Foragers on America's Western Edge

"The authors work hard to write up (in detail) the results of their excavations (and those of others), creating single component assemblages that will be available for other people to use long into the future. Jesse Jennings would approve of the Jones-Codding effort." --William Hildebrandt, founding president, Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc. "Jones and Codding are to be commended for compiling, synthesizing, and interpreting data collected along the Pecho Coast since Greenwood's seminal work published in 1972. This was no small task. Regional syntheses are few and far between along the California Central Coast and Jones's and Codding's book will be an important contribution." --Clayton G. Lebow, vice president/principal archaeologist, Applied EarthWorks, Inc. "Landmark work, by far the best to date, on a part of coastal California that has received less attention than it should. Co-authored by a pair of the discipline's most highly esteemed scholars, Foragers on America's Western Edge: The Archaeology of California's Pecho Coast attends to archaeological and natural historical detail without losing sight of important large-scale patterns." --Robert Bettinger, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis

Terry L. Jones is professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Social Sciences at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He has co-edited several volumes and authored numerous articles and book chapters on Californias prehistory. Brian F. Codding is associate professor of anthropology and director of the Archaeological Center at the University of Utah. He has published more than forty journal articles and recently co-edited the book Why Forage? Hunters and Gatherers in the Twenty-first Century.