"Purpose of the Study: This thesis aims to identify, interpret, and analyze culturally unmodified bones, and to advocate for new approaches to faunal remains analysis in archaeology and related fields. Culturally unmodified modified bones, I argue, ar . . .

Late Holocene resource intensification models indicate a temporal shift from exploitation of large, low-cost food resources to smaller, high-cost resources in central California. Additionally, archaeological evidence suggests intensified use of high-c . . .