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Title Human impacts on seals, sea lions, and sea otters : integrating archaeology and ecology in the Northeast Pacific / edited by Todd J. Braje and Torben C. Rick.

Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 320 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; Contributors; 1 PEOPLE, PINNIPEDS, AND SEA OTTERS OF THE NORTHEAST PACIFIC; 2 A HISTORY OF PALEOECOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON SEA OTTERS AND PINNIPEDS OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC RIM; 3 THE HISTORICAL ECOLOGY OF WALRUS EXPLOITATION IN THE NORTH PACIFIC; 4 NEOGLACIAL SEA ICE AND LIFE HISTORY FLEXIBILITY IN RINGED AND FUR SEALS; 5 A 4500-YEAR TIME-SERIES OF OTARIID ABUNDANCE ON SANAK ISLAND, WESTERN GULF OF ALASKA; 6 AN ANALYSIS OF SEAL, SEA LION, AND SEA OTTER CONSUMPTION PATTERNS ON SANAK ISLAND, ALASKA: AN 1800-YEAR RECORD ON ALEUT CONSUMER BEHAVIOR.
Summary For more than ten thousand years, Native Americans from Alaska to southern California relied on aquatic animals such as seals, sea lions, and sea otters for food and raw materials. Archaeological research on the interactions between people and these marine mammals has made great advances recently and provides a unique lens for understanding the human and ecological past. Archaeological research is also emerging as a crucial source of information on contemporary environmental issues as we improve our understanding of the ancient abundance, ecology, and natural history of these species.
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Subject Marine mammal remains (Archaeology) -- Northwest Coast of North America.
Marine mammal remains (Archaeology)
Seals (Animals) -- Effect of human beings on -- Northwest Coast of North America -- History.
Seals (Animals)
History.
Sea otter -- Effect of human beings on -- Northwest Coast of North America -- History.
Sea otter.
Hunting, Prehistoric -- Northwest Coast of North America.
Hunting, Prehistoric.
Paleoecology -- Northwest Coast of North America.
Paleoecology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Braje, Todd J., 1976-
Rick, Torben C.
Other Form: Print version: Human impacts on seals, sea lions, and sea otters. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520267268 (DLC) 2010034645 (OCoLC)663458891
ISBN 9780520948976 (electronic book)
0520948971 (electronic book)
9780520267268
0520267265