First Name: René L.Last Name: VellanowethPublications: YearPublication 1998"Earliest Island Fox Remains on the Southern Channel Islands: Evidence from San Nicolas Island, California" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 1999"Maritime Subsistence at a 9300 Year Old Shell Midden on Santa Rosa Island, California" in Journal of Field Archaeology 1999"Middle Holocene Fishing and Maritime Adaptations at CA-SNI-161, San Nicolas Island, California" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 2000"A Radiocarbon Chronology for the Arozena Site (CA-SBA-141), Eastern Santa Barbara County, California" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 2001"Radiocarbon Chronology for Corona Del Mar (CA-SBA-54): A Middle Holocene Site on the Goleta Slough, Santa Barbara County, California" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 2001"AMS Radiocarbon Dating and Shell Bead Chronologies: Middle Holocene Trade and Interaction in Western North America" in Journal of Archaeological Science 2001"Paleocoastal Marine Fishing on the Pacific Coast of the Americas: Perspectives from Daisy Cave, California" in American Antiquity 2002"On the Antiquity of the Single-Piece Shell Fishhook: AMS Radiocarbon Evidence from the Southern California Coast" in Journal of Archaeological Science 2003"Early New World maritime technologies: sea grass cordage, shell beads, and a bone tool from Cave of the Chimneys, San Miguel Island, California, USA" in Journal of Archaeological Science 2004"Coastal paleogeography and human land use at Tecolote Canyon, southern California, U.S.A." in Geoarchaeology 2005"Coastal Foraging at Otter Cave: A 6600-Year-Old Shell Midden on San Miguel Island, California" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 2005"Radiocarbon dating and the “old shell” problem: direct dating of artifacts and cultural chronologies in coastal and other aquatic regions" in Journal of Archaeological Science 2006"From Pleistocene Mariners to Complex Hunter-Gatherers: The Archaeology of the California Channel Islands" in Journal of World Prehistory 2006"Taphonomy and site formation on California's Channel Islands" in Geoarchaeology 2008A Canyon Through Time : Archaeology, History, and Ecology of the Tecolote Canyon Area, Santa Barbara County, California 2008Chapter 4 "Historical Ecology and Human Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems of the Santa Barbara Channel Region, California" in Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective 2008"Human impacts on ancient shellfish: a 10,000 year record from San Miguel Island, California" in Journal of Archaeological Science 2008"Dogs, humans and island ecosystems: the distribution, antiquity and ecology of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) on California's Channel Islands, USA" in The Holocene 2008"A double dog burial from San Nicolas Island, California, USA: osteology, context, and significance" in Journal of Archaeological Science 2009"Origins and antiquity of the island fox (Urocyon littoralis) on California's Channel Islands" in Quaternary Research 2010"The Use of Replicative Studies in Understanding the Function of Expedient Tools: The Sandstone Saws of San Nicolas Island, California" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 2010"Trauma and pathology of a buried dog from San Nicolas Island, California, U.S.A." in Journal of Archaeological Science 2010"Erratum to 'Trauma and pathology of a buried dog from San Nicolas Island, California, U.S.A.'" in Journal of Archaeological Science 2011"Changes in Marine Subsistence on San Miguel Island from 8,500 to 2,400 Years Ago: Analysis of Bulk Samples from Cave of the Chimneys (CA-SMI-603)" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 2011"10,000 years of human predation and size changes in the owl limpet (Lottia gigantea) on San Miguel Island, California" in Journal of Archaeological Science 2011"Where were the northern elephant seals? Holocene archaeology and biogeography of Mirounga angustirostris" in The Holocene 2013"Portable Religious Stone Features from a Ceremonial Complex on San Nicolas Island, California" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 2013"Geographic Information Systems as a Tool for Analyzing Intrasite Spatial Variability on San Nicolas Island" in California's Channel Islands : The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions 2013"From the Island of the Blue Dolphins: A Unique Nineteenth-Century Cache Feature From San Nicolas Island, California" in Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 2014"An Olivella Grooved Rectangle Bead Cluster from San Nicolas Island, California" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 2014"Sourcing archaeological asphaltum (bitumen) from the California Channel Islands to submarine seeps" in Journal of Archaeological Science 2014"Using non-dietary gastropods in coastal shell middens to infer kelp and seagrass harvesting and paleoenvironmental conditions" in Journal of Archaeological Science 2015"12,000 Years of Human Predation on Black Turban Snails (Chlorostoma funebralis) on Alta California's Northern Channel Islands" in California Archaeology 2015"Residue analysis links sandstone abraders to shell fishhook production on San Nicolas Island, California" in Journal of Archaeological Science 2016"The Nicoleños in Los Angeles: Documenting the Fate of the Lone Woman’s Community" in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 2016"Archaeology, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island" in Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Reader's Edition 2016"Tracking the origins and diet of an endemic island canid (Urocyon littoralis) across 7300 years of human cultural and environmental change" in Quaternary Science Reviews 2017"A Cache Within a Cache: Description of an Abalone “Treasure-Box” from the CA-SNI-14 Redwood Box Cache, San Nicolas Island, Alta California" in California Archaeology 2018"Residue analysis, use-wear patterns, and replicative studies indicate that sandstone tools were used as reamers when producing shell fishhooks on San Nicolas Island, California" in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 2018"Terminal Pleistocene-Holocene Avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands: Identifications of Previously Unidentified Avian Remains Recovered from Fossil Sites and Prehistoric Cave Deposits" in Western North American Naturalist 2019"The antiquity of pearling in the Americas: Pearl modification beginning at least 8,500 years ago in Baja California Sur, México" in Latin American Antiquity 2020"Spring tides, storm surges, and the destruction of coastal middens: A case study from the upper Gulf of California, México" in Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 2020"Reductions in the dietary niche of southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) from the Holocene to the Anthropocene" in Ecology and Evolution 2021"Material conveyance in the Southern California Bight: Obsidian on Alta California's Channel Islands" in Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 2021"Morphometric and stable isotope analysis of archaeological Totoaba macdonaldi otoliths, Baja California, México" in Quaternary International