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Acheson, Steven, and Rebecca J. Wigen
            2002   Evidence for a Prehistoric Whaling Tradition Among the Haida. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 36(2):155-170.

Adams, Jenny
            1999   Refocusing the Role of Food-Grinding Tools as Correlations for Subsistence Strategies in the U.S. Southwest. American Antiquity 64:475-498.

Aigner, Jean S., and Terry Del Bene
            1982   Early Holocene Maritime Adaptation in the Aleutian Islands. In Peopling of the New World. J.E. Ericson, R.E. Taylor, and R. Berger, eds. Pp. 35-68. California: Ballena Press.

Aikens, C. Melvin
            1998   Uto-Aztecan Cultural Continuity and Adaptive Diversity in the Desert West of North America: Reaching into Deep Time from the Edge of History. Reno, NV: Ms on file at the BLM Nevada State Office.

Alvard, Michael S., and Lawrence Kuznar
            2001   Deferred Harvests: The Transition from Hunting to Animal Husbandry. American Anthropologist 103(2):295-311.

Ames, K., et al.
            1998   Prehistory of the Southern Plateau. In Plateau. D.E. Walker, Jr., ed. Pp. 103-119. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 12. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Anderson, M.K., and D.L. Rowney
            1999   The Edible Plant Dichelostemma capitatum: Its Vegetative Reproduction Response to Different Indigenous Harvesting Regimes in California. Restoration Ecology 7(3):231-240.

Arkush, Brooke S.
            1999   Numic Pronghorn Exploitation: A Reassessment of Stewardian-Derived Models of Big-Game Hunting in the Great Basin. In Julian Steward and the Great Basin: The Making of an Anthropologist. R.O. Clemmer, L.D. Myers, and M.E. Rudden, eds. Pp. 35-52. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press.

Asch, N.B., Richard I. Ford, and D.L. Asch
            1972   Paleoethnobotany of the Koster site, the Archaic Horizons. Springfield, IL: Illinois State Museum.

Atwell, R.
            1989   Subsistence Variability on the Columbia Plateau. Masters, Portland State University.

Bard, James C., Colin L. Busby, and John M. Findlay
            1981   A Cultural Resources Overview of the Carson and Humboldt Sinks, Nevada. Carson City, NV: Bureau of Land Management.

Bettinger, Robert L., and Martin A. Baumhoff
            1982   The Numic Spread: Great Basin Cultures in Competition. American Antiquity 47(3):485-503.

Blackmore, William
            1869   The North-American Indians: A Sketch of Some of the Hostile Tribes, Together with a Brief Account of General Sheridan's Campaign of 1868 against the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians. The Journal of the Ethnological Society of London 1(3):287-320.

Bright, Jason, Andrew Ugan, and Lori Hunsaker
            2002   The Effect of Handling Time on Subsistence Technology. World Archaeology 34(1):164-181.

Butler, Virginia L.
            1996   Tui Chub Taphonomy and the Importance of Marsh Resources in the Western Great Basin of North America. American Antiquity 61(4):699-717.

Byers, David A., and Jack M. Broughton
            2004   Holocene Environmental Change, Artiodactyl Abundances, and Human Hunting Strategies in the Great Basin. American Antiquity 69(2):235-255.

Campbell, Robert B.
            2002   Newlands, old lands: Native American labor, agrarian ideology, and the progressive-era state in the making of the Newlands Reclamation Project, 1902-1926. Pacific Historical Review 71(2):203-238.

Campbell, S.
            1985   Summary of Results, Chief Joseph Dam Cultural Resources Project, Washington. S.K. Campbell, ed. Seattle, WA: Office of Public Archaeology, Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Washington.

Cannon, Aubrey
            2000   Settlement and Sea Levels on the Central Coast of British Columbia: Evidence from Shell Midden Cores. American Antiquity 65(1):67-77.

Cannon, Aubrey, and Dongya Y. Yang
            2007   Early Storage and Sedentism on the Pacific Northwest Coast: Ancient DNA Analysis of Salmon Remains from Namu, British Columbia. American Antiquity 71(1):123-140.

Chartkoff, Joseph L.
            1985   Shores: Perspectives on Paleoamerican Habitat, Subsistence, and Society in the Far West. In Woman, Poet, Scientist: Essays in New World Anthropology Honoring Dr. Emma Louis Davis. T.C. Blackburn, ed. Pp. 37-55. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press.

Connolly, T.J.
            1999   Newberry Crater: A Ten-thousand-year Record of Human Occupation and Environmental Change in the Basin-Plateau Borderlands. Volume 121. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Couture, Marilyn Dunlap, Lucile Housley, and Mary F. Ricks
            1986   Foraging behavior of a contemporary northern Great Basin population. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 8:150-160.

Dansie, Amy J.
            1987   The Rye Patch archaeofaunas: change through time. Carson City, NV: Nevada State Museum.

Dean, Rebecca M.
            2005   Site-Use Intensity, Cultural Modification of the Environment, and the Development of Agricultural Communities in Southern Arizona. American Antiquity 70(3):403-431.

Delacorte, Michael G.
            1994   Late Prehistoric Resource Intensification in the Numic Heartland. 20th Annual Great Basin Anthropological Conference, 1994.

Deo, Jennie N., John O.  Stone, and Julie K. Stein
            2004   Building Confidence in Shell: Variations in the Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Correction for the Northwest Coast Over the Past 3,000 Years. American Antiquity 69(4):771-786.

Dering, Phil
            1999   Earth-Oven Plant Processing in Archaic Period Economies: An Example from a Semi-Arid Savannah in South-Central North America. American Antiquity 64(4):659-674.

Diab, Mark C.
            1998   Economic Utility of the Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida): Implications for Arctic Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science 25(1):1-26.

Douglas, David
            1914   Journal Kept by David Douglas during His Travels in North America, 1823-1827. Together with A Particular Description of Thirty-three Species of American Oak and Eighteen Species of Pinus, with Appendices containing a List of the Plants Introduced by Douglas and an Account of His Death in 1834. London: W. Wesley and Son.

Drury, Clifford Merrill
            1976   Nine Years with the Spokane Indians: The Diary, 1838-1848, of Elkanah Walker. Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark.
Eells, Myron, ed.
            1909   Marcus Whitman: Pathfinder and Patriot. Seattle, WA: The Alice Harriman Company.

Elston, Robert G.
            1982   Good Times, Hard Times: Prehistoric Culture Change in the Western Great Basin. Society for American Archaeology Papers 2:186-206.

Elston, Robert G.
            1986   Prehistory of the Western Area. In Handbook of North American Indians. W. D'Azevedo, ed. Pp. 135-148, Vol. 11: Great Basin. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Erlandson, Jon, et al.
            2006   Beads, Bifaces, and Boats: An Early Maritime Adaptation on the South Coast of San Miguel Island, California. American Anthropologist 107(4):677-683.

Erlandson, Jon M., and Madonna L. Moss
            2001   Shellfish Feeders, Carrion Eaters, and the Archaeology of Aquatic Adaptations. American Antiquity 66(3):413-432.

Ferguson, T.J.
            1996   Human Remains and Associated Grave Goods from Lovelock Cave, Neavada: Final Research Report. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Department of Repatriation.

Fowler, Catherine S.
            1986   Subsistence. In Great Basin. W. d'Azevedo, ed. Pp. 64-97. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 11. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.

Fowler, C.S., ed.
            1989   Willard Z. Park's Ethnographic Notes on the Northern Paiute of Western Nevada, 1933-1940. Volume 1. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press.

Fowler, Catherine S.
            1990   Tule technology: northern Paiute uses of marsh resources in western Nevada. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Fowler, C.S.
            1995   Some Notes on Ethnographic Subsistence Systems in Mojavean Environments in the Great Basin. Journal of Ethnobiology 15(1):99-117.

Fowler, Catherine S., and Nancy Peterson Walter
            1985   Harvesting pandora moth larvae with the Owens Valley Paiute. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 7:155-165.

Fowler, D., and C.S. Fowler
            1970   Stephen Powers' "The Life and Culture of the Washoe and Paiutes". Ethnohistory 17(3-4):117-149.

Gilmore, Harry W.
            1953   Hunting Habits of the Early Nevada Paiutes. American Anthropologist 55(1):148-153.

Goodale, Nathan B.
            2002   Subsistence Pursuit, Living Structures, and the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Socioeconomic Systems at Keatleu Creek Site. In Journal of Northwest Anthropology, Vol. 36(2):213-226.

Greiser, Sally Thompson
            1985   Predictive Models of Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence and Settlement Strategies on the Central High Plains. Plains Anthropologist Memoir 20(110).

Gremillion, Kristen J.
            2004   Seed Processing and the Origins of Food Production in Eastern North America. American Antiquity 69(2):215-233.

Grosscup, Gordon L., et al.
            1974   Paiute Indians IV. New York, NY: Garland Publishing.

Gunther, Erna
            1995   Ethnobotany of Western Washington: The Knowledge and Use of Indigenous Plants by Native Americans. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.

Halmo, David B., Richard W. Stoffle, and Michel J. Evans
            1993   Paitu Nanasuagaindu Pahonupi (Three Sacred Valleys): Cultural Significance of Gosiute, Paiute, and Ute Plants. Human Organization 52(2):142-150.

Hanks, Christopher C., and David Pokotylo
            2000   Mountain Dene InSitu Adaptation and the Impact of European Contact on Mackenzie Drainage Athabaskan Land Use Patterns. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 25(1):17-27.

Harris, S., and B. L. Harper
            2001   Lifestyles, diets, and Native American exposure factors related to possible lead exposures and toxicity. Environmental Research 86(2):140-148.

Hart, C. P.
            1886   Piute herbalists. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 35:330-331.

Hart, John P., Robert A. Daniels, and Charles J. Sheviak
            2004   Do Cucurbita Pepo Gourds Float Fishnets? American Antiquity 69(1):141-148.

Hayden, B., and June M. Ryder
            1991   Prehistoric Cultural Collapse in the Lillooet Area. American Antiquity 56(1):50-65.

Hayden, B., and R. Schulting
            1997   The Plateau Interaction Sphere and late prehistoric cultural complexity. American Antiquity 62:51-85.

Herron, Scott M.
            1998   Ethnobotany of the Anishinaabek Northern Great Lakes Indians. Dissertation, Southern Illinois University.

Interior, Department of
            2000   Human Culture in the Southeastern Columbia Plateau, 9500-9000BP and Cultural Affiliation with Present-day Tribes. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior.

Kidwell, Clara Sue
            1985   Native Knowledge in the Americas. Osiris 1:209-228.

La Barre, Weston
            1947   Kiowa Folk Sciences. The Journal of American Folklore 60(236):105-114.

Lepofsky, Dana, et al.
            2000   The Archaeology of the Scowlitz Site, SW British Columbia. Journal of Field Archaeology 27(4):391-416.

Lepofsky, Dana, and Natasha Lyons
            2003   Modeling Ancient Plant Use on the Northwest Coast: Towards an Understanding of Mobility and Sedentism. Journal of Archaeological Science 30:1357-1371.

Losey, Robert J., et al.
            2003   Exploring the Use of Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa) Fruit on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America. Journal of Archaeological Science 30(6):695-707.

Lyman, R. Lee
            1995   On the Evolution of Marine Mammal Hunting on the West Coast of North America. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14(1):45-77.

Madsen, David B.
            1982   Get it Where the Getting's Good: A Variable Model of Great Basin Subsistence and Settlement Based on Data from the Eastern Great Basin. In Man and Environment in the Great Basin. D.B. Madsen and J.F. O'Connell, eds. Pp. 207-226. Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology.

McGuire, Kelly R., and William R. Hildebrandt
            2005   Re-Thinking Great Basin Foragers: Prestige Hunting and Costly Signaling During the Middle Archaic Period. American Antiquity 70(4):695-712.

McLauchlan, Kendra
            2003   Plant Cultivation and Forest Clearance by Prehistoric North Americans: Pollen Evidence from Fort Ancient, Ohio, USA. The Holocene 13(4):557-566.

Mehringer, Peter J., Jr.
            1986   Prehistoric Environments. In Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 11: Great Basin. W. D'Azevedo, ed. Pp. 31-50, Vol. 11: Great Basin. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Merriam, C. Hart
            1979   Indian Names for Plants and Animals Among California and Other Western North American Tribes. Volume 14. Socorro, NM: Ballena Press.

Moerman, Daniel E.
            1981   Geraniums for the Iroquois: A Field Guide to American Indian Medicinal Plants: Reference Publications Inc.: Michigan.

Moerman, Daniel E.
            1989   Poisoned Apples and Honeysuckles: The Medicinal Plants of Native America. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 3(1):52-61.

Parker, Samuel A.M.
            1846   Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, Under the Direction of the A.B.C.F.M. Containing a Description of the Geography, Geology, Climate, Productions of the Country, and the Numbers, Manners, and Customs of the Natives: With a Map of Oregon Territory. Auburn, NY: J.C. Derby & Co.

Pellegrini, Steven W.
            1994   Historical Uses and Botanical Descriptions of Thirty Plants Important to Great Basin Indians. Yerington, NV.

Poinar, H N, et al.
            2001   A molecular analysis of dietary diversity for three archaic Native Americans. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 98(8):4317-4322.

Porcasi, Judith F., and Harumi Fujita
            2000   The Dolphin Hunters: A Specialized Prehistoric Maritime Adaptation in the Southern California Channel Islands and Baja California. American Antiquity 65(3):543-566.

Porcasi, Judith F., Terry L. Jones, and L. Mark Raab
            2000   Trans-Holocene Marine Mammal Exploitation on San Clemente Island, California: A Tragedy of the Commons Revisited. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19:200-220.

Prince, Joseph M., and Richard H. Steckel
            2003   Nutritional Success on the Great Plains: Nineteenth-Century Equestrian Nomads. Journal of Interdisciplinary History XXXIII(3):353-384.

Raven, Christopher, and Robert G. Elston, eds.
            1988   Preliminary Investigations in Stillwater Marsh: Human Prehistory and Geoarchaeology. Volume 1. Reno, NV: Department of the Interior.

Rhode, David
            1988   Two Nineteenth-Century Reports of Great Basin Subsistence Practices. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 10(2):156-162.

Rhode, D.
            2003   Coprolites from Hidden Cave, Revisited: Evidence for Site Occupation History, Diet and Sex of Occupants. Journal of Archaeological Science 30:909-922.

Rick, Torben C., Jon M. Erlandson, and Rene L. Vellanoweth
            2001   Paleocoastal Marine Fishing on the Pacific Coast of the Americas: Perspectives from Daisy Cave, California. American Antiquity 66(4):595-614.

Roll, T., and S. Hackenberger
            1998   Prehistory of the Eastern Plateau. In Plateau. D.E. Walker, Jr., ed. Pp. 120-137. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 12. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Rosen, Martin D.
            1978   Faunal remains as indicators of acculturation in the Great Basin. Pp. 35-81. Los Angeles, CA: University of California at Los Angeles.

Schroeder, Sissel
            2001   Understanding Variation in Prehistoric Agricultural Productivity: The Importance of Distinguishing among Potential, Available, and Consumptive Yields. American Antiquity 66(3):517-525.

Sobel, Elizabeth, and Gordon Bettles
            2000   Winter Hunger, Winter Myths: Subsistence Risk and Mythology among the Klamath and Modoc. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19(3):276-316.

Stoffle, Richard W., et al.
            1990   Calculating the Cultural Significance of American Indian Plants: Paiute and Shoshone Ethnobotany at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA. American Anthropologist 92(2):416-432.

Thomas, David H.
            1999   Archaeology of Hidden Cave, Nevada. Pp. 8, Vol. 8 pages. Washington, D.C.: American Museum of Natural History.

Thomas, D.H., et al.
            1983   The Archaeology of Monitor Valley, Nevada, USA 1. Epistemology. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 58(1):1-176.

Thompson, R.S., and Eugene M. Hattori
            1983   Paleobotany of Gatecliff Shelter: Packrat (Neotoma) Middens from Gatecliff Shelter and Holocene Migrations of Woodland Plants. In The Archaeology of Monitor Valley. 2. Gatecliff Shelter. D.H. Thomas, ed. Pp. 157-167. American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers, Vol. 59(1). Washington, D.C.: American Museum of Natural History.

Train, Percy, James R. Heinrichs, and W. Andrew Archer
            1974   Medicinal Uses of Plants by Indian Tribes of Nevada. In Paiute Indians IV. D.A. Horr, ed. Pp. 53-257. New York, NY: Garland Publishing.

Trejo, Judy
            1985   Medicinal and edible plants of the Paiute Indians. Northwest Folklore 4(1):3-12.

Tuohy, Donald R.
            1974   A Cache of Fine Coiled, Feathered, and Decorated Baskets from Western Nevada. In Collected Papers on Aboriginal Basketry. Pp. 28-46. Anthropological Papers, Vol. 16. Carson City, NV: Nevada State Museum.

Tuohy, Donald R.
            1990   Pyramid Lake Fishing: The Archaeological Record. In Wetland Adaptations in the Great Basin. J.C. Janetski and D.B. Madsen, eds. Pp. 121-158. Provo, UT: Brighman Yound University.

Ugan, Andrew
            2005   Does Size Matter? Body Size, Mass Collecting, and Thier Implications for Understanding Prehistoric Foraging Behavior. American Antiquity 70(1):75-89.

Walde, Dale
            2006   Sedentism and Pre-Contact Tribal Organization on the Northern Plains: Colonial Imposition or Indigenous Development? World Archaeology 38(2):291-310.

Wallace, William J.
            1972   California Indian chewing gums. Masterkey 46:27-33.

Weber, A.W., D.W. Link, and M. Katzenberg
            2002   Hunter-Gatherer Culture Change and Continuity in the Middle Holocene of the Cis-Baikal, Siberia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 21(2):230-299.

Wedel, Waldo R., and George C. Frison
            2001   Environment and Subsistence. In Plains. R.J. deMallie, ed. Pp. 44-60. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 13. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.

Wheat, Margaret M.
            1967   Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press.

Whistler, Kenneth W.
            1977   Wintun Prehistory: An Interpretation Based on Linguistic Reconstruction of Plant and Animal Nomenclature. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 3:157-174.

Whitley, David Scott
            1994   By the Hunter, for the Gatherer: Art, Social Relations and Subsistence Change in the Prehistoric Great Basin. World Archaeology 25(3):356-373.

Wright, William, and Dan DeQuille
            1963   Washo rambles. Los Angeles, CA: Westernlore Press.

 


 

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