Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Origins, environment, and ecology -- The archaeology of a goodly ilande / Terry L. Jones and Jennifer E. Perry -- A land by the sea / Jon M. Erlandson -- A land impacted? The Younger-Dryas Boundary (YDB) event in California / Terry L. Jones and Douglas J. Kennett -- A land of diversity: genetic insights into ancestral origins / John R. Johnson, Cara Monroe, Brian Kemp, and Joseph G. Lorenz -- A land of many people: population dynamics as context and catalyst / Kathleen L. Hull -- A land of many seasons: bioarchaeology and the medieval climatic anomaly hypothesis in Central California / Terry L. Jones and Al W. Schwitalla -- A land of work: foraging behavior and ecology / Brian F. Codding, Douglas W. Bird, and Terry L. Jones -- A land of prestige / William R. Hildebrandt and Kelly McGuire -- A land of fire: anthropogenic burning on the central coast of California / Rob Cuthrell, Chuck Striplen, Mark Hylkema, and Kent G. Lightfoot -- Part II: Social dimensions of the past -- A land of power: the materiality of wealth, knowledge, authority, and the supernatural / Lynn H. Gamble -- A land of violence / Mark W. Allen -- A land visited: reviewing the case for Polynesian contact in Southern California / Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar -- A land of style: a quantitative and cultural transmission approach to understanding Coso rock art / Jelmer W. Eerkens, Rebecca Dinkel, and Carol Ormsbee -- A land of vision and dreams / Tamara K. Whitley and David S. Whitley -- A land of boundaries / David W. Robinson, Michelle Wienhold, and Wendy Whitby -- A land of many genders / Daniel Murley and Sandra Hollimon -- A land of ethnogenesis: material culture, power, and identity / Barbara L. Voss -- A land of cultural pluralism: case studies from California's colonial frontiers / Tsim D Schneider, Sara L Gonzalez, Kent G. Lightfoot, Lee M. Panich and Matthew A Russell -- A land of inequality / Adrian Praetzellis and Mary Praetzellis -- A land of many archaeologists: archaeology with native Californians / Desire�e Rene�e Martinez -- A land of many perspectives / Jennifer E. Perry and Terry L. Jones.

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