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• ISBN: 9780520267268 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0520267265 (cloth : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: viii, 320 pages : illustration, maps ; 27 cm.
• Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

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People, pinnipeds, and sea otters of the northeast Pacific / Torben C. Rick, Todd J. Braje, and Robert L. DeLong -- A history of paleoecological research on sea otters and pinnipeds of the eastern Pacific Rim / R. Lee Lyman -- The historical ecology of walrus exploitation in the North Pacific / Erica Hill -- Neoglacial sea ice and life history flexibility in ringed and fur seals / Susan J. Crockford and S. Gay Frederick -- A 4500-year time-series of otariid abundance on Sanak Island, western Gulf of Alaska / Matthew W. Betts, Herbert D.G. Maschner, and Veronica Lech -- An analysis of seal, sea lion, and sea otter consumption patterns on Sanak Island, Alaska : an 1800-year record on Aleut consumer behavior / Veronica Lech, Matthew W. Betts, and Herbert D.G. Maschner -- Toward a historical ecology of pinniped and sea otter hunting traditions on the coast of southern British Columbia / Iain McKechnie and Rebecca J. Wigen -- Native American use of seals, sea lions, and sea otters in estuaries of northern Oregon and southern Washington / Madonna L. Moss and Robert J. Losey -- Why were northern fur seals spared in northern California? : a cultural and archaeological explanation / Adrian R. Whitaker and William R. Hildebrandt -- Holocene Monterey Bay fur seals : distribution, dates, and ecological implications / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez -- Toward a prehistory of the southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) / Terry L. Jones ... [et al.] -- Resilience and reorganization : archaeology and historical ecology of California Channel Island marine mammals / Todd J. Braje ... [et al.] -- Perspectives from the past : archaeology, historical ecology, and northeastern Pacific pinnipeds and sea otters / Todd J. Braje and Torben C. Rick.

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Marine mammal remains (Archaeology) > Northwest Coast of North America.
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Sea lions > Effect of human beings on > Northwest Coast of North America > History.
Sea otter > Effect of human beings on > Northwest Coast of North America > History.
Paleo-Indians > Hunting > Northwest Coast of North America.
Hunting, Prehistoric > Northwest Coast of North America.
Paleoecology > Northwest Coast of North America.
Marine mammals > Conservation > Northwest Coast of North America.
Indians of North America > Ethnozoology > Pacific Coast (North America)
Indians of North America > Hunting > Pacific Coast (North America)