Jon Erlandson

About

Jon Erlandson is an Adjunct Professor and the Director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon. He is associated with the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His specialization includes roles as a Professor and Director, with a focus on natural and cultural history. His contact information includes an email address at the University of Oregon and a profile link to the university's anthropology department. The page indicates his involvement in academic and museum leadership roles, emphasizing his contributions to anthropology and natural history.

Research topics

• Archaeology
• Geography
• Geology
• Ecology
• Oceanography

Selected publications

• Earliest Evidence for Geophyte Use in North America: 11,500-Year-Old Archaeobotanical Remains from California's Santarosae Island

  American Antiquity · 2021-05-14 · 21 citations

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  There is growing evidence for human use of geophytes long before the advent of agriculture. Rich in carbohydrates, geophytes were important in many coastal areas where protein-rich marine foods are abundant. On California's Channel Islands, scholars have long questioned how maritime peoples sustained themselves for millennia with limited plant resources. Recent research demonstrates that geophytes were heavily used on the islands for 10,000 years, and here we describe geophyte and other archaeob…

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• Coring, profiling, and trenching: Archaeological field strategies for investigating the Pleistocene-Holocene-Anthropocene continuum

  Quaternary International · 2022-03-03 · 12 citations

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  Archaeologists have long emphasized the importance of large-scale excavations and multi-year or even decades-long projects at a single site or site complex. Here, we highlight archaeological field strategies, termed coring, profiling, and trenching (CPT), that rely on relatively small-scale excavations or the collection of new samples from intact deposits in previously excavated trenches (aka test units or pits). Examples from multiple sites in Africa, Asia, and North America demonstrate that CP…

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• A Paleocoastal Western Stemmed Tradition Variant from the California Channel Islands

  University of Utah Press eBooks · 2024-05-31 · 2 citations

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• Island of Hope

  University Press of Florida eBooks · 2024-04-16 · 2 citations

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  Tuqan (a.k.a. San Miguel) Island, totaling just 37 km² and situated 44 km off the Southern California Coast, has been occupied by people for at least 13,000 years, a period in which the geography and ecosystems of the island have changed dramatically. Early historical accounts described Tuqan as a marginal and windswept island with limited fresh water, terrestrial plants and animals, and other resources, an island that supported a small and relatively impoverished Island Chumash popul…

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• Islands of Resilience

  University Press of Florida eBooks · 2024-04-16 · 1 citations

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  We discuss the deep history of human societies in island settings, the effects island peoples had in altering the insular landscapes and ecosystems they have inhabited for centuries or millennia, and how archaeology can contribute to our understanding of long-term human resilience and sustainability on islands around the world. Among the paradigmatic approaches we discuss are resilience theory, historical ecology, niche construction theory, and human behavioral ecology, all of which provide arch…

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Recent grants

• Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Paleocoastal Seasonality on California's Northern Channel Islands: Shellfish Harvesting and Isotopic Signatures of Sedentism vs. Mobility

  NSF · $15k · 2012–2013

• Colonization, Ecology, and Adaptive Adjustments of Paleocoastal Peoples on California's Northern Channel Islands

  NSF · $99k · 2009–2012

• Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Archaeology, Human Impacts, and Historical Ecology on San Miguel Island, California

  NSF · $12k · 2006–2008

Frequent coauthors

• Torben C. Rick

  National Museum of Natural History

  169 shared

• Todd J. Braje

  University of Oregon

  111 shared

• Kristina M. Gill

  44 shared

• Douglas J. Kennett

  40 shared

• René L. Vellanoweth

  California State University Los Angeles

  34 shared

• Madonna L. Moss

  28 shared

• Scott M. Fitzpatrick

  24 shared

• Nicholas P. Jew

  University of Oregon

  20 shared

Education

• PhD, Anthropology

  University of California

  1988

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