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Lowell John Bean
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LOCATION: Oakland, CA, United States

BIOGRAPHY

Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Hayward. Author of Temalpah: An Ethnobotany of the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California; Mukat's People: An Ecological Study of the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California; and others.

Primary Contributions (1)
Distribution of Indigenous California peoples
California Indian, member of any of the Native American peoples who have traditionally resided in the area roughly corresponding to the present states of California (U.S.) and northern Baja California (Mex.). The peoples living in the California culture area at the time of first European contact in…
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