The Long Shore

Marco Meniketti is a Professor and senior archaeologist at San Jose State University in California. He has received the Vogel Prize from the Society for Industrial Archeology and the SJSU College of Social Science award for Excellence in Teaching and is the 2020 recipient of the Austen D. Warburton Award of Merit by the College of Social Science at San Jose State University. From 2017–20 he served as Chair of the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology.

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List of Figures

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Preface



Introduction: The Long Shore. Perspectives on Maritime Cultural Landscapes

Marco Meniketti



Part I: Before the Invasion. The Indigenous Maritime World: Ancient Landscapes



Chapter 1. Marine Cultural Heritage, Landscapes, and the Human Dimension of Marine Ecosystems: Building Bridges Between Marine and Social Science: Chumash

Amy Gusick, Jillian Maloney, Todd Braje, Shannon Klotsko, Jon Erlandson, Luke Johnson



Chapter 2. Life at Tsiyiwi (CA-SLO-51/H), A Northern Chumash Maritime Community on the Pecho Coast of Central California

Terry Jones and Brian Codding



Chapter 3. The Drake’s Bay Historic and Archaeological District: Encounters at tamàl-húye

Mathew Russell



Part II: Immigrant Communities and Economies



Chapter 4. California’s Nineteenth Century Chinese Fisheries and the Dawn of Commercial Abalone Fishing

Todd Braje and Linda Bentz



Chapter 5. Feluccas on the San Francisco Bay: Italian Fishermen and the Meaning of Community and the Mediterranean Connection

Marco Meniketti



Chapter 6. A Case Study of the Portuguese and Shore Whaling Linking the Azores to California

Catherine Mistely, Karen Johannson, and Marco Meniketti



Part III: Opportunistic Industry and Enterprises



Chapter 7. Repurposing and Reusing Ships

Sheli Smith



Chapter 8. The Redwood Coast’s Doghole Ports: The Interplay Between Resource Extraction, Shipping, and Community

Deborah Marx and Denise Jaffke



Epilogue

Amy Gusick



Index