CONTRIBUTIONS OF ROBERT F. HEIZER

TO CALIFORNIA ETHNOHISTORY.

William S. Simmons
Polly McW. Bickel

Editors

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY

Department of Anthropology

University of California

Berkeley CA 94720

TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT F. HEIZER, 1915-1979.

CONTRIBUTIONS OF ROBERT F. HEIZER

TO CALIFORNIA ETHNOHISTORY.

William S. Simmons
Polly McW. Bickel

Editors

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY

Department of Anthropology

University of California

Berkeley CA 94720

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction and Acknowledgment,

William S. Simmons and Polly McW. Bickel                 i

R. F. Heizer and the Handbook of North American Indians,

William C. Sturtevant                                    1

Correcting False Truths: Robert Heizer's View of the
Need for Ethnohistory in California Anthropology,

Polly McW. Bickel                                        7
Some Byways of R. F. Heizer's Ethnohistoric Research,

Albert B. Elsasser                                      15

R. F. Heizer and the Merriam Collection,

Martin A. Baumhoff                                      19

Hunting, Gathering and Harvesting the Native American

Fields in California: An Appreciation of Robert Heizer's
Contributions to Ethnohistory

Lowell John Bean                                        23

References Cited

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