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10,000 years of human predation and size changes in the owl limpet (Lottia gigantea) on San Miguel Island, California

12,000 Years of Human Predation on Black Turban Snails (Chlorostoma funebralis) on Alta California's Northern Channel Islands

A 6,000 Year Old Red Abalone Midden from Otter Point, San Miguel Island, California

A trans-Holocene archaeological record of Guadalupe fur seals (Arctocephalus townsendi) on the California coast

scholarly article by Torben C. Rick published in April 2009

A trans-Holocene historical ecological record of shellfish harvesting on California’s Northern Channel Islands

scientific article

Adaptive divergence despite strong genetic drift: genomic analysis of the evolutionary mechanisms causing genetic differentiation in the island fox (Urocyon littoralis).

scientific article

An Historic Chinese Abalone Fishery on California’s Northern Channel Islands

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Ancient experiments: forest biodiversity and soil nutrients enhanced by Native American middens

scientific article published in 2014

Anthropology. Coastal exploitation

scientific article

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Archaeological implications of a bald eagle nesting site at Ferrelo Point, San Miguel Island, California

scholarly article by Jon M. Erlandson published in February 2007

Archaeological mitogenomes illuminate the historical ecology of sea otters (<i>Enhydra lutris</i>) and the viability of reintroduction

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Archaeological survey, paleogeography, and the search for Late Pleistocene Paleocoastal peoples of Santa Rosa Island, California

scholarly article by Torben C. Rick published in November 2013

Archaeology Meets Marine Ecology: The Antiquity of Maritime Cultures and Human Impacts on Marine Fisheries and Ecosystems ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2010

Archaeology and coastal conservation

scholarly article by Torben C. Rick published in September 2010

Archaeology, climate, and global change in the Age of Humans

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Archeology, deep history, and the human transformation of island ecosystems

scholarly article by Torben C. Rick published in December 2013

Arrival routes of first Americans uncertain-Response

scientific article published in Science

Biogeographic problem-solving reveals the Late Pleistocene translocation of a short-faced bear to the California Channel Islands

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Busted Balls Shell Midden (CA-SMI-606): An Early Coastal Site on San Miguel Island, California

Climate Change Archaeology: Building Resilience from Research in the World’s Coastal Wetlands. Robert Van De Noort. 2013. Oxford University Press, New York, xii + 272 pp. $125 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-19-969955-1

scholarly article by Torben C. Rick published in April 2015

Collagen Fingerprinting and the Earliest Marine Mammal Hunting in North America.

scientific article published on 3 July 2018

Collagen fingerprinting and the Chumash billfish fishery, Santa Barbara Channel, California, USA ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Comparing Faunal Remains and Subsistence Technology at CA-SMI-507: A 9,000-Year-Old Paleocoastal Shell Midden on San Miguel Island, California

article by Jon M. Erlandson et al published 14 October 2009 in Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Conflicts in natural and cultural resource management: Archaeological site disturbances by seals and sea lions on California's Northern Channel Islands

scholarly article by Todd J. Braje published in November 2011

Conservation archaeogenomics: ancient DNA and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 11 July 2015

Coring, profiling, and trenching: Archaeological field strategies for investigating the Pleistocene-Holocene-Anthropocene continuum

scientific article published in March 2022

Does butchering fish leave cut marks?

scientific article published in May 2008

Dogs, humans and island ecosystems: the distribution, antiquity and ecology of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) on California's Channel Islands, USA

Early Holocene Fishing Strategies on the California Coast: Evidence from CA-SBA-2057

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Early New World maritime technologies: sea grass cordage, shell beads, and a bone tool from Cave of the Chimneys, San Miguel Island, California, USA

Ecce Homo: Science and Society Need Anthropological Collections

scientific article

Ecological Change on California's Channel Islands from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

article by Torben C. Rick et al published 11 July 2014 in BioScience

Ecosystem stability and Native American oyster harvesting along the Atlantic Coast of the United States

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Eight and Counting

scientific article published in January 2013

Equipping the 22nd-Century Historical Ecologist

scientific article

Evaluating Ancient Whale Exploitation on the Northern Oregon Coast Through Ancient DNA and Zooarchaeological Analysis

scientific article published on 9 May 2016

Evaluating the Economic Significance of Sharks, Skates, and Rays (Elasmobranchs) in Prehistoric Economies

Finding the first Americans

scientific article published in November 2017

Fishing from past to present: continuity and resilience of red abalone fisheries on the Channel Islands, California

scientific article published on June 2009

Fishing up the Food Web?: 12,000 Years of Maritime Subsistence and Adaptive Adjustments on California's Channel Islands

Flightless ducks, giant mice and pygmy mammoths: Late Quaternary extinctions on California's Channel Islands

scholarly article by Torben C. Rick published in March 2012

Foragers on America’s Western Edge: The Archaeology of California’s Pecho Coast. Terry L. Jones and Brian F. Codding. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019, 304 pp. $50.00, cloth. ISBN 9781607816430

Forty Years Later: What Have We Learned about the Earliest Human Occupations of Santa Rosa Island, California?

article published in 2008

From Pleistocene Mariners to Complex Hunter-Gatherers: The Archaeology of the California Channel Islands

scholarly article by Torben C. Rick published in September 2005

From forest fires to fisheries management: anthropology, conservation biology, and historical ecology.

scientific article published in November 2013

Historic Period Chumash Occupation of 'Anayapax, Anacapa Island, Alta California ⬇️

scientific article published in September 2011

Historical ecology and the conservation of large, hermaphroditic fishes in Pacific Coast kelp forest ecosystems

scientific article

Historical ecology can inform restoration site selection:the case of black abalone(Haliotis cracherodii)along California's Channel Islands

Human ecology, paleogeography, and biodiversity on California’s small Islands

scientific article published on 2 July 2020

Human impacts on ancient shellfish: a 10,000 year record from San Miguel Island, California

Integrating paleobiology, archeology, and history to inform biological conservation

scientific article

Island and Coastal Archaeology: Innovation, Change, and New Directions

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JICA Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary

scientific article published on 2 January 2015

Late Pleistocene estuaries, palaeoecology and humans on North America's Pacific Coast

scholarly article

Leveraging legacy archaeological collections as proxies for climate and environmental research

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Marine Shellfish Harvest on Middle and late Holocene Santa Barbara Island, Alta California ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2009

Maritime Paleoindian technology, subsistence, and ecology at an ~11,700 year old Paleocoastal site on California's Northern Channel Islands, USA

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Maritime Subsistence at a 9300 Year Old Shell Midden on Santa Rosa Island, California

scientific article published in 1999

Millennial-scale sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay Native American oyster fishery

scientific article

Mitochondrial genomes suggest rapid evolution of dwarf California Channel Islands foxes (Urocyon littoralis)

scientific article

New insights on the Par-Tee (35CLT20) site: Collections-based research of northern Oregon Coast fisheries

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

On the Antiquity of the Single-Piece Shell Fishhook: AMS Radiocarbon Evidence from the Southern California Coast

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Origins and antiquity of the island fox (Urocyon littoralis) on California's Channel Islands

Our disappearing past: a GIS analysis of the vulnerability of coastal archaeological resources in California’s Santa Barbara Channel region

scholarly article by Leslie A. Reeder published in October 2010

Oxygen isotope analysis of California mussel shells: seasonality and human sedentism at an 8,200-year-old shell midden on Santa Rosa Island, California

Paleoindian seafaring, maritime technologies, and coastal foraging on California's Channel Islands

scientific article

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

scientific article

Pleistocene to historic shifts in bald eagle diets on the Channel Islands, California

scientific article

Radiocarbon dating and the “old shell” problem: direct dating of artifacts and cultural chronologies in coastal and other aquatic regions

Re-evaluating the origins of late Pleistocene fire areas on Santa Rosa Island, California, USA

Recent Progress, Trends, and Developments in Island and Coastal Archaeology

scholarly article by Scott M. Fitzpatrick published in January 2015

Reply to Hudgens et al.: Bald eagles, no-analog ecological scenarios, and conservation strategies on the Channel Islands.

scientific article published on 10 February 2011

Sea level, paleogeography, and archeology on California's Northern Channel islands

scholarly article by Leslie Reeder-Myers published in March 2015

Seals, Sea Lions, and the Erosion of Archaeological Sites on California's Channel Islands

scholarly article by Torben C. Rick published in May 2009

Seventy Years of Archaeological Research on California’s Farallon Islands ⬇️

scientific article published on 3 July 2019

Shellfish Gathering and Shell Midden Archaeology Revisited: Chronology and Taphonomy at White Oak Point, Potomac River Estuary, Virginia

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Shellfish and the Chumash: Marine Invertebrates and Complex Hunter-Gatherers on Late Holocene San Miguel Island, California

Shellfish, Geophytes, and Sedentism on Early Holocene Santa Rosa Island, Alta California, USA

scholarly article

Social science perspectives on drivers of and responses to global climate change

scientific article published on 09 September 2018

Stable Isotopes from Marine Shells, Ancient Environments, and Human Subsistence on Middle Holocene Santa Rosa Island, California, USA

scientific article published in December 2006

Taphonomy and site formation on California's Channel Islands

Teacher's Corner: Does Our Background Shape Our Thinking about Environmental Issues

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

The Dogs of CA-SRI-2: Osteometry of Canis familiaris from Santa Rosa Island, California

The Four Crowns of the Sea: Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Coronados Islands, Baja California, México

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

The Holocene 15,8 (2005) pp. 1227-1235 A geoarchaeological chronology of Holocene dune building on San Miguel Island, California

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology Turns Six

scholarly article by Torben C. Rick published in March 2011

The overkill model and its impact on environmental research

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

The premise and potential of model-based approaches to island archaeology: A response to Terrell

scientific article published on 21 April 2021

Tracking the origins and diet of an endemic island canid (Urocyon littoralis) across 7300 years of human cultural and environmental change

scholarly article

Understanding the Occupation of Small Continental Islands: Seasonality and δ 18 O Evidence From Anacapa Island, California

scientific article published on 2 September 2014

Unveiling the Ecological Applications of Ancient DNA From Mollusk Shells

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Were Hominins in California ∼130,000 Years Ago?

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Where were the northern elephant seals? Holocene archaeology and biogeography of Mirounga angustirostris

scholarly article by Torben C. Rick published in June 2011

Why So Late? AMS Radiocarbon Evidence of a Late Holocene Appearance of Shell Fishhooks in Alta California

scientific article published on 2 January 2019

Younger Dryas environments and human adaptations on the West Coast of the United States and Baja California

scholarly article

δ15N Values in Crassostrea virginica Shells Provides Early Direct Evidence for Nitrogen Loading to Chesapeake Bay.

scientific article

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