Table of Contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Scope and Purpose
• Anthropological Background
• Nature of the Problem
• Current Research
• Description of Study Area and Archaeological Data
• Summary
• Chapter 2. Environmental Background
• Scope and Purpose
• Study Area and Sites: Character and Location
• Geology, Geomorphology and Soils
• Present Climate
• Paleoclimate and Prehistoric Dynamics of Pinon Woodland
• Specific Vegetation Patterns
• Food Plants
• Animal Resources
• Toolstones
• Summary
• Chapter 3. Anthropological Background
• Scope and Purpose
• Methods of Linguistic Prehistory
• Ethnography and Ethnogeography
• Archaeological Background
• Summary
• Chapter 4. Chronology
• Scope and Purpose
• Introduction
• Chronology
• Obsidian Hydration Dating
• Projectile Points
• Ceramics
• Dating of Site Components
• Summary
• Chapter 5. Prehistoric Settlement Types, Territory, and Boundaries
• Scope and Purpose
• Classification of Site Loci
• Dating the Loci
• Territoriality, Boundaries, and Cultural Evolution
• Crestal Versus Interior Site Loci: Settlement Types, Distribution, and Dating
• Distance Limitations on Contrasting Subsistence Territories
• Toolstone Materials
• Rock Art Styles
• Cultural Sequence
• Summary
• Chapter 6. Linguistic Archaeology
• Scope and Purpose
• Evaluation of In-Place Versus Replacement Models
• Resolution and Interpretaion of Coso Obsidian Hydration Chronologies
• The Tubatulabal Pattern - Evidence for Autochthonous Developments
• The Numic Pattern - Evidence for Late In-Migration and Population Displacement
• The Pre-Numic Pattern - In Situ Cultural Development and Disruption
• Numic Continuity or Population Replacement?
• Coso Representational Petroglyphs and the Numic Intrusion
• Evaluation of Models of Numic Population Movements
• Summary
• Chapter 7. Conclusions

Alan Garfinkel is a staff archaeologist for the California Department of Transportation in Fresno, California. He is a member of the Maturango Museum and has been actively involved in studies of California prehistory since 1970. He lives in Kern County with his wife, children, and a menagerie of pets.

"Archaeology and Rock Art... advances our knowledge of early human societies in eastern California... Although the vast California/Great Basin literature includes myriad reports of 'archaeological' or rock-art research, it is rare to find the two so thoroughly and so effectively integrated. In this sense and many others, Garfinkel has produced a book worthy of emulation."
           --   Michael Moratto, Senior Archaeologist, Applied Earthworks, Inc.

"An important follow-up work to our seminal contribution on Coso rock art. For all those who have an interest in this subject, this is a must read. Fascinating, well written, and informative".
           --   J. Kenneth Pringle, co-author, Rock Drawings of the Coso Range

"The Southern Nevada are known primarily as a vacation area today, with their archaeological importance virtually unknown. Dr Garfinkel does an outstanding job of correcting this perception, integrating archaeological and ethnographic data from a wide variety of sources to create a picture of human occupation and population movement here on the southwestern edge of the Great Basin. This book is certainly destined to become the standard work on the area".
           --   Alexander K. Rogers, Curator of Archaeology, Maturango Museum