Daniel O Larson
Biographic Data
| ID | 235693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel O Larson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | O Larson |
| SIGNATURE | LARSON D O |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Missions, Missionaries, and Native Americans: Long-Term Processes and Daily Practices by Maria F. Wade
Compositional Characterization of Prehistoric Ceramics: A New Approach
The Evolution of Anasazi Ceramic Production and Distribution: Compositional Evidence from a Pueblo III Site in South-Central Utah
We start from the premise that ceramic evolution created the paste-compositional and formal diversity of archaeological ceramic assemblages. After discussing alternative models of formal and compositional diversity in ceramic assemblages, we examine an assemblage from an Anasazi site in southern Utah from which 206 sherds were characterized by neutron activation analysis. The assemblage is remarkably diverse compositionally, which indicates that …
Methodology of Comparison in Evolutionary Archaeology
Evolutionary archaeology needs methods for recognizing how selective retention of cultural variation shaped the archaeological record. One approach that has not yet been exploited fully is to derive adaptive hypotheses from evolutionary design arguments, then to test the hypotheses' predictions by comparing two or more segments of the archaeological record. In order to encourage further development of comparative methods, we discuss aspects of th…
Geophysical surveys of stratigraphically complex Island California sites: New Implications for Household Archaeology
Ground-penetrating radar and other geophysical techniques are known to produce useful data when deposits are crisply structured, as in the case of sub-surface masonry walls or large ditches. New studies of Californian coastal sites find the methods are effective in tracing the less sharp distinctions that define clay and sand house floors within these large and dense hunter-gatherer middens
Medieval Climatic Anomaly and Punctuated Cultural Evolution in Coastal Southern California
Only in the last few years have high-resolution paleoclimatic data become available from coastal southern California. Recent research in the California Channel Islands, drawing on some of these data, attributes settlement disruptions, disease, and violence to maritime subsistence distress attendant to elevated sea temperatures in the period from A.D. 1150 to 1300. A broad range of paleoenvironmental, archaeological, and human osteological data su…
Population Growth, Agricultural Intensification, and Culture Change among the Virgin Branch Anasazi, Nevada
Virgin Branch Anasazi settlement pattern data are examined to determine the extent to which agricultural practices may have been intensified along the Muddy and Virgin rivers of southern Nevada between A.C. 100 and 1150. It is argued that as population levels increase among arid-land hunters and gatherers there is an inevitable decline in the ratio between the quantities of wild resources and a region's human population. In response to such imbal…
Risk, Climatic Variability, and the Study of Southwestern Prehistory: An Evolutionary Perspective
Two recent developments in southwestern archaeology are brought together in this paper. First, theoreticians have begun to argue that the archaeological record should be viewed as the product of selection-driven evolution. Second, tree-ring research has produced a highly detailed history of climate for a large area of the northern Southwest. We view the record of climatic oscillations and extreme events as a record of the strength of selection fa…
California Climatic Reconstructions
ords reveal that over the centuries people living in California have experienced many climatically induced events. Today's conditions of water rationing, increased electric bills, depressed segments of the agricultural economy, and a high unemployment rate are, in part, a direct result of prolonged drought. Ever-increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other trace gases, the natural processes of climatic variability, and a proj…
Missionization among the Coastal Chumash of Central California: A Study of Risk Minimization Strategies
Anthropologists have long been interested in missionization, acculturation, and political subjugation of traditional peoples. In recent years scholars have generated voluminous amounts of data on Spanish colonialism and its effects on the native population of the Americas. This article specifically examines the missionization of the Chumash occupying the coastal region of central California. Although the abandonment of Chumash villages occurred o…
Impacts of Climatic Variabiity and Population Growth on Virgin Branch Anasazi Cultural Developments
Two major drought episodes, A.D. 1000 to 1015 and A.D. 1120 to 1150, contributed to significant change in adaptive strategies of the Virgin Branch Anasazi, a prehistoric population that occupied the southwestern Great Basin between A.D. 100 and A.D. 1150. The first extreme climatic event promoted the adoption of several alternative buffering strategies including intensive agricultural practices, increased reliance on storage, and the organization…
Missionization among the Coastal Chumash of Central California: A Study of Risk Minimization Strategies
Anthropologists have long been interested in missionization, acculturation, and political subjugation of traditional peoples. In recent years scholars have generated voluminous amounts of data on Spanish colonialism and its effects on the native population of the Americas. This article specifically examines the missionization of the Chumash occupying the coastal region of central California. Although the abandonment of Chumash villages occurred o…
Medieval Climatic Anomaly and Punctuated Cultural Evolution in Coastal Southern California
Only in the last few years have high-resolution paleoclimatic data become available from coastal southern California. Recent research in the California Channel Islands, drawing on some of these data, attributes settlement disruptions, disease, and violence to maritime subsistence distress attendant to elevated sea temperatures in the period from A.D. 1150 to 1300. A broad range of paleoenvironmental, archaeological, and human osteological data su…
Risk, Climatic Variability, and the Study of Southwestern Prehistory: An Evolutionary Perspective
Two recent developments in southwestern archaeology are brought together in this paper. First, theoreticians have begun to argue that the archaeological record should be viewed as the product of selection-driven evolution. Second, tree-ring research has produced a highly detailed history of climate for a large area of the northern Southwest. We view the record of climatic oscillations and extreme events as a record of the strength of selection fa…
Compositional Characterization of Prehistoric Ceramics: A New Approach
Impacts of Climatic Variabiity and Population Growth on Virgin Branch Anasazi Cultural Developments
Two major drought episodes, A.D. 1000 to 1015 and A.D. 1120 to 1150, contributed to significant change in adaptive strategies of the Virgin Branch Anasazi, a prehistoric population that occupied the southwestern Great Basin between A.D. 100 and A.D. 1150. The first extreme climatic event promoted the adoption of several alternative buffering strategies including intensive agricultural practices, increased reliance on storage, and the organization…
The Evolution of Anasazi Ceramic Production and Distribution: Compositional Evidence from a Pueblo III Site in South-Central Utah
We start from the premise that ceramic evolution created the paste-compositional and formal diversity of archaeological ceramic assemblages. After discussing alternative models of formal and compositional diversity in ceramic assemblages, we examine an assemblage from an Anasazi site in southern Utah from which 206 sherds were characterized by neutron activation analysis. The assemblage is remarkably diverse compositionally, which indicates that …
Population Growth, Agricultural Intensification, and Culture Change among the Virgin Branch Anasazi, Nevada
Virgin Branch Anasazi settlement pattern data are examined to determine the extent to which agricultural practices may have been intensified along the Muddy and Virgin rivers of southern Nevada between A.C. 100 and 1150. It is argued that as population levels increase among arid-land hunters and gatherers there is an inevitable decline in the ratio between the quantities of wild resources and a region's human population. In response to such imbal…
Geophysical surveys of stratigraphically complex Island California sites: New Implications for Household Archaeology
Ground-penetrating radar and other geophysical techniques are known to produce useful data when deposits are crisply structured, as in the case of sub-surface masonry walls or large ditches. New studies of Californian coastal sites find the methods are effective in tracing the less sharp distinctions that define clay and sand house floors within these large and dense hunter-gatherer middens
Methodology of Comparison in Evolutionary Archaeology
Evolutionary archaeology needs methods for recognizing how selective retention of cultural variation shaped the archaeological record. One approach that has not yet been exploited fully is to derive adaptive hypotheses from evolutionary design arguments, then to test the hypotheses' predictions by comparing two or more segments of the archaeological record. In order to encourage further development of comparative methods, we discuss aspects of th…
California Climatic Reconstructions
ords reveal that over the centuries people living in California have experienced many climatically induced events. Today's conditions of water rationing, increased electric bills, depressed segments of the agricultural economy, and a high unemployment rate are, in part, a direct result of prolonged drought. Ever-increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other trace gases, the natural processes of climatic variability, and a proj…
Impacts of Climatic Variabiity and Population Growth on Virgin Branch Anasazi Cultural Developments
Two major drought episodes, A.D. 1000 to 1015 and A.D. 1120 to 1150, contributed to significant change in adaptive strategies of the Virgin Branch Anasazi, a prehistoric population that occupied the southwestern Great Basin between A.D. 100 and A.D. 1150. The first extreme climatic event promoted the adoption of several alternative buffering strategies including intensive agricultural practices, increased reliance on storage, and the organization…
California Climatic Reconstructions
ords reveal that over the centuries people living in California have experienced many climatically induced events. Today's conditions of water rationing, increased electric bills, depressed segments of the agricultural economy, and a high unemployment rate are, in part, a direct result of prolonged drought. Ever-increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other trace gases, the natural processes of climatic variability, and a proj…
Missionization among the Coastal Chumash of Central California: A Study of Risk Minimization Strategies
Anthropologists have long been interested in missionization, acculturation, and political subjugation of traditional peoples. In recent years scholars have generated voluminous amounts of data on Spanish colonialism and its effects on the native population of the Americas. This article specifically examines the missionization of the Chumash occupying the coastal region of central California. Although the abandonment of Chumash villages occurred o…
Population Growth, Agricultural Intensification, and Culture Change among the Virgin Branch Anasazi, Nevada
Virgin Branch Anasazi settlement pattern data are examined to determine the extent to which agricultural practices may have been intensified along the Muddy and Virgin rivers of southern Nevada between A.C. 100 and 1150. It is argued that as population levels increase among arid-land hunters and gatherers there is an inevitable decline in the ratio between the quantities of wild resources and a region's human population. In response to such imbal…
Risk, Climatic Variability, and the Study of Southwestern Prehistory: An Evolutionary Perspective
Two recent developments in southwestern archaeology are brought together in this paper. First, theoreticians have begun to argue that the archaeological record should be viewed as the product of selection-driven evolution. Second, tree-ring research has produced a highly detailed history of climate for a large area of the northern Southwest. We view the record of climatic oscillations and extreme events as a record of the strength of selection fa…
The Evolution of Anasazi Ceramic Production and Distribution: Compositional Evidence from a Pueblo III Site in South-Central Utah
We start from the premise that ceramic evolution created the paste-compositional and formal diversity of archaeological ceramic assemblages. After discussing alternative models of formal and compositional diversity in ceramic assemblages, we examine an assemblage from an Anasazi site in southern Utah from which 206 sherds were characterized by neutron activation analysis. The assemblage is remarkably diverse compositionally, which indicates that …
Methodology of Comparison in Evolutionary Archaeology
Evolutionary archaeology needs methods for recognizing how selective retention of cultural variation shaped the archaeological record. One approach that has not yet been exploited fully is to derive adaptive hypotheses from evolutionary design arguments, then to test the hypotheses' predictions by comparing two or more segments of the archaeological record. In order to encourage further development of comparative methods, we discuss aspects of th…
Geophysical surveys of stratigraphically complex Island California sites: New Implications for Household Archaeology
Ground-penetrating radar and other geophysical techniques are known to produce useful data when deposits are crisply structured, as in the case of sub-surface masonry walls or large ditches. New studies of Californian coastal sites find the methods are effective in tracing the less sharp distinctions that define clay and sand house floors within these large and dense hunter-gatherer middens
Medieval Climatic Anomaly and Punctuated Cultural Evolution in Coastal Southern California
Only in the last few years have high-resolution paleoclimatic data become available from coastal southern California. Recent research in the California Channel Islands, drawing on some of these data, attributes settlement disruptions, disease, and violence to maritime subsistence distress attendant to elevated sea temperatures in the period from A.D. 1150 to 1300. A broad range of paleoenvironmental, archaeological, and human osteological data su…
Compositional Characterization of Prehistoric Ceramics: A New Approach
Missions, Missionaries, and Native Americans: Long-Term Processes and Daily Practices by Maria F. Wade
Archaeology (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Geology (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Geology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Ecology (3 works)