Late Pleistocene archaeological discovery models on the Pacific Coast of North America

D McLaren, D Fedje, Q Mackie, LG Davis… - …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Pacific coast of North America is a hypothesized route by which the earliest
inhabitants of the Americas moved southwards around the western margin of the Cordilleran …

A Circum-Pacific perspective on the origin of stemmed points in North America

J Pratt, T Goebel, K Graf, M Izuho - PaleoAmerica, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Western Stemmed and Paleocoastal technocomplexes are prevalent in
western North America. A working hypothesis states they are associated with the late …

Soils and terrestrial sediments on the seafloor: Refining archaeological paleoshoreline estimates and paleoenvironmental reconstruction off the California coast

AE Gusick, J Maloney, TJ Braje, GJ Retallack… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
On global, regional, and local scales, sea level histories and paleoshoreline reconstructions
are critical to understanding the deep history of human adaptations in island and coastal …

Chipped-Stone Crescents from the Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene of Far Western North America and the Transverse Projectile Point Hypothesis

DS Amick - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2024 - Springer
Crescents are a distinctive component of several terminal Pleistocene–early Holocene (TP–
EH) toolkits in the Far West, including the concave-based projectile point techno-complex …

Re-evaluating terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene settlement patterns with Chirp subbottom data from around California's Northern Channel Islands

TJ Braje, J Maloney, A Gusick, JM Erlandson… - World …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT California's Northern Channel Islands contain an incredible record of terminal
Pleistocene and Early Holocene human occupation. Since the hunter-gatherer-fishers who …

Defining maritime cultural landscapes in California

AE Gusick, T Dodds, D Jaffke, M Meniketti… - California …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Defining a maritime cultural landscape relies on recognizing both the landscape and
seascape as integral to maritime societies. While this concept has been part of …

Climate change, cultural adaptations, and lower coastal plain occupations of Georgia and Florida from the early to middle Holocene: Extrapolating spatial trends into …

JWC Hale, EG Garrison - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2019 - Elsevier
Predictive modeling for high probability zones for detection of submerged prehistoric sites
remains an integral part of this subdiscipline. It typically relies on a combination of …

Emerging technologies in the search for the submerged cultural landscapes of the Pacific continental shelf

AE Gusick, J Maloney, RB King, TJ Braje - Offshore Technology …, 2019 - onepetro.org
As applications for offshore renewable energy projects increase, state and federal land
managers have become concerned over potential impacts to cultural heritage resources …

Low-density lithic scatter sites and the distribution of toolstone on Santa Rosa Island, Alta California

CS Jazwa, AE Gusick, DK McKenzie… - California …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Recent surveys on California's northern Channel Islands have highlighted the ubiquity of
small, low-density lithic scatters across coastal terraces and interior ridgelines. These sites …

Horizon scanning: survey and research priorities for cultural, historical, and paleobiological resources of Santa Cruz Island, California

TC Rick, TJ Braje, JM Erlandson, KM Gill, L Kirn… - Western North American …, 2018 - BioOne
Santa Cruz Island contains a remarkable array of cultural and biological resources and a
rich tradition of research across the social and biological sciences and humanities. Given …