ruyle, Eugene E.

2000	A Comment on "Puvunga and Point Conception: A Comparative Study of Southern California Indian Traditionalism" by Matthew A. Boxt and L. Mark Raab [JCGBA].

Schroth, Adella A.

1996	An Ethnographic Review of Grinding, Pounding, Pulverizing, and Smoothing with Stones [PCASQ - PDF].

Sharp, John

2000	Charmstones: A Summary of the Ethnographic Record [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Smithsonian Institution

n.d.	A Critical Bibliography on North American Indians, for K-12 (California).

Steward, Julian H.

1937	Linguistic Distributions and Political Groups of the Great Basin Shoshoneans [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Strong, William Duncan

1927	An Analysis of Southwestern Society [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Sutton, Mark Q.

1985	The California Salmon Fly as a Food Source in Northeastern California [JCGBA].
1986	Warfare and Expansion: An Ethnohistoric Perspective on the Numic Spread [JCGBA].
1989	Ethnobiological Inferences from Great Basin Oral Tradition [JCGBA].
1993	The Numic Expansion in Great Basin Oral Tradition [JCGBA].

Swezey, Sean L.

1978	Barrett's Armyworm: A Curious Ethnographic Problem [JCA].

Swezey, Sean L. and Robert F. Heizer

1977	Ritual Management of Salmonid Fish Resources in California [JCA].

Timbrook, Jan

2012	Ethnographic Perspectives on Archaeobotany (SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Todt, Donn L.

1997	Cross-Cultural Folk Classifications of Ethnobotanically Important Geophytes in Southern Oregon and Northern California (JCGBA].
Upriver and Downriver: A Gradient of Tobacco Intensification along the Klamath River, California and Oregon (JCGBA].

Underwood, Jackson

2005	Ethnohistoric and Ethnographic Context for the North Baja Pipeline [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Wallace, William J.

1975	Speakers in the Night: California Indian Storytellers [JCA].
1978	The Chuckwalla: A Death Valley Indian Food [JCA].

Washburn, Dorothy K.

1987	The Neighbor Factor: Basket Designs in Northern and Central California [JCGBA].

Waterman, Thomas T.

1909	Analysis of the Mission Indian Creation Story [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Willoughby, Charles C.

1922	Feather Mantles of California [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Yoder, David, Jon Blood and Reid Mason

2005	How Warm Were They? Thermal Properties of Rabbit Skin Robes and Blankets [JCGBA].

Angulo, Jaime de

1974	Achumawi Sketches [JCA].
1975	The Achumawi Life-Force [JCA].

Barter, Eloise Richards

1990	Achumawi and Atsugewi Fishing Gear [JCGBA].

Buckskin, Floyd and Arlene Benson

2005	The Contemporary Use of Psychoactive Mushrooms in Northern California [JCGBA].

Dixon, Roland B.

1905	The Mythology of the Shasta-Achomawi [American Anthropologist - PDF].
1908	Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales [JAFL].
1908	Notes on the Achomawi and Atsugewi Indians of Northern California [American Anthropologist - PDF].
1909	Achomawi Myths [JAFL].

Evans, Nancy H.

1990	Traditions of Sucker Exploitation in the Pit River System: An Ajumawi Example [JCGBA].

Foster, John W.

n.d.	Ahjumawi Fish Traps: Native Fish Traps along the Shore of Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park, Shasta County, California [California State Parks].

Garth, Thomas R., Jr.

1944	Kinship Terminology, Marriage Practices, and Behavior toward Kin among the Atsugewi [American Anthropologist - PDF].
1945	Emphasis on Industriousness among the Atsugewi [American Anthropologist - PDF].

DuBois, Cora A.

1932	Tolowa Notes [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Goddard, Pliny Earle

1903
1904	Hupa Texts [UCPAAE].
1907	Kato Texts [UCPAAE].
1914	Notes on the Chilula Indians of Northwestern California [UCPAAE].
1914	Chilula Texts [UCPAAE].

Gould, R.A.

1975	Ecology and Adaptive Response among the Tolowa Indians of Northwestern California [JCA].

Rust, Horatio N.

1905	The Obsidian Blades of California [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Waterman, Thomas T.

1925	The Village Sites in Tolowa and Neighboring Areas in Northwestern California [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Woodruff, Charles E.

1892	Dances of the Hupa Indians [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Barrrows, David Prescott

1900	The Ethno-Botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California.

Bean, Lowell John, Sylvia Brakke Vane and Jackson Young

1981	The Cahuilla and the Santa Rosa Mountain Region: Places and Their Native American Associations.

Fenenga, Gerrit L. and Eric M. Fisher

1978	The Cahuilla Use of Piyatem, Larvae of the White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata), as Food [JCA].

Kroeber, A.L.

1908	Ethnography of the Cahuilla Indians [UCPAAE].

Lando, Richard and Ruby E. Modesto

1977	Temal Wakhish: A Desert Cahuilla Village [JCA].

Dixon, Roland B.

1910	The Chimariko Indians and Language [UCPAAE].

Applegate, Richard B.

1974	Chumash Placenames [JCA].
1975	The Datura Cult among the Chumash [JCA].
1975	Chumash Narrative Folklore as Sociolinguistic Data [JCA].

Beeler, Madison S. and Kathryn A. Klar

1977	Interior Chumash [JCA].

Bright, William

1975	The Alliklik Mystery [JCA].

Erlandson, Jon M., Torben C. Rick, Douglas J. Kennett and Phillip L. Walker

2001	Dates, Demography, and Disease: Cultural Contacts and Possible Evidence for Old World Epidemics among the Protohistoric Island Chumash [PCASQ - PDF].

Glassow, Michael A.

1979	An Evaluation of Models of Inezeño Chumash Subsistence and Economics [JCGBA].

Haley, Brian D. and Larry R. Wilcoxon

1999	Point Conception and the Chumash Land of the Dead: Revisions from Harrington's Notes [JCGBA].

Heizer, Robert F.

1974	Were the Chumash Whale Hunters? Implications for Ethnography in 1974 [JCA].

Hudson, Travis

1977	Patterns of Chumash Names [JCA].
1982	The Alliklik-Tataviam Problem [JCGBA].

Johnson, John R.

1978	The Trail to Kashtiq [JCA].
1990	Chumash Social Geography: A Quantitative Analysis [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

King, Chester

1975	The Names and Locations of Historic Chumash Villages [JCA].

Timbrook, Jan

1986	Chia and the Chumash: A Reconsideration of Sage Seeds in Southern California [JCGBA].

Timbrook, Jan, John R. Johnson and David D. Earle

1982	Vegetation Burning by the Chumash [JCGBA].

Warren, Claude N.

1977	The Many Wives of Pedro Yanunali [JCA].

Yates, Lorenzo G.

1891	Fragments of the History of a Lost Tribe [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Hudson, Travis

1982	Costanoan Astronomy from the Notes of John P. Harrington [JCGBA].

Kroeber, A.L.

1907	Indian Myths of South Central California [UCPAAE].

Faye, Paul Louis

1928	Pottery from Deep Springs Valley, Inyo County, California [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Simmons, John

2004	Yesterday and Today: Anthropological Research into the Cupeño of Southern California [SCA Proceedings - PDF].

Breschini, Gary S. and Trudy Haversat

1999	Post-Contact Esselen Occupation of the Santa Lucia Mountains [on this website].

Breschini, Gary S., Trudy Haversat and Tom "Little Bear" Nason

1999	The Sarhentaruc Problem [on this website].

Henshaw, H. W.

1890	A New Linguistic Family in California [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Hudson, Travis

1979	A Rare Account of Gabrielino Shamanism from the Notes of John P. Harrington [JCGBA].

Bright, William

1953	The Travels of Coyote: A Karok Myth [Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers - PDF].
1979	A Karok Myth in "Measured Verse": The Translation of a Performance [JCGBA].

Roberts, Helen H.

1932	The First Salmon Ceremony of the Karuk Indians [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Rust, Horatio N.

1905	The Obsidian Blades of California [American Anthropologist - PDF].

Zigmond, Maurice L.

1978	Kawaiisu Basketry [JCA].

Kroeber, A.L.

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1958	A Study of the Material Aspects of Northeastern Maidu Basketry [Ball State University - PDF].

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1904	Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity: Their History, Customs and Traditions.

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1910	The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California.

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Yokuts and Western Mono Social Organization [American Anthropologist - PDF].

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