Social Sciences Department faculty conduct research in the areas of global studies and international development, environmental studies and sustainability, human ecology, criminal justice, organizational structures, and social services.

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Submissions from 2017

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Review of Shellfish for the Celestial Empire: The Rise and Fall of Commercial Abalone Fishing in California, Terry L. Jones

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The Morro Bay Fauna: Evidence for a Medieval Droughts Refugium on the Central California Coast, Terry L. Jones, Deborah A. Jones, Kacey Hadick, Kenneth W. Gobalet, Judith F. Porcasi, and William R. Hildebrandt

Submissions from 2016

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Resource scarcity drives lethal aggression among prehistoric hunter-gatherers in central California, Mark W. Allen, Robert Lawrence Bettinger, Brian F. Codding, Terry L. Jones, and Al W. Schwitalla

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Resource Scarcity Drives Lethal Aggression Among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in Central California, Mark W. Allen, Robert Lawrence Bettinger, Brian F. Codding, Terry L. Jones, and Al W. Schwitalla

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The archaeology of fish and fishing on the central coast of California: The case for an under-exploited resource, Terry L. Jones, Kenneth W. Gobalet, and Brian F. Codding

Submissions from 2014

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Violence among foragers: The bioarchaeological record from central California, Al W. Schwitalla, Terry L. Jones, Marin A. Pilloud, Brian F. Codding, and Randy S. Wiberg

Submissions from 2012

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Genetic Diversity and Population Parameters of Sea Otters, Enhydra lutris, before Fur Trade Extirpation from 1741–1911, Shawn Larson, Ron Jameson, Michael Etnier, Terry L. Jones, and Roberta Hall

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Slow Tourism at the Caribbean's Geographical Margins, Benjamin F. Timms and Dennis Conway

Submissions from 2011

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Review of Kathleen L. Hull, Pestilence and Persistence: Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial California, Terry L. Jones

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Toward a Prehistory of the Southern Sea Otter (Enhydra lutis nereis), Terry L. Jones, Brendan J. Culleton, Shawn Larson, Sarah Mellinger, and Judith F. Porcasi

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Urbanization and Daughter-Biased Parental Investment in Fiji, Dawn B. Neill

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Where were the northern elephant seals? Holocene archaeology and biogeography of Mirounga angustirostris, Torben C. Rick, Robert L. DeLong, Jon M. Erlandson, Todd J. Braje, Terry L. Jones, Jeanne E. Arnold, Matthew R. Des Lauriers, William R. Hildebrandt, Douglas J. Kennett, Rene L. Vellanoweth, and Thomas A. Wake

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The (Mis)Use of Disaster as Opportunity: Coerced Relocation from Celaque National Park, Honduras, Benjamin F. Timms