It is now widely accepted that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere are causing higher global atmospheric temperatures. However, there is still a …

High-resolution archaeological and paleoenvironmental records from California's Channel
Islands provide a unique opportunity to examine potential relationships between climatically …

The detection of trends in ecosystems depends upon (1) a good description of the
foundation or benchmark against which changes are measured and (2) a distinction …

Abstract Crania from the Channel Island area of southern California were examined for
evidence of traumatic injuries. Well‐healed depressed fractures in the outer table of the …

The Chumash of the Santa Barbara Channel region were among the most economically and
politically complex hunter–gatherer cultures of the New World. In recent decades, rich …

The study of marine plankton has traditionally focused on those or ganisms that appeared to
have obvious ecological significance in un derstanding the major patterns of biological …

Anthropologists have long debated the relative importance of cultural, biological, and
historical factors in the origins and maintenance of different patterns of violence. Much of the …

THE instability of the Northern Hemisphere glacial climate over the past 100 kyr has been
revealed by at least 20 brief warm (interstadial) episodes, called Dansgaard–Oeschger …

A maize‐based iron‐and protein‐deficient diet is commonly cited as the most important
cause of porotic hyperostosis among American Indian agriculturalists. An alternative to this …

Evidence amassed in Troubled Times indicates that, much like in the modern world,
violence was not an uncommon aspect of prehistoric dispute resolution. From the …