Michael A Glassow
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 209665 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael A Glassow |
| NOMBRES | Michael A |
| APELLIDO | Glassow |
| FIRMA | GLASSOW M A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0688-3655 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 151 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1967 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Occupation of Western Santa Cruz Island’s Interior Between 4,700 and 3,200 B.C
Investigations of two inland sites on western Santa Cruz Island containing red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) midden strata provides insight into aspects of settlement systems between 4,700 and 3,200 B.P. Oxygen isotope analysis of mussel (Mytilus californianus) shells revealed that both sites were occupied during the summer and fall. Artifacts and floral and faunal remains indicate that CA-SCRI-796 probably was a residential base whereas CA-SCRI-7…
Small Islands and Marginality
As the smallest of California’s Channel Islands, Santa Barbara Island has received limited attention from archaeologists. A United States National Park Service project designed to assess its 19 known sites evolved into an island-wide survey that increased the number to 63 sites that date between 4000 and 600 years ago. Most are small shell and lithic scatters, although some are larger shell middens with greater faunal and artifact diversity. Thei…
Issues in the identification of umbones in California mussel shell assemblages
The forest and the trees
Reconsidering evidence of human impacts
Maritime to Mountains
Few sites dating to the Early Period are found in the interior of Santa Barbara County. Most are defined by their assemblages of milling stones. CA-SBA-3950, however, has been dated by accelerator mass spectrometry and radiometric dating to about 6,900–6,100 cal B.P. It is a buried deposit composed almost exclusively of marine and estuarine shell. A recent investigation of the site entailed exposure of a profile revealing cultural deposits occurr…
Three Paleocoastal Lithic Sites on Santa Cruz Island, California
Paleocoastal sites, dated between ∼13,000 and 8000 cal yr BP, are relatively abundant on California's Northern Channel Islands but rare on the largest island of Santa Cruz. Here we describe three lithic sites containing chipped-stone crescents and, in one case, a stemmed Channel Island Barbed point fragment. Elsewhere on the islands, datable sites containing crescents are either terminal Pleistocene or early Holocene in age. Two of the lithic sit…
Proxy Measurements of California Mussel Valve Length
Archaeologists studying shell assemblages from prehistoric sites along the Pacific coast of North America have been interested in the influences of collecting intensity and environmental variability on California mussel (Mytilus californianus) size. To determine the variation in mussel size within a shell assemblage, researchers have developed a variety of proxies of mussel valve length based on measurements of morphological features occurring at…
Eventful Times
Charles Eugene Rozaire (1927–2016)
Charles Rozaire 2003. Photograph by Trudy Haversat and Gary S. Breschini.Charles Rozaire, an archaeologist who was Curator of Archaeology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County from 19
Response to “Coastal Versus Interior
Erlandson raises two issues of concern: our definition of “interior” and our focus on sites post-dating the earliest few millennia of human occupation of the Channel Islands. The first relates to h
Reply to Braje and Erlandson
Although Braje and Erlandson express concern with my inclusion of Santa Cruz Island sites containing small quantities of red abalone shells with red abalone middens on the other Channel Islands, doing so is justified because of the discrete period of time during which they occur. They also feel that I should have expanded the scope of my paper to include consideration of relationship between sea otters and red abalone, but this was beyond the int…
Bayesian 14C analysis, formation processes, and accumulation rates of the Prisoners Harbor shell midden and village complex, Santa Cruz Island, California
Prehistoric Settlement in Island Interiors
On California's Channel Islands, a rich body of scholarship has emerged in which the focus has been marine resources and their roles in colonization and the development of complex societies. Although this orientation has been crucial to elucidating the cultural significance of the islands, the terrestrial dimensions of island occupation have been neglected by comparison. Our research on Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the Channel Islands, is an…
Chronology of Red Abalone Middens on Santa Cruz Island, California, and Evidence for Subsistence and Settlement Change
Red abalone middens on Santa Cruz Island, California, are conspicuous because they contain the shells of red abalone, a large marine gastropod, even though mussel shells are the most abundant by weight. Recently obtained radiocarbon dates push back the time interval of the island's red abalone middens to ca. 6200 cal B.C., with the bulk of them dating between 5000 and 3300 cal B.C. Faunal remains from two sites indicate that subsistence on marine…
From Obscurity to Notoriety
Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology
Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology." The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 8(3), pp. 448–449
Red abalone collecting and marine water temperature during the Middle Holocene occupation of Santa Cruz Island, California
Early Settlement Systems in the Middle Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County, California
Although still scanty, recent archaeological investigation in the central Santa Ynez Valley of Santa Barbara County, California, has revealed evidence of occupation dating prior to 5000 cal BP. The most definitive evidence comes from a site overlooking the Lake Cachuma reservoir and another 1.5 km north of the Santa Ynez River. More circumstantial evidence comes from a series of sites along the Lake Cachuma shoreline and a site overlooking a sout…
Evaluating the Economic Significance of Sharks, Skates, and Rays (Elasmobranchs) in Prehistoric Economies
Weighing vs. Counting Shellfish Remains
Mason et al. (1998) argue in a recent article that weight as a form of data quantification in the analysis of shellfish remains should be replaced with estimates of the Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) based on identification of “nonrepetitive” elements (NRE) such as the hinge of a bivalve. Their comparisons of the two forms of shell data quantification lack relevance, and they fail to recognize difficulties in identifying nonrepetitive elemen…
Coastal Adaptations near Point Conception, California, with Particular Regard to Shellfish Exploitation
Point Conception, California, has long been recognized as an environmental transition zone for both terrestrial and marine life forms occupying central and southern California. Recent archaeological investigations above and below Point Conception have revealed a number of differences in the archaeological records of the respective regions. Late Period coastal middens north of Point Conception contain higher densities of shellfish remains and smal…
Archaeology
Cultural Resource Management and Archaeological Research
Cultural resource management studies, which provide archaeological information for planning purposes, are currently burgeoning in American archaeology. A general approach is developed which aims at bringing such studies into conformity with legal requirements and the high standards of modern archaeological research. This approach is founded on the precept that cultural resource management cannot attain its management goals without solid research …
Issues in Evaluating the Significance of Archaeological Resources
The evaluation of the significance of archaeological resources, mandated by federal, state, and local statutes, has forced American archaeologists to justify why sites or their contents should be preserved. The currently popular approach toward evaluation emphasizes determination of the relevance of archaeological resources to regional research problems. However, this approach fails to recognize that resources have values to research problems not…
Coastal Adaptations near Point Conception, California, with Particular Regard to Shellfish Exploitation
Point Conception, California, has long been recognized as an environmental transition zone for both terrestrial and marine life forms occupying central and southern California. Recent archaeological investigations above and below Point Conception have revealed a number of differences in the archaeological records of the respective regions. Late Period coastal middens north of Point Conception contain higher densities of shellfish remains and smal…
Weighing vs. Counting Shellfish Remains
Mason et al. (1998) argue in a recent article that weight as a form of data quantification in the analysis of shellfish remains should be replaced with estimates of the Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) based on identification of “nonrepetitive” elements (NRE) such as the hinge of a bivalve. Their comparisons of the two forms of shell data quantification lack relevance, and they fail to recognize difficulties in identifying nonrepetitive elemen…
Cultural Resource Management and Archaeological Research
Cultural resource management studies, which provide archaeological information for planning purposes, are currently burgeoning in American archaeology. A general approach is developed which aims at bringing such studies into conformity with legal requirements and the high standards of modern archaeological research. This approach is founded on the precept that cultural resource management cannot attain its management goals without solid research …
Red abalone collecting and marine water temperature during the Middle Holocene occupation of Santa Cruz Island, California
Evaluating the Economic Significance of Sharks, Skates, and Rays (Elasmobranchs) in Prehistoric Economies
Issues in Evaluating the Significance of Archaeological Resources
The evaluation of the significance of archaeological resources, mandated by federal, state, and local statutes, has forced American archaeologists to justify why sites or their contents should be preserved. The currently popular approach toward evaluation emphasizes determination of the relevance of archaeological resources to regional research problems. However, this approach fails to recognize that resources have values to research problems not…
Prehistoric Settlement in Island Interiors
On California's Channel Islands, a rich body of scholarship has emerged in which the focus has been marine resources and their roles in colonization and the development of complex societies. Although this orientation has been crucial to elucidating the cultural significance of the islands, the terrestrial dimensions of island occupation have been neglected by comparison. Our research on Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the Channel Islands, is an…
The Ceramics of Huistla, a West Mexican Site in the Municipality of Etzatlán, Jalisco
Test excavations at the site of Huistla in Jalisco, Mexico, yielded a series of ceramic types which is similar to types or wares found in the coastal lowland strip of Nayarit and Sinaloa. These affiliations indicate an occupation during a period sometime between about A.D. 800 and 1200. A reappraisal of the Aztatlán complex, recently divided into a series of local phases by Kelley, Winters, and Grosscup, leaves the impression that, while subdivis…
Chronology of Red Abalone Middens on Santa Cruz Island, California, and Evidence for Subsistence and Settlement Change
Red abalone middens on Santa Cruz Island, California, are conspicuous because they contain the shells of red abalone, a large marine gastropod, even though mussel shells are the most abundant by weight. Recently obtained radiocarbon dates push back the time interval of the island's red abalone middens to ca. 6200 cal B.C., with the bulk of them dating between 5000 and 3300 cal B.C. Faunal remains from two sites indicate that subsistence on marine…
Proxy Measurements of California Mussel Valve Length
Archaeologists studying shell assemblages from prehistoric sites along the Pacific coast of North America have been interested in the influences of collecting intensity and environmental variability on California mussel (Mytilus californianus) size. To determine the variation in mussel size within a shell assemblage, researchers have developed a variety of proxies of mussel valve length based on measurements of morphological features occurring at…
Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology
Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology." The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 8(3), pp. 448–449
Considerations in Estimating Prehistoric California Coastal Populations
Archaeologists are constantly faced with the problem of estimating population numbers of the social units they study. After a brief survey of some of the methods used in population estimations, particularly in California, attention is focused, in this paper, on a population model proposed by Robert Ascher. Nine variables which comprise the basis of his model are considered individually, and as a result of this analysis the precision with which th…
Small Islands and Marginality
As the smallest of California’s Channel Islands, Santa Barbara Island has received limited attention from archaeologists. A United States National Park Service project designed to assess its 19 known sites evolved into an island-wide survey that increased the number to 63 sites that date between 4000 and 600 years ago. Most are small shell and lithic scatters, although some are larger shell middens with greater faunal and artifact diversity. Thei…
Early Settlement Systems in the Middle Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County, California
Although still scanty, recent archaeological investigation in the central Santa Ynez Valley of Santa Barbara County, California, has revealed evidence of occupation dating prior to 5000 cal BP. The most definitive evidence comes from a site overlooking the Lake Cachuma reservoir and another 1.5 km north of the Santa Ynez River. More circumstantial evidence comes from a series of sites along the Lake Cachuma shoreline and a site overlooking a sout…
Occupation of Western Santa Cruz Island’s Interior Between 4,700 and 3,200 B.C
Investigations of two inland sites on western Santa Cruz Island containing red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) midden strata provides insight into aspects of settlement systems between 4,700 and 3,200 B.P. Oxygen isotope analysis of mussel (Mytilus californianus) shells revealed that both sites were occupied during the summer and fall. Artifacts and floral and faunal remains indicate that CA-SCRI-796 probably was a residential base whereas CA-SCRI-7…
Charles Eugene Rozaire (1927–2016)
Charles Rozaire 2003. Photograph by Trudy Haversat and Gary S. Breschini.Charles Rozaire, an archaeologist who was Curator of Archaeology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County from 19
The Ceramics of Huistla, a West Mexican Site in the Municipality of Etzatlán, Jalisco
Test excavations at the site of Huistla in Jalisco, Mexico, yielded a series of ceramic types which is similar to types or wares found in the coastal lowland strip of Nayarit and Sinaloa. These affiliations indicate an occupation during a period sometime between about A.D. 800 and 1200. A reappraisal of the Aztatlán complex, recently divided into a series of local phases by Kelley, Winters, and Grosscup, leaves the impression that, while subdivis…
Considerations in Estimating Prehistoric California Coastal Populations
Archaeologists are constantly faced with the problem of estimating population numbers of the social units they study. After a brief survey of some of the methods used in population estimations, particularly in California, attention is focused, in this paper, on a population model proposed by Robert Ascher. Nine variables which comprise the basis of his model are considered individually, and as a result of this analysis the precision with which th…
Archeology
American AnthropologistVolume 72, Issue 6 p. 1547-1548 Free Access ARCHEOLOGY: A Coastal Chumash Village: Excavation of Shisholop, Ventura County, California. Roberta S. Greenwood and R. O. Browne. Michael Glassow, Michael Glassow University of California, Santa BarbaraSearch for more papers by this author Michael Glassow, Michael Glassow University of California, Santa BarbaraSearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1970 h…
Cultural Resource Management and Archaeological Research
Cultural resource management studies, which provide archaeological information for planning purposes, are currently burgeoning in American archaeology. A general approach is developed which aims at bringing such studies into conformity with legal requirements and the high standards of modern archaeological research. This approach is founded on the precept that cultural resource management cannot attain its management goals without solid research …
Issues in Evaluating the Significance of Archaeological Resources
The evaluation of the significance of archaeological resources, mandated by federal, state, and local statutes, has forced American archaeologists to justify why sites or their contents should be preserved. The currently popular approach toward evaluation emphasizes determination of the relevance of archaeological resources to regional research problems. However, this approach fails to recognize that resources have values to research problems not…
Archaeology
Coastal Adaptations near Point Conception, California, with Particular Regard to Shellfish Exploitation
Point Conception, California, has long been recognized as an environmental transition zone for both terrestrial and marine life forms occupying central and southern California. Recent archaeological investigations above and below Point Conception have revealed a number of differences in the archaeological records of the respective regions. Late Period coastal middens north of Point Conception contain higher densities of shellfish remains and smal…
Weighing vs. Counting Shellfish Remains
Mason et al. (1998) argue in a recent article that weight as a form of data quantification in the analysis of shellfish remains should be replaced with estimates of the Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) based on identification of “nonrepetitive” elements (NRE) such as the hinge of a bivalve. Their comparisons of the two forms of shell data quantification lack relevance, and they fail to recognize difficulties in identifying nonrepetitive elemen…
Evaluating the Economic Significance of Sharks, Skates, and Rays (Elasmobranchs) in Prehistoric Economies
Early Settlement Systems in the Middle Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County, California
Although still scanty, recent archaeological investigation in the central Santa Ynez Valley of Santa Barbara County, California, has revealed evidence of occupation dating prior to 5000 cal BP. The most definitive evidence comes from a site overlooking the Lake Cachuma reservoir and another 1.5 km north of the Santa Ynez River. More circumstantial evidence comes from a series of sites along the Lake Cachuma shoreline and a site overlooking a sout…
Red abalone collecting and marine water temperature during the Middle Holocene occupation of Santa Cruz Island, California
Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology
Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology." The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 8(3), pp. 448–449
Bayesian 14C analysis, formation processes, and accumulation rates of the Prisoners Harbor shell midden and village complex, Santa Cruz Island, California
Prehistoric Settlement in Island Interiors
On California's Channel Islands, a rich body of scholarship has emerged in which the focus has been marine resources and their roles in colonization and the development of complex societies. Although this orientation has been crucial to elucidating the cultural significance of the islands, the terrestrial dimensions of island occupation have been neglected by comparison. Our research on Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the Channel Islands, is an…
Chronology of Red Abalone Middens on Santa Cruz Island, California, and Evidence for Subsistence and Settlement Change
Red abalone middens on Santa Cruz Island, California, are conspicuous because they contain the shells of red abalone, a large marine gastropod, even though mussel shells are the most abundant by weight. Recently obtained radiocarbon dates push back the time interval of the island's red abalone middens to ca. 6200 cal B.C., with the bulk of them dating between 5000 and 3300 cal B.C. Faunal remains from two sites indicate that subsistence on marine…
From Obscurity to Notoriety
Three Paleocoastal Lithic Sites on Santa Cruz Island, California
Paleocoastal sites, dated between ∼13,000 and 8000 cal yr BP, are relatively abundant on California's Northern Channel Islands but rare on the largest island of Santa Cruz. Here we describe three lithic sites containing chipped-stone crescents and, in one case, a stemmed Channel Island Barbed point fragment. Elsewhere on the islands, datable sites containing crescents are either terminal Pleistocene or early Holocene in age. Two of the lithic sit…
Proxy Measurements of California Mussel Valve Length
Archaeologists studying shell assemblages from prehistoric sites along the Pacific coast of North America have been interested in the influences of collecting intensity and environmental variability on California mussel (Mytilus californianus) size. To determine the variation in mussel size within a shell assemblage, researchers have developed a variety of proxies of mussel valve length based on measurements of morphological features occurring at…
Eventful Times
Charles Eugene Rozaire (1927–2016)
Charles Rozaire 2003. Photograph by Trudy Haversat and Gary S. Breschini.Charles Rozaire, an archaeologist who was Curator of Archaeology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County from 19
Response to “Coastal Versus Interior
Erlandson raises two issues of concern: our definition of “interior” and our focus on sites post-dating the earliest few millennia of human occupation of the Channel Islands. The first relates to h
Reply to Braje and Erlandson
Although Braje and Erlandson express concern with my inclusion of Santa Cruz Island sites containing small quantities of red abalone shells with red abalone middens on the other Channel Islands, doing so is justified because of the discrete period of time during which they occur. They also feel that I should have expanded the scope of my paper to include consideration of relationship between sea otters and red abalone, but this was beyond the int…
Issues in the identification of umbones in California mussel shell assemblages
The forest and the trees
Reconsidering evidence of human impacts
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