Kent G. Lightfoot's research while affiliated with University of California, Berkeley and other places

... Coastal landscapes and marine resources feature prominently in Native Californian cultural lifeways, serving dietary, symbolic, and ritual purposes (Luby and Gruber, 1999;Gamble, 2017;Lightfoot et al., 2017). Archaeological evidence from the California coast provides a record of~12,000 years of human relationships with fauna, flora, algae, and a variety of abiotic resources (Jones and Hildebrandt, 1990;Jones, 1991;Erlandson, 2007;Hildebrandt et al., 2009;Tushingham, 2009;Jones and Perry, 2012;Erlandson et al., 2015;Gill, 2015;Tushingham et al., 2016;Ainis et al., 2019;Gill et al., 2021;Lightfoot et al., 2021;Rick et al., 2022). Given the time depth of Indigenous peoples' engagement with coastal resources, the cultural diversity of Native California, and differences in the socio-political organization, researchers encounter significant variation in human-environmental relationships with coastal resources across space and through time. ...

... Despite being connected to the mainland until about 11,000 years ago and being the western edge of a formerly exposed valley, no prehistoric sites have been identified on the Farallon Islands (Riddell 1955;Wake and Graesch 1999;Rick et al. 2019). The Farallones have seen limited archaeological attention, with just three archaeological projects on the island, all of which focused on Historic period occupation. ...

... Other researchers, confronted with the inability of so many societies that exhibited elements of both egalitarianism and hierarchy to neatly fit within either the alpha (egalitarian) or omega (hierarchical) categories, took a different tack by retaining egalitarianism and hierarchy at both ends of the spectrum and lumping the rest in an intermediate category variously termed transegalitarian (e.g., Blake, 1989, 1994;Hayden, 1995), middle range societies (e.g., Feinman and Neitzel, 1984;Lightfoot and Upham, 1989), etc. However, here again, as previously noted by Spielmann (1994), the fly in the ointment is the great variability inherent in the cases that actually fall within these intermediate categories. ...

... This information is tied to modern wildlife research and management practices that would serve contemporary fish and wildlife management given that human influences on species "natural" habitats and ecological baselines extends much further into the past than current ecological baselines and wildlife management strategies traditionally recognize. , are among the oldest examples of shell and earthen mounds located in the San Francisco Bay Area and California Delta, respectively (Lightfoot and Luby 2002;Luby et al. 2006;Moratto 1984). Most important to discussions of wildlife management, faunal assemblages from these sites suggest Native Californians relied on a mosaic of resources from different habitats, especially the San Francisco Bay, freshwater and saltwater marshes, riparian forests, and grasslands (Broughton 1994a;Meyer and Rosenthal 1997;White 2003a,b). ...

... Archaeological sites along the California coast also include complex mounded landscapes, such as those found on the Channel Islands and the San Francisco Bay Area (Lightfoot and Luby, 2012;Gamble, 2017). These archaeological sites provide evidence for a range of human-environmental interactions that suggest instances of local resource depression, while in others, evidence suggests that Indigenous people engaged with terrestrial and marine resources in sustainable ways, possibly increasing the resilience of coastal ecosystems (Broughton, 1994;Whitaker, 2009;Cuthrell et al., 2012;Cuthrell, 2013a;Broughton et al., 2015;Sanchez et al., 2018;Grone, 2020). ...

... Buried linear adobe wall features appearing in GPR transect profiles are most evident when perpendicular to the transect, though oblique ( Figure 19) and parallel crossings ( Figure 20) are also informative, but sometimes less clearly identified. An archaeological GPR survey of the Mission Sonoma northern area is discussed in detail in a more extensive and comparative approach to geophysical interpretation at the site [23]. The partnership between State Parks, UC Berkeley, and the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria tested the hypothesized extension of mission-era architecture beyond the current wall around park buildings. ...

... Palabras clave: colonialismo español, ganadería colonial, paisaje fronteriza, ganadería indígena, ganado semiferal A rchaeologies of colonialism have undergone major shifts in perspectives in the past two decades. One of the most significant developments has been the longitudinal studies of Indigenous persistence (Lightfoot and Gonzalez 2018;Panich and Schneider 2014;Silliman 2012) and an increasing attention to how introduced species contributed to Indigenous socioeconomic change and independence (Bethke 2017; Fowles et al. 2017; Montgomery 2019). Archaeologists have long acknowledged the profound impacts livestock have had on Spanish colonial ecology and society in North America, with particular attention to ethnogenesis, subsistence, landscape change, and labor (Allen 2010;Freiwald and Pugh 2018;Jones 2018;Pavao-Zuckerman et al. 2018;Reitz et al. 2010;Sunseri 2017). ...

... The spatial scales employed in these analyses, however, are less appropriate for examining intensification of land use and food procurement in the Valley of Oaxaca before and after the foundation of Monte Albán with a focus on the city and its immediate hinterland. For the present analysis we examine the relationship between changing population and agrarian resources using 10-km-radius circles-a distance easily traversed in a day's round-trip on foot (e.g., Lightfoot, 1979;Drennan, 1984). Without beasts of burden or wheeled transport in prehispanic Mesoamerica, there were limits on how far food could be transported. ...

... While mounds have long been the focus of archaeological investigation (Ford and Willey 1941;Moore 1894;Squier and Davis 1848), many such features remain hidden Sanger 2019a, Davis, Sanger, andLipo 2019b;Johnson and Ouimet 2014;Witharana, Ouimet, and Johnson 2018). Mounds have provided insight into demographic change, human-environmental interaction, social organization, and site formation in this region (Anderson 2012;Brennan 1977;Claassen 1986;Davis et al. 2020;Lightfoot and Cerrato 1989;Peacock and Rafferty 2013;Peacock, Rafferty, and Hogue 2005;Reitz 1988;Sanger et al. 2019;Thompson et al. 2016). However, the coastline of Eastern North America, with its gently sloping bathymetry and extensive watersheds that lead to the ocean, is at high-risk of becoming a disappeared landscape, as sea levels continue to rise (Anderson et al. 2017; NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) 2015; also see Mississippi River Delta Archaeological Mitigation (MRDAM) Consortium [https://userweb.ucs.louisiana.edu/ ...

... It has been convincingly argued that the terminology has primarily been used to move the boundary between hunting and gathering and farming to absorb intermediate groups as hunter-gatherers (Smith 2001). This places them in a transitional evolutionary stage which masks the potential range of behavioural adaptations within hunter-gatherer societies independent of any evolutionary connection to the Neolithic (Lightfoot et al. 2011). As argued by Artemova, no hunter-gatherer society in the ethnographic present shows any signs of making the sort of transitions seen in the Natufian or early Neolithic (Artemova 2020), placing these past societies outside our common contemporary understanding of hunter-gatherers. ...