The Long Shore: Archaeologies and Social Histories of Californias Maritime Cultural Landscapes

The archaeology of maritime cultural landscapes offers insights into cultural traditions, social transitions, and cultural relationships that reach beyond the narrow confines of waterfronts and beach strands and helps construct meaningful social histories. The long shore of California is not limited to the land that borders the Pacific Ocean, but includes the navigable waters that reach inland, the off-shore islands, and the riverways flow to the sea. Authors investigate the multifaceted character of maritime landscapes and maritime oriented communities in California’s equally diverse cultural landscape; viewed through an archaeological lens, and emphasizing social behavior and community as material culture in order to reveal intersections and commonalities.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Preface Introduction: The Long Shore. Perspectives on Maritime Cultural Landscapes Marco Meniketti Part I: Before the Invasion. The Indigenous Maritime World: Ancient Landscapes Chapter 1. Marine Cultural Heritage, Landscapes, and the Human Dimension of Marine Ecosystems: Building Bridges Between Marine and Social Science: Chumash Amy Gusick, Jillian Maloney, Todd Braje, Shannon Klotsko, Jon Erlandson, Luke Johnson Chapter 2. Life at Tsiyiwi (CA-SLO-51/H), A Northern Chumash Maritime Community on the Pecho Coast of Central California Terry Jones and Brian Codding Chapter 3. The Drake’s Bay Historic and Archaeological District: Encounters at tamàl-húye Mathew Russell Part II: Immigrant Communities and Economies Chapter 4. California’s Nineteenth Century Chinese Fisheries and the Dawn of Commercial Abalone Fishing Todd Braje and Linda Bentz Chapter 5. Feluccas on the San Francisco Bay: Italian Fishermen and the Meaning of Community and the Mediterranean Connection Marco Meniketti Chapter 6. A Case Study of the Portuguese and Shore Whaling Linking the Azores to California Catherine Mistely, Karen Johannson, and Marco Meniketti Part III: Opportunistic Industry and Enterprises Chapter 7. Repurposing and Reusing Ships Sheli Smith Chapter 8. The Redwood Coast’s Doghole Ports: The Interplay Between Resource Extraction, Shipping, and Community Deborah Marx and Denise Jaffke Epilogue Amy Gusick Index

About the Author :
Marco Meniketti is a Professor and senior archaeologist at San Jose State University in California. He has received the Vogel Prize from the Society for Industrial Archeology and the SJSU College of Social Science award for Excellence in Teaching and is the 2020 recipient of the Austen D. Warburton Award of Merit by the College of Social Science at San Jose State University. From 2017–20 he served as Chair of the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology.

Review :
“This is a volume that is long overdue, and that pulls together an amazingly diverse and complex body of research that scholars across a variety of different disciplines and research areas will want to access.” • Margaret Purser, Sonoma State University