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The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers (1st Edition) by Lynn H. Gamble Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-520-25441-4 / 0520254414 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25441-1 / 9780520254411 When Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash, a people who at that time were among the most advanced hunter-gatherer societies in the world. The Spanish were entertained and fed at lavish feasts h |