Thomas Blackburn Author & Editor

The late Travis Hudson was Curator of Anthropology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (1973-1985). A specialist on the Chumash people of California, he wrote numerous books, articles, and reports on the subject, as well as contributing papers on sailing technology, rock art, archaeoastronomy, and material culture. He coauthored, with Thomas Blackburn, the five volumes of The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere. Craig Bates is former Curator of Ethnography at the Yosemite Museum. A specialist in basketry, he is author of over 100 articles and monographs on western Native American material culture and history. Thomas Blackburn is emeritus professor of anthropology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA. He has published extensively on symbolic anthropology and the native peoples of California. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, and is the recipient of the Fredrickson Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for California Archaeology. John R. Johnson is Curator of Anthropology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and adjunct professor of anthropology at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. His research contributions include more than eighty studies devoted to California Indian prehistory and ethnohistory. Stephen D. Watrous is emeritus professor of history at Sonoma State University, USA, and an expert on the Russian experience in America.