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List of works by René L. Vellanoweth

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 Cache Within a Cache: Description of an Abalone “Treasure-Box” from the CA-SNI-14 Redwood Box Cache, San Nicolas Island, Alta California

scientific article

AMS Radiocarbon Dating and Shell Bead Chronologies: Middle Holocene Trade and Interaction in Western North America

scientific article published in September 2001

Coastal paleogeography and human land use at Tecolote Canyon, southern California, U.S.A

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

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

Erratum to “Trauma and pathology of a buried dog from San Nicolas Island, California, U.S.A.” [Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010) 2721–2734

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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 the Island of the Blue Dolphins: A Unique Nineteenth-Century Cache Feature From San Nicolas Island, California

scholarly article

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

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

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

Reductions in the dietary niche of southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) from the Holocene to the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Residue analysis links sandstone abraders to shell fishhook production on San Nicolas Island, California

scientific article published in February 2015

Sourcing archaeological asphaltum (bitumen) from the California Channel Islands to submarine seeps

Taphonomy and site formation on California's Channel Islands

Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave Deposits

scholarly article

The Antiquity of Pearling in the Americas: Pearl Modification Beginning at Least 8,500 Years Ago in Baja California Sur, México

scholarly article by Amira F. Ainis published in August 2019

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

scholarly article

Trauma and pathology of a buried dog from San Nicolas Island, California, U.S.A

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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