California's Channel Islands, a group of eight islands distributed off the coast from Point Con-
ception to the Mexican border, provide a rich abundance and diversity of environmental …

Atlantic coast (fig. 3.3) and then onward along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Not included are a
few isolated barrier islands in New England—for example, Plum Island in Massachusetts …

Two national commissions recently concluded that the world's oceans are in a state of crisis.
A relatively high percentage of commercial fisheries are either fully exploited or …

The islands of Alta and Baja California changed dramatically in the centuries after Spanish
colonists arrived. Native populations were decimated by disease, and their lives were …

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 …

As scientific funding for the social sciences continues to shrink, archaeologists increasingly
need to justify our discipline to deans, politicians, funding agencies, and the public at large …

A naval reservation since 1934, San Clemente Island is not open to civilians, except by
permission of the military authorities. Most civilian encounters with the island are by fishing …

The nature, climate, and fauna of the islands suffice to show that they must have been ideal
places for a native population. Nowhere on the whole coast is there any locality suitable to …

A century ago it was common knowledge among historians and anthropologists with
research interests in northwestern Mexico that Indians had inhabited four large islands in the …

BOOK REVIEWS A-AA The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonization of the Pacific. Geoffrey
Irwin. bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. vii+ 240 pp., 83 figures, 22 tables …