Lynn H Gamble
Biographic Data
| ID | 105430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn H Gamble |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn H |
| FAMILY NAME | Gamble |
| SIGNATURE | GAMBLE L H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3157-0837 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Navigating cooperative marketplaces
The Chumash Indians from Southern California produced, used, and traded shell beads for approximately 8,000–10,000 years. Their exchange network included an extensive portion of Western North America. Many scholars recognize that some shell beads from the region were used as currency starting at least 1,500 years ago. Substantial evidence for the production and use of these beads exists in the Santa Barbara Channel region, allowing researchers to…
Response to Paul Spickard and Kendall Lovely, “Respecting the Ancestors
News and Notes
Finding Archaeological Relevance during a Pandemic and What Comes After
This article emerged as the human species collectively have been experiencing the worst global pandemic in a century. With a long view of the ecological, economic, social, and political factors that promote the emergence and spread of infectious disease, archaeologists are well positioned to examine the antecedents of the present crisis. In this article, we bring together a variety of perspectives on the issues surrounding the emergence, spread, …
Statement and Commitments from SAA Editors to Change the Underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and Other Scholars from Diverse Backgrounds in Our Publications
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Statement and Commitments from SAA Editors to Change the Underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and Other Scholars from Diverse Backgrounds in Our Publications
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The origin and use of shell bead money in California
Feasting, Ritual Practices, Social Memory, and Persistent Places
Shell mounds have not been investigated as prominent ritual features in southern California, despite evidence to the contrary. The largest extant shell mound in the region is on Santa Cruz Island, measures 270 by 210 m (44,532 m2 in area), is 8 m higher than the terrace it rests on, is covered with 50 house depressions, and dates to 6000-2500 B.P. In the 1920s, three cemeteries were excavated at the top of El Montón; one young woman stood out amo…
Subsistence Practices and Feasting Rites
A High-Precision Chronology for Two House Features at an Early Village Site on Western Santa Cruz Island, California, USA
We establish a high-precision radiocarbon chronology for 2 house depressions at CA-SCRI-333, a large prehistoric village on the western end of Santa Cruz Island, California, USA. SCRI-333 is a large mound composed of a shell midden with more than 50 house depressions evident across its surface. We develop a chronology of occupation and activity for 2 of these depressions (6 and 32) based on a stratified sequence of accelerator mass spectrometry 1…
Pine Nut Processing in Southern California is the Absence of Evidence the Evidence of Absence
Burned rock features that were used for heat, light, the processing of resources, cooking, roasting, ceremonial purposes, and other functions are encountered all over the world. Over 200 prehistoric fire-altered rock (FAR) features have been documented at Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, an area ethnographically occupied by the Kumeyaay Indians along the central coast of San Diego County in southern California. These features are more densely …
The Chumash World at European Contact
When Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash, a people who at that time were among the most advanced hunter-gatherer societies in the world. The Spanish were entertained and fed at lavish feasts hosted by chiefs who ruled over the settlements and who participated in extensive social and economic networks. In this first modern synthesis of data …
The Chumash World at European ContactPower, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers
When Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash, a people who at that time were among the most advanced hunter-gatherer societies in the world. The Spanish were entertained and fed at lavish feasts hosted by chiefs who ruled over the settlements and who participated in extensive social and economic networks. In this modern synthesis of data from t…
The Prehistory of Baja California
The Island Chumash
Culture and climate
The significance of palaeoclimatic change in the emergence of sociopolitical complexity among maritime hunter-gatherers in southern California has been an active subject of debate over the past fifteen years. Interpretations on the timing and nature of palaeoenvironmental change and its relationship to cultural change have shifted as new high-resolution climate records have been reported. I provide evidence for buffering mechanisms that evolved o…
Social differentiation and exchange among the Kumeyaay Indians during the historic period in California
Archaeological Evidence for the Origin of the Plank Canoe in North America
Advanced maritime technology associated with long-distance exchange and intensified resource acquisition has been linked to the development of stratification and greater sociopolitical complexity in the Pacific Rim region. One such example is the emergence of hereditary chiefs among the Chumash Indians of southern California. Plank boats owned by an elite group of wealthy individuals and chiefs were an integral part of an elaborate economic syste…
Further Considerations on the Emergence of Chumash Chiefdoms
Identifying the origins of simple chiefdoms in the archaeological record is a subject that has elicited significant debate among archaeologists working in the Chumash region. We address several significant issues raised by Arnold and Green concerning our interpretations of the mortuary data from the site of Malibu. We argue, contrary to their assertion of ambiguity, that when multiple lines of evidence are considered, a strong case can be made fo…
Fact or Forgery
An Integrative Approach to Mortuary Analysis
Although most archaeologists recognize that valuable information about the social lives of ancient people can be obtained through the study of burial practices, it is clear that the symbolic nature of burial rituals makes interpreting their social significance a hazardous enterprise. These analytical difficulties can be greatly reduced using a research strategy that draws upon the strengths of a broad range of conceptually and methodologically in…
The Chumash World at European ContactPower, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers
When Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash, a people who at that time were among the most advanced hunter-gatherer societies in the world. The Spanish were entertained and fed at lavish feasts hosted by chiefs who ruled over the settlements and who participated in extensive social and economic networks. In this modern synthesis of data from t…
An Integrative Approach to Mortuary Analysis
Although most archaeologists recognize that valuable information about the social lives of ancient people can be obtained through the study of burial practices, it is clear that the symbolic nature of burial rituals makes interpreting their social significance a hazardous enterprise. These analytical difficulties can be greatly reduced using a research strategy that draws upon the strengths of a broad range of conceptually and methodologically in…
Archaeological Evidence for the Origin of the Plank Canoe in North America
Advanced maritime technology associated with long-distance exchange and intensified resource acquisition has been linked to the development of stratification and greater sociopolitical complexity in the Pacific Rim region. One such example is the emergence of hereditary chiefs among the Chumash Indians of southern California. Plank boats owned by an elite group of wealthy individuals and chiefs were an integral part of an elaborate economic syste…
Culture and climate
The significance of palaeoclimatic change in the emergence of sociopolitical complexity among maritime hunter-gatherers in southern California has been an active subject of debate over the past fifteen years. Interpretations on the timing and nature of palaeoenvironmental change and its relationship to cultural change have shifted as new high-resolution climate records have been reported. I provide evidence for buffering mechanisms that evolved o…
Feasting, Ritual Practices, Social Memory, and Persistent Places
Shell mounds have not been investigated as prominent ritual features in southern California, despite evidence to the contrary. The largest extant shell mound in the region is on Santa Cruz Island, measures 270 by 210 m (44,532 m2 in area), is 8 m higher than the terrace it rests on, is covered with 50 house depressions, and dates to 6000-2500 B.P. In the 1920s, three cemeteries were excavated at the top of El Montón; one young woman stood out amo…
Social differentiation and exchange among the Kumeyaay Indians during the historic period in California
Finding Archaeological Relevance during a Pandemic and What Comes After
This article emerged as the human species collectively have been experiencing the worst global pandemic in a century. With a long view of the ecological, economic, social, and political factors that promote the emergence and spread of infectious disease, archaeologists are well positioned to examine the antecedents of the present crisis. In this article, we bring together a variety of perspectives on the issues surrounding the emergence, spread, …
The origin and use of shell bead money in California
Subsistence Practices and Feasting Rites
A High-Precision Chronology for Two House Features at an Early Village Site on Western Santa Cruz Island, California, USA
We establish a high-precision radiocarbon chronology for 2 house depressions at CA-SCRI-333, a large prehistoric village on the western end of Santa Cruz Island, California, USA. SCRI-333 is a large mound composed of a shell midden with more than 50 house depressions evident across its surface. We develop a chronology of occupation and activity for 2 of these depressions (6 and 32) based on a stratified sequence of accelerator mass spectrometry 1…
Fact or Forgery
Statement and Commitments from SAA Editors to Change the Underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and Other Scholars from Diverse Backgrounds in Our Publications
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Statement and Commitments from SAA Editors to Change the Underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and Other Scholars from Diverse Backgrounds in Our Publications
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Pine Nut Processing in Southern California is the Absence of Evidence the Evidence of Absence
Burned rock features that were used for heat, light, the processing of resources, cooking, roasting, ceremonial purposes, and other functions are encountered all over the world. Over 200 prehistoric fire-altered rock (FAR) features have been documented at Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, an area ethnographically occupied by the Kumeyaay Indians along the central coast of San Diego County in southern California. These features are more densely …
Further Considerations on the Emergence of Chumash Chiefdoms
Identifying the origins of simple chiefdoms in the archaeological record is a subject that has elicited significant debate among archaeologists working in the Chumash region. We address several significant issues raised by Arnold and Green concerning our interpretations of the mortuary data from the site of Malibu. We argue, contrary to their assertion of ambiguity, that when multiple lines of evidence are considered, a strong case can be made fo…
An Integrative Approach to Mortuary Analysis
Although most archaeologists recognize that valuable information about the social lives of ancient people can be obtained through the study of burial practices, it is clear that the symbolic nature of burial rituals makes interpreting their social significance a hazardous enterprise. These analytical difficulties can be greatly reduced using a research strategy that draws upon the strengths of a broad range of conceptually and methodologically in…
Social differentiation and exchange among the Kumeyaay Indians during the historic period in California
Archaeological Evidence for the Origin of the Plank Canoe in North America
Advanced maritime technology associated with long-distance exchange and intensified resource acquisition has been linked to the development of stratification and greater sociopolitical complexity in the Pacific Rim region. One such example is the emergence of hereditary chiefs among the Chumash Indians of southern California. Plank boats owned by an elite group of wealthy individuals and chiefs were an integral part of an elaborate economic syste…
Further Considerations on the Emergence of Chumash Chiefdoms
Identifying the origins of simple chiefdoms in the archaeological record is a subject that has elicited significant debate among archaeologists working in the Chumash region. We address several significant issues raised by Arnold and Green concerning our interpretations of the mortuary data from the site of Malibu. We argue, contrary to their assertion of ambiguity, that when multiple lines of evidence are considered, a strong case can be made fo…
Fact or Forgery
Culture and climate
The significance of palaeoclimatic change in the emergence of sociopolitical complexity among maritime hunter-gatherers in southern California has been an active subject of debate over the past fifteen years. Interpretations on the timing and nature of palaeoenvironmental change and its relationship to cultural change have shifted as new high-resolution climate records have been reported. I provide evidence for buffering mechanisms that evolved o…
The Island Chumash
The Prehistory of Baja California
The Chumash World at European Contact
When Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash, a people who at that time were among the most advanced hunter-gatherer societies in the world. The Spanish were entertained and fed at lavish feasts hosted by chiefs who ruled over the settlements and who participated in extensive social and economic networks. In this first modern synthesis of data …
The Chumash World at European ContactPower, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers
When Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash, a people who at that time were among the most advanced hunter-gatherer societies in the world. The Spanish were entertained and fed at lavish feasts hosted by chiefs who ruled over the settlements and who participated in extensive social and economic networks. In this modern synthesis of data from t…
Pine Nut Processing in Southern California is the Absence of Evidence the Evidence of Absence
Burned rock features that were used for heat, light, the processing of resources, cooking, roasting, ceremonial purposes, and other functions are encountered all over the world. Over 200 prehistoric fire-altered rock (FAR) features have been documented at Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, an area ethnographically occupied by the Kumeyaay Indians along the central coast of San Diego County in southern California. These features are more densely …
A High-Precision Chronology for Two House Features at an Early Village Site on Western Santa Cruz Island, California, USA
We establish a high-precision radiocarbon chronology for 2 house depressions at CA-SCRI-333, a large prehistoric village on the western end of Santa Cruz Island, California, USA. SCRI-333 is a large mound composed of a shell midden with more than 50 house depressions evident across its surface. We develop a chronology of occupation and activity for 2 of these depressions (6 and 32) based on a stratified sequence of accelerator mass spectrometry 1…
Subsistence Practices and Feasting Rites
Feasting, Ritual Practices, Social Memory, and Persistent Places
Shell mounds have not been investigated as prominent ritual features in southern California, despite evidence to the contrary. The largest extant shell mound in the region is on Santa Cruz Island, measures 270 by 210 m (44,532 m2 in area), is 8 m higher than the terrace it rests on, is covered with 50 house depressions, and dates to 6000-2500 B.P. In the 1920s, three cemeteries were excavated at the top of El Montón; one young woman stood out amo…
Statement and Commitments from SAA Editors to Change the Underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and Other Scholars from Diverse Backgrounds in Our Publications
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Statement and Commitments from SAA Editors to Change the Underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and Other Scholars from Diverse Backgrounds in Our Publications
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The origin and use of shell bead money in California
Finding Archaeological Relevance during a Pandemic and What Comes After
This article emerged as the human species collectively have been experiencing the worst global pandemic in a century. With a long view of the ecological, economic, social, and political factors that promote the emergence and spread of infectious disease, archaeologists are well positioned to examine the antecedents of the present crisis. In this article, we bring together a variety of perspectives on the issues surrounding the emergence, spread, …
News and Notes
Response to Paul Spickard and Kendall Lovely, “Respecting the Ancestors
Navigating cooperative marketplaces
The Chumash Indians from Southern California produced, used, and traded shell beads for approximately 8,000–10,000 years. Their exchange network included an extensive portion of Western North America. Many scholars recognize that some shell beads from the region were used as currency starting at least 1,500 years ago. Substantial evidence for the production and use of these beads exists in the Santa Barbara Channel region, allowing researchers to…
History (16 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Ethnology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (6 works)