California Indians & Their Environment
An Introduction
Kent G. Lightfoot and Otis Parrish
This major new work tells how the California Indians interacted with the state's varied landscape, enhancing its already bountiful natural resources through various practices centered around prescribed burning. The book is based in part on recent archaeological findings. A handy illustrated reference section describes the plants, animals and minerals that the California Indians used for food, basketry and cordage, medicine, and more.
512 pages, 4.25" x 7.25," 135 color photographs, 13 black & white photographs, 8 maps, 4 other illustrations, 38 page bibliography, 26 other pages of references, 35 page index, 2009.
Published by UC Press.
ISBN 978-0 520-25690-3 trade paper
$24.95
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