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The antiquity of Olivella shell beads at CA-ORA-64: AMS radiocarbon dated between 9420 and 7780 cal BP by Erlandson, Jon M., Macko, Michael E., Koerper, Henry C., Southon, John

“…Investigations in the 1960s and 1970s showed the Irvine site (CA-ORA-64) to be among the oldest shell middens known from the Pacific Coast of North America…”
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Cultural Drift: A Primary Process of Culture Change by Koerper, Henry C., Stickel, E. Gary

“…The term "drift" is often conceptualized as a primary process of culture change. Whether or not perceived as a cultural analog of biology's genetic drift or…”
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Heizer, Strandt, and the Effigy Controversy by KOERPER, HENRY C., CHACE, PAUL G.

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Additional Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (AMS) Radiocarbon Assays on "Haliotis" Fishhooks From CA-ORA-378 by KOERPER, HENRY C., PRIOR, CHRISTINE, TAYLOR, R. E., GIBSON, ROBERT O.

“…AMS radiocarbon assays confirm that shell fishhook and line fishing was a feature of early Late Holocene and Intermediate Cultures period subsistence…”
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An Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (AMS) Radiocarbon Assay on a Bone "Hook Stone" by KOERPER, HENRY C., LABBÉ, ARMAND J., PRIOR, CHRISTINE, TAYLOR, R. E.

“…A San Nicolas Island "hook stone" manufactured of marine mammal bone was AMS dated to 3,480 ± 60 RCYBP. The vast majority of bird/pelican/hook stone effigies…”
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Morphological and Temporal Projectile Point Types: Evidence from Orange County, California by KOERPER, HENRY C., SCHROTH, ADELLA B., MASON, ROGER D.

“…Investigators in southern California often employ Great Basin and Mojave Desert projectile point chronologies to date their prehistoric assemblages. This…”
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Comment on Drover's Proposed Seasonality Method by KOERPER, HENRY C.

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Jasper Procurement, Trade, and Control in Orange County: Comments and Observations by KOERPER, HENRY C., ERICSON, JONATHON E., FIFE, DONALD L., SHACKLEY, M. STEVEN, SINGER, CLAY A., MINCH, JOHN A.

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A Bear-shaped Crescentic from Northern San Diego County, California by KOERPER, HENRY C., FARMER, MALCOLM F.

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The Little Ice Age and Coastal Southern California Human Economy by KOERPER, HENRY C., KILLINGLEY, JOHN S., TAYLOR, R. E.

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Horizon and Tradition on the Southern California Coast: A Rejoinder by KOERPER, HENRY C., DROVER, CHRISTOPHER E.

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The Catcher Was a Cahuilla: A Remembrance of John Tortes Meyers (1880-1971) by KOERPER, HENRY C.

“…NATIVE American athletes achieved their greatest recognition in modern sports during the period from the turn of the century through the 1920s (Oxendine 1988)…”
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Cowry Shells: Fertility/Fecundity Symbols In Southern California Iconography by KOERPER, HENRY C.

“…Ornamental employment of Chestnut Cowry (Cypraea spadicea) shell artifacts in southern California prehistory included inlay work set into the rims of mortars…”
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The Late Prehistoric Coastal Orange County Hokan Hypothesis: A Commentary by KOERPER, HENRY C., MASON, ROGER D.

“…Cottrell's doctoral dissertation (1991) proposes that Hokan speakers occupied an approximately 20 km wide coastal strip in southern Orange County at the time…”
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A Birdstone and Phallic Pestle Cache from CA-ORA-365 by DESAUTELS, NANCY A., KOERPER, HENRY C., COUCH, JEFFREY S.

“…This study describes a ceremonial cache containing miniature pestle-like artifacts, a "spike" fragment, an obsidian biface, and a steatite birdstone recovered…”
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Implications of Ritual Biface Caches from the Irvine Site by MACKO, MICHAEL E., COUCH, JEFFREY S., KOERPER, HENRY C.

“…Excavations at the Irvine site (CA-ORA-64) yielded two unusual cache features, each containing a pair of large ceremonial bifaces, but one of these caches also…”
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A Game String and Rabbit Stick Cache from Borrego Valley, San Diego County by KOERPER, HENRY C.

“…This report describes a game string and rabbit stick discovered cached together in the Borrego Valley of San Diego County. Perforated ceramic discs forming…”
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AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Shell Beads and Ornaments from CA-ORA-378 by GIBSON, ROBERT O., KOERPER, HENRY C.

“…Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates for nine shell beads and two shell ornaments are used to test the application to Orange County of a temporal sequence…”
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Patayan Anthropomorphic Figurines from an Orange County Site by KOERPER, HENRY C., HEDGES, KEN

“…Southern Tradition anthropomorphic figurines found at the Banning-Norris site (CA-ORA-58) exhibit stylistic elements reflecting Hohokam and possibly Prescott…”
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Arrow Projectile Point Types as Temporal Types: Evidence from Orange County, California by KOERPER, HENRY C., SCHROTH, ADELLA B., MASON, ROGER D., PETERSON, MARK L.

“…Issues of arrow projectile point morphology, chronometrics, and time-space systematics for southern coastal California are addressed using data from the…”
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