Multi-scalar foraging decisions in the Santa Barbara Channel, southern California

摘要: Abstracts Hunter-gatherer decisions about where to live were influenced by many behaviors, some easier see in the archaeological record (i.e. hunting or trapping vertebrates, gathering shellfish, quarrying and flint knapping) more difficult processing plants, environmental variability, spiritual meaning, social relationships). Spatial modeling provides a tool examine of those based on how they location sites. This study uses tenets central place foraging theory build multi-scalar settlement model for Santa Barbara Channel southern California, rising sea levels during Late Pleistocene Early Holocene erased large portion existing studies macrobotanical remains are limited. The is evaluated through comparison with record, reveals complex set priorities landscape use. People appear have different resource categories—freshwater, protein, carbohydrates, lithic raw materials—at spatial scales depending part their importance subsistence but also variable productivity distribution resources themselves. has considerable potential both analyzing generating hypotheses future research.