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List of works by Todd J. Braje

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 mid-twentieth-century Anthropocene makes the Holocene more important than ever

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

Above and Below the Waves:

scholarly article

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

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Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Archeology and the Anthropocene

scholarly article by Jon M. Erlandson published in December 2013

Arrival routes of first Americans uncertain-Response

scientific article published in Science

Beads, Bifaces, and Boats: An Early Maritime Adaptation on the South Coast of San Miguel Island, California

scholarly article in American Anthropologist, vol. 107 no. 4, December 2005

Black abalone (Haliotis cracherodii) population structure shifts through deep time: Management implications for southern California's northern Channel Islands

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

California’s Red Abalone (Haliotis Rufescens) Middens: Comment on Glassow

Central place foraging and shellfish processing on California’s Northern Channel Islands

scholarly article by Christopher S. Jazwa published in December 2015

Coasting out of Africa: The potential of mangrove forests and marine habitats to facilitate human coastal expansion via the Southern Dispersal Route

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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

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

scientific article published in March 2022

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

Earth Systems, Human Agency, and the Anthropocene: Planet Earth in the Human Age

scientific article published in August 2015

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

Ecology of the Kelp Highway: Did Marine Resources Facilitate Human Dispersal From Northeast Asia to the Americas?

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Estimating California mussel (Mytilus californianus) size from hinge fragments: a methodological application in historical ecology

Exploring the Human Ecology of the Younger Dryas Extraterrestrial Impact Event

abstract PP42A-02 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

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

Foundations for the Far West: Paleoindian Cultures on the Western Fringe of North America

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From Asia to the Americas by boat? Paleogeography, paleoecology, and stemmed points of the northwest Pacific

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

scientific article published in November 2013

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

How Old is MVII?—Seaweeds, Shorelines, and the Pre-Clovis Chronology at Monte Verde, Chile

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Human Impacts on Nearshore Shellfish Taxa: A 7,000 Year Record from Santa Rosa Island, California

Human acceleration of animal and plant extinctions: A Late Pleistocene, Holocene, and Anthropocene continuum

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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

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

scholarly article

Life on the Dunes: Fishing Ritual, and Daily Life at Two Late Period Sites on Vizcaino Point: Archaeological Testing at CA-SNI-39 and CA-SNI-162, San Nicolas Island, CA

scientific article published on 27 October 2008

Looking forward, looking back: Humans, anthropogenic change, and the Anthropocene

Maritime Heritage in Crisis: Indigenous landscapes and global ecological breakdown, by Richard M. Hutchings, 2017. New York (NY): Routledge; ISBN 978-1-62958-348-8 paperback $44.95; 144 pp., 34 b/w figs

scientific article published on 28 June 2017

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

Measuring Mytilus californianus: an Addendum to Campbell and Braje (2015) and Singh and McKechnie (2015) including commentary and an integration of data

scientific article published in June 2015

Measuring subsistence specialization: Comparing historic and prehistoric abalone middens on San Miguel Island, California

scholarly article by Todd J. Braje published in September 2007

Mollusks and Mass Harvesting in the Middle Holocene

scientific article published in December 2009

No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

scientific article

Of Seals, Sea Lions, and Abalone: The Archaeology of an Historical Multiethnic Base Camp on San Miguel Island, California

scientific article published in June 2014

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

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

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People & Culture in Ice Age Americas: New Dimensions in Paleoamerican Archaeology

scientific article published on 2 July 2020

Pinnipeds and Paleocoastal Middens: A Case Study From Point Bennett, San Miguel Island, California

Sea of Prosperity: Foundations of the California Commercial Abalone Fishery

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

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

Shifting Baselines: The Past and the Future of Ocean Fisheries

scientific article published in May 2013

Shorelines in the Desert: Mapping Fish Trap Features along the Southwest Coast of Ancient Lake Cahuilla, California

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Soils and terrestrial sediments on the seafloor: Refining archaeological paleoshoreline estimates and paleoenvironmental reconstruction off the California coast

scientific article published in 2022

Stemmed Points, the Coastal Migration Theory, and the Peopling of the Americas

Submerged paleoshoreline mapping using high-resolution Chirp sub-bottom data, Northern Channel Islands platform, California, USA

scientific article

The Big Picture versus Minutiae: Geophytes, Plant Foods, and Ancient Human Economies

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

The Younger Dryas ET Impact Theory and Terminal Pleistocene Mammalian Extinctions in North America

abstract PP43A-06 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

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