[CINC] Perry & Glassow on SCI Chumash

[Marty Flam]

http://www.pomona.edu/news/2010/06/01-jennifer-perry-feature.aspx
 
Excerpt from June, 2010 Pomona College Magazine feature on Prof. Jennifer Perry, associate professor and chair of anthropology department, who has devoted more than a decade to finding and exploring ancient settlements on the Channel Islands:
 
Working on the eastern end of Santa Cruz Island, Perry has been exploring “how the terrestrial resources of the island were being used and more generally why people were living at interior sites,” says Michael Glassow, professor emeritus from UC Santa Barbara. Perry discovered archeological sites dating back 8,000 years—far earlier than others had anticipated, and her work is helping to change the way archeologists view how the Chumash lived. More than simple seafarers, they formed a complex society that became, in effect, the hub of a pre- Columbian regional economy.  “She is the first one to clearly recognize this temporal pattern, and I’m beginning to see the same pattern where I work in the western sector of the island,” says Glassow, who himself is an expert on island cultures and served as Perry’s dissertation advisor.
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