Lynn H. Gamble

Lynn H. Gamble is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her interests include long distance exchange, cultural and ritual landscapes, social identity, shell bead money, culture contact, and long-term change among hunter-gatherers in California. She has directed excavations throughout southern California and most recently at a large shell mound on Santa Cruz Island. She recently edited a volume entitled First Coastal Californians and is the author of the book The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers and numerous articles and chapters on California archaeology.