Don Laylander

Biographic Data

ID602773
NAMEDon Laylander
GIVEN NAMESDon
FAMILY NAMELaylander
SIGNATURELAYLANDER D
AFFILIATIONSASM International
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Shell Beads and Ornaments in Prehistoric Baja California

    Don Laylander, Eric W Ritter et al.ARTICLECalifornia Archaeology2024References: 17

  • Villages in Prehistoric Southern California

    Don LaylanderARTICLECalifornia Archaeology2022References: 4

    The term “village” has been variously applied either to specific geographical locations or to the social units that inhabited such locations. In the late prehistoric territories of the Kumeyaay groups in San Diego and Imperial counties and in northwestern Baja California, the ambiguity of the term may lead to significant misreadings of the region’s ethnohistoric, ethnographic, and archaeological records, including underestimating the groups’ mobi…

  • Identifying, Dating, and Explaining Fire-Affected Rock Features in the Western Colorado Desert, Alta California

    Jerry Schaefer, Don Laylander et al.ARTICLECalifornia Archaeology2014Cited by: 3References: 5

    Many hundreds of small features composed of fire-affected rock (FAR), often with no other cultural remains in proximity to them, have been documented along or within a few kilometers of the maximum +12-m shoreline of ancient Lake Cahuilla in southwestern Imperial County. Issues to be addressed in interpreting these features include confirming their cultural rather than natural origin, placing them within the prehistoric chronology of the region, …

  • Diversity in Prehistoric Burials and Cemeteries in the Western Yuman Region

    Don LaylanderARTICLECalifornia Archaeology2011References: 6

    Emerging evidence concerning prehistoric mortuary practices within the Western Yuman region of southern California and northern Baja California attests to patterns of change through time as well as to diversity across other dimensions. Several aspects of such practices — the prevalent cultural attitudes toward the dead, the various methods of disposition for human remains, the materials that were deposited together with burials, and the locations…

  • The prehistory of Baja California

    Don Laylander, Jerry D MooreBOOKThe prehistory of Baja Californina2006

    Baja California, stretching 800 miles south into the Pacific Ocean from the California-Mexico border, has been called the forgotten a remote frontier whose natural wonders and history have remained largely unexplored. One of the world's longest peninsulas, Baja California harbors astonishing evidence of the hunting and gathering peoples who once lived here, yet the region has been little studied, and not much has been published about its archaeol…

  • The question of prehistoric agriculture among the western Yumans

    Open AccessDon LaylanderARTICLEESTUDIOS FRONTERIZOS1995References: 5

    Agriculture fanned an important part of the subsistence system of the prehistoric: Yuman-speaking peoples who lived along or near the lower Colorado River. Some recent scholars have argued that the Yumans of nnorthwestern Baja California and southwestern California also practiced agriculture prehistorically. A critical review of the evidence fills to fails any substantial support for that conclusion

  • Enfoques lingüísticos sobre la prehistoria del sur de California

    Open AccessDon LaylanderARTICLEESTUDIOS FRONTERIZOS1993Cited by: 2References: 2

    El estudio de la evidencia sobre los idiomas indígenas yumanos, utoaztecanos y chumashanos del sur de California y de la parte norte de Baja California se plantea por el autor como una forma que puede ayudarnos a entender mejor el desarrollo prehistórico de la región. Para esto, se analizan en este documento diversos enfoques utilizados en los estudios lingüísticos de estas comunidades tempranas. El modelo genético de la descendencia lingüística …

  • Organización comunitaria de los yumanos occidentales

    Open AccessDon LaylanderARTICLEESTUDIOS FRONTERIZOS1991Cited by: 2

    Existe actualmente múltiples aspectos sobre la cultura de las sociedades aborígenes de Baja California antes del contacto europeo que se desconocen en gran medida. Uno de estos aspectos es la organización de la comunidad ¿Cómo podemos aproximarnos a esta información?El autor de este trabajo presenta de una forma crítica las experiencias de distintos etnógrafos de este siglo con respecto a este tema y en base al análisis cuidadoso de la informació…

  • Una exploración de las adaptaciones culturales prehistóricas en Baja California

    Open AccessDon LaylanderARTICLEESTUDIOS FRONTERIZOS1987References: 1

    Esta investigación profundiza acerca de cuáles cambios y cuándo ocurrieron en los estilos y las tecnologías prehistóricas tal como se ven reflejadas en la cultura material que se ha conservado. Al mismo tiempo analiza cómo fue que las sociedades lograron establecerse aquí y cómo fue que pudieron sostenerse y desarrollarse en este medio ecológico, o en su caso, por qué fracasaron en su intento. Con el fin de obtener información acerca de las adapt…