In the Eastern fluted point tradition / edited by Joseph A. M. Gingerich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gingerich, Joseph A. M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleo-Indians--Implements--East (U.S.).

Paleo-Indians.

Projectile points--East (U.S.).

Projectile points.

Stone implements--East (U.S.).

Stone implements.

East (U.S.)--Antiquities.

East (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eastern North America has one of the largest inventories of Paleoindian sites anywhere in the Americas.Despite this rich record of early human settlement during the late Pleistocene, there are few widely published reports or summaries of Paleoindian research in the region.

Contents:

""Contents ""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction ""; ""I. Paleoindian Chronology and Paleoenvironmental Considerations ""; ""1. Paleoindian Chronology and the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition ""; ""2. Paleoindian Environment and Subsistence Paradigm Case from New England to Virginia and Ohio ""; ""3. Reconstructing the Pleistocene Environment of the Greater Southeast ""; ""II. Reinvestigations of Classic Sites""; ""4. A Report on the 2008 Field Investigations at the Shoop Site (36DA20) ""; ""5. Spatial Organization at Bull Brook ""

""6. Fifty Years of Discovery at Plenge: Rethinking the Importance of New Jersey's Largest Paleoindia""""7. The Wells Creek Site: A Reinterpretation of Site Occupation ""; ""8. The Flint Run Complex: A Quarry-Related Paleoindian Complex in the Great Valley of Northern Virgin""; ""9. Revisiting Shawnee-Minisink ""; ""III. New Sites and Perspectives""; ""10. Paleoindian Toolstone Provisioning and Settlement Organization at the Higgins Site (18AN489) ""; ""11. Topper Site, South Carolina: An Overview of the Clovis Lithic Assemblage from the Topper Hillside""

""12. Tennessee's Paleoindian Record: The Cumberland and Lower Tennessee River Watersheds """"13. Endscrapers, Use-Wear, and Early Paleoindians in Eastern North America ""; ""IV. Observations on the Early Paleoindian Settlement of Eastern North America ""; ""14. Is That All There Is? : The Weak Case for Pre-Clovis Occupation of Eastern North America ""; ""15. The Weight and Meaning of Eastern Paleoindian Research: A View from West of the Rockies ""; ""16 Paleoindian Archaeology in Eastern North America: Current Approaches and Future Directions ""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-60781-233-9

OCLC:

840258592