@article {133,
	title = {Re-evaluating the origins of late Pleistocene fire areas on Santa Rosa Island, California, USA},
	journal = {Quaternary Research},
	volume = {78},
	year = {2012},
	note = {id: 2301},
	pages = {353-362},
	abstract = {At the close of the Pleistocene, fire regimes in North America changed significantly in response to climate change, megafaunal extinctions, anthropogenic burning and, possibly, even an extraterrestrial impact. On California{\textquoteright}s Channel Islands, researchers have long debated the nature of late Pleistocene {\textquotedblleft}fire areas,{\textquotedblright} discrete red zones in sedimentary deposits, interpreted by some as prehistoric mammoth-roasting pits created by humans. Further research found no evidence that these red zones were cultural in origin, and two hypotheses were advanced to explain their origin: natural fires and groundwater processes. Radiocarbon dating, X-ray diffraction analysis, and identification of charcoal from six red zones on Santa Rosa Island suggest that the studied features date between ~ 27,500 and 11,400 cal yr BP and resulted from burning or heating, not from groundwater processes. Our results show that fire was a component of late Pleistocene Channel Island ecology prior to and after human colonization of the islands, with no clear evidence for increased fire frequency coincident with Paleoindian settlement, extinction of pygmy mammoths, or a proposed Younger Dryas impact event.},
	issn = {0033-5894},
	doi = {10.1016/j.yqres.2012.06.006},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589412000786},
	author = {Rick, Torben C. and Wah, John S. and Erlandson, Jon M.}
}
@inbook {1389,
	title = {Resilience and reorganization: Archaeology and the historical ecology of California Channel Island sea mammals},
	booktitle = {Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters},
	year = {2011},
	note = {id: 2068},
	month = {2011},
	publisher = {University of California Press},
	organization = {University of California Press},
	isbn = {9780520267268},
	author = {Braje, Todd J. and Rick, Torben C. and DeLong, Robert L. and Erlandson, Jon M.},
	editor = {Rick, T. C.}
}
@article {992,
	title = {Reassessing human settlement on the south coast of San Miguel Island, California: The use of 14C dating as a reconnaissance tool},
	journal = {Radiocarbon},
	volume = {47},
	year = {2005},
	note = {id: 579},
	pages = {11-19},
	abstract = {Californias San Miguel Island contains over 600 archaeological sites, some occupied as early as 12,000 yr ago
and most located along the islands north coast. Archaeologists have long believed the south coast to have been marginal or
largely uninhabited. Burial of some landforms by sand dunes deposited after historical overgrazing, the lack of systematic survey,
and a dearth of radiocarbon dating have also contributed to an underestimation of the intensity of human land use along
the south coast of San Miguel Island. Our recent reconnaissance and dating of shell middens on the islands south coast indicate
more intensive occupation than previously thought, with numerous south coast sites spanning at least the past 9000 yr,
and demonstrate the utility of combining systematic archaeological reconnaissance and radiometrics in reconstructions of
human settlement and historical ecology in coastal environments.},
	url = {https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/2795/2560},
	author = {Braje, Todd J. and Erlandson, Jon M. and Rick, Torben C.}
}
