Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles from Clovis to Nixon

Bibliography for Ab Urbe Condita

The narrative essay Ab Urbe Condita: From the Origins of the City, threads through many topics that overlap with other essays and bibliographies of Ghost Metropolis.  It's bibliographic source material has its own coherence in the service of interested readers. Please also consult the longer subject-area bibliographies to investigate related topics.

Barnosky, Anthony D., Paul L. Koch, Robert S. Feranec, Scott L. Wing, Alan B. Shabel, “Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents,” Science 306 (1 October 2004): 70-75.

Brook, Barry W., and David M.J.S. Bowman, “Explaining the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions: Models, Chronologies, and Assumptions,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [PNAS] 10 (4 November 2002), pp. 14624-14627.

Clay, Karen and Werner Troesken, (2005). “Ranchos and the Politics of Land Claims,” in

Deverell and Hise (2005), pp. 52-66.

Erie, Steven. (2004) Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Dennis L. Jenkins, Anders Götherstrom, et al. (2008) “Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon, North America.” Science (3 April) [DOI: 10.1126/science.1154116].

Goebel, Ted, Michael R. Waters, and Dennis H. O’Rourke, “The Late Pleistocene Dispersal of Modern Humans in the Americas,” Science 319 (14 March 2008): 1497-1502.

Grayson, Donald, and John Alroy, “Did Human Hunting Cause Mass Extinction?,” Science 294 (16 November 2001): 1459-1462.


Hackel, Steven. (2005) Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Halberstam, David. (2000) The Powers that Be. Champaign, Ill: University of Illinois Press. [first published by Knopf, 1975].

Haynes, Gary. (2002) “The catastrophic extinction of North American mammoths and mastodonts,” World Archaeology 33:3, pp. 391-416.

Hickey, Dave. (2009) The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, revised and expanded. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hinton, Leanne. “Takic and Yuman: A Study in Phonological Convergence,” International Journal of American Linguistics, 57: 2 (Apr., 1991): 133-157.

Jones, Terry L., J. F. Porcasi, et al, “The protracted Holocene extinction of California’s flightless sea duck (Chendytes lawi) and its implications of the Pleistocene overkill hypothesis,” PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:11 (18 March 2008): 4105-4108.

Koerper, H.C. (1979) “On the Question of the Chronological Placement of Shonshonean Presence in Orange County California,” Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 15:3, pp. 69-84.

Kroeber, Alfred. (1925) Handbook of the Indians of California Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin 78 Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C.

Lightfoot, Kent G. (2005) Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).

McCawley, William. (1996) The First Angelinos: The Gabrielino Indians of Los Angeles. Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press / Ballena Press Cooperative Publication.

McDougal, Dennis. (2001) Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty. Cambridge, Mass: Perseus Publishing.

Poser, William J. (1995) “Binary Comparison and the History of Hokan Comparative Studies,” International Journal of American Linguistics. 61:1 (Jan.): 135-144.

Ríos-Bustamante, Antonio. (1991) Los Ángeles, pueblo y region, 1781-1850. México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Anthropología e Historia.

Sandos, James A. (2004) Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions New Haven: Yale University Press.

Waters, Michael R. and Thomas W. Stafford Jr., “Redefining the Age of Clovis: Implications for the Peopling of the Americas,” Science 315 (23 February 2007): 1122-26.


Weber, David J. (2005) Bárbaros: Spaniards and their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. New Haven: Yale University Press.





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