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Christian Iceland, and are unique for several reasons: there are a host of written records and sagas associated with the farm and its earliest inhabitants, and the fact that the deposits had remained undisturbed. The archaeological evidence at that site showed correlations to the sagas, including the movement of bodies from previous pagan burials to the new Christian graveyard associated with the recently constructed church and the presence of violence related to blood feuds. Finally, the sites included the first archaeological evidence for cremation discovered in Iceland, a common mortuary ritual elsewhere in the Viking world. Before this discovery, the lack of cremation evidence was a source of debates on the initial settlers of Iceland.
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ecosystems. He has won several awards for outstanding teaching and research, as well as for his mentoring of minority students. Discover
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Barbara, California, and enjoyed many different water-based activities, including swimming, surfing and sailing. He moved to Alaska in 1982, and also lived in Washington and Oregon before retiring to California in 2023. In 1989-90 Erlandson worked to protect archaeological
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in 1980. He then completed his M.A. and Ph.D. from the same university in
Archaeology. Erlandson also was a founding co-editor of the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. He has also published more than 400 scholarly articles and edited or written 29 books. In 2013, Erlandson was elected to the
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Age, from the early 10th to mid-12th
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support a wide variety of resources that could have supported the earliest inhabitants of North and South
America, including the kelp itself, sea mammals, fish and shellfish. This marine highway would have also protected people travelling from the harsher wave conditions of the open sea. Although
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that date to ~14,000 years ago, before the ice-free corridor appears to have opened. In a collaboration between archaeologists and marine ecologists, Erlandson explored the idea of a coastal route into the
Americas along the Pacific Coast. This migration route followed a âkelp highwayââa line of
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of coastal environments. Distinguishing natural from cultural deposits and the rates in which shell and bone disappear from the archaeological record, or taphonomy, are also important issues. Erlandson points out that even with these challenges, there is still archaeological evidence for earlier
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University of Alaska Fairbanks before joining the faculty at the University of Oregon. His collaborative efforts with marine biologists and ecologists have inspired him to become involved in policy issues about the conservation biology of endangered coastal fisheries and
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Erlandson, Jon M. (2013) "Shell
Middens and other Anthropogenic Soils as Global Stratigraphic Signatures for the Anthropocene." In When Humans Dominated the Earth: Archeological Perspectives on the Anthropocene, edited by J.M. Erlandson & T.J. Braje. Anthropocene 4:24â32.
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people from at least 9500 years ago until they were removed from the islands around AD 1820. The Channel Islands are also a place to explore relationships between human adaptations and changes in the environment. Erlandson and others have explored the diet of the Island
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Moss, Madonna L. & J.M. Erlandson (2002) Animal agency and coastal archaeology. American Antiquity 67:367-369. Erlandson, Jon M. & M.L. Moss (2001) Shellfish Eaters, Carrion Feeders, and the Archaeology of Aquatic Adaptations. American Antiquity 66:413â432.
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difficult to evaluate with archaeological evidence due to the rising sea levels after the last Glacial Maximum, Erlandson has summarized extensive evidence for early maritime activity along the Pacific Coast of the Americas, including Californiaâs
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Erlandson, Jon and Todd J. Braje (2012) âFoundations for the Far West: Paleoindian Cultures on the Western Fringe of North Americaâ in The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology ed. Pauketat, Timothy R. Oxford University Press
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Erlandson, Jon M., Torben C. Rick, & René L. Vellanoweth (2008) A Canyon Through Time: The Archaeology, History, and Ecology of Tecolote Canyon, Santa Barbara County, California. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
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Erlandson, Jon M. & Todd J. Braje (volume editors) (2008) Tracking Technologies: Contributions to Understanding Technological Change on Californiaâs Channel Islands. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 40(1).
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Erlandson, Jon M., Torben C. Rick, and Todd J. Braje (2009) âFishing up the Food Web?: 12,000 Years of Maritime Subsistence and Adaptive Adjustments on Californiaâs Channel Islandsâ Pacific Science Vol. 63. Issue 4:711â724
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societies that used aquatic resources were among the most complex and had higher populations than terrestrial hunter-gatherers. Research on the antiquity of maritime societies is complicated by various problems within the
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Erlandson, Jon M., Torben C. Rick, and Todd J. Braje (2009) âFishing up the Food Web?: 12,000 Years of Maritime Subsistence and Adaptive Adjustments on Californiaâs Channel Islandsâ Pacific Science Vol. 63. Issue 4 pp.
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Jones, T.L., R.T. Fitzgerald, D.J. Kennett, C. Micsicek, J. Fagan, J. Sharp, & J.M. Erlandson *2002 The Cross Creek Site (CA-SLO-1797) and its Implications for New World Colonization. American Antiquity 67:213â230.
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Erlandson, Jon McVey (1988) Of Millingstones and Molluscs: The Cultural Ecology of Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherers on the California Coast. Ph.D. Dissertation, UCSB. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor.
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Erlandson, Jon M. and Torben C. Rick (2010) âArchaeology Meets Marine Ecology: The Antiquity of Maritime Cultures and Human Impacts on Marine Fisheries and Ecosystemsâ Annual Review of Marine Science Vol. 2 pp.
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Erlandson, Jon M. et al. (2007) âThe Kelp Highway Hypothesis: Marine Ecology, the Coastal Migration Theory, and the Peopling of the Americasâ Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology Vol. 2 Issue 2 pp.161-174
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Erlandson, Jon M. and Torben C. Rick (2010) âArchaeology Meets Marine Ecology: The Antiquity of Maritime Cultures and Human Impacts on Marine Fisheries and Ecosystemsâ Annual Review of Marine Science 2:165â185
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Erlandson, Jon M. and Michael A. Glassow (editors) (1997) The Archaeology of the California Coast during the Middle Holocene. Los Angeles: Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Gill, Kristina M., Mikael Fauvelle, & Jon M. Erlandson (editors) (2019) An Archaeology of Abundance: Reevaluating the Marginality of California's Islands. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
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Rick, Torben C., J.M. Erlandson, & R. Vellanoweth (2001) Paleocoastal Marine Fishing on the Pacific Coast of the Americas: Perspectives from Daisy Cave, California. American Antiquity 66:595â614.
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Braje, Todd, D.J. Kennett, J.M. Erlandson, & B. Culleton (2007) Human Impacts on Nearshore Shellfish Taxa: A 7,000 Year Record from Santa Rosa Island, California. American Antiquity 72:735â756.
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Erlandson, Jon M. & Terry Jones (editors) (2002) Catalysts to Complexity: The Late Holocene on the California Coast. Los Angeles: Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Erlandson, Jon M. (1984) A Case Study in Faunalturbation: Delineating the Effects of the Burrowing Pocket Gopher on the Distribution of Archaeological Materials. American Antiquity 49:785â790.
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Erlandson, Jon M. & Sarah B. McClure (text editors) (2010) 10,000 Years of Shoes: With Photos by Brian Lanker. Eugene: University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
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Braje, Todd, Jon Erlandson, & Torben Rick (2021) Islands Through Time: A Human and Ecological History of California's Northern Channel Islands. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
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Moss, Madonna L., Jon M. Erlandson, & Robert Stuckenrath (1989) The Antiquity of Tlingit Settlement on Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska. American Antiquity 54(3):534â543.
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Walker, Phillip L. & Jon M. Erlandson (1986) Dental Evidence for Prehistoric Dietary Change on the Northern Channel Islands, California. American Antiquity 50: 375â383.
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2 in Chile, contained several types of seaweed. Erlandson believes that much more is to be learned from the growing number of submerged coastal sites found on the world's
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Connolly, Thomas, Jon M. Erlandson, & Susan E. Norris (1995) Early Holocene Basketry from Daisy Cave, San Miguel Island, California. American Antiquity 60:309â318.
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Moss, Madonna L. and Jon M. Erlandson (editors) (1992) Beyond Culture Areas: Relationships Between Maritime Cultures of Southern Alaska. Arctic Anthropology Volume 29.
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Rick, Torben C. & Jon M. Erlandson (editors) (2008) Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Erlandson, Jon M. & Todd J. Braje (editors) (2013) When Humans Dominated Earth: Archeological Perspectives on the Anthropocene. Anthropocene Special Issue.
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Erlandsonâs collaborative work in the Mosfell Valley of Iceland is another example of interdisciplinary research he has been involved in. Working with
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