Early human life on the southeastern coastal plain / edited by Albert C. Goodyear and Christopher R. Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodyear, Albert C., editor.

Moore, Christopher R., editor.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series

Ripley P. Bullen series: Florida Museum of Natural History.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Southern States.

Archaeology.

Prehistoric peoples--Southern States.

Prehistoric peoples.

Indians of North America--Southern States.

Indians of North America.

Southern States.

Southern States--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xvi, 412 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018]

Summary:

This book is a compilation of several major archaeological research projects ranging from Pre-Clovis through Early Archaic manifestations covering the Coastal Plain of the Southeastern United States.

Contents:

Introduction / Albert C. Goodyear and Christopher R. Moore

The pre-Clovis occupation of the Topper Site, Allendale County, South Carolina / Albert C. Goodyear and Douglas A. Stain

Capps: a Levallois-like flaked stone technology in North America / H. Blaine Ensor

The Vero Site (8IR009): current investigations suggest pleistocene human occupation / C. Andrew Hemmings, J.M. Adovasio, F.J. Vento, and A. Vega

Paleogeography and sea-level positions on the SE US continental margin since the LGM: implications to potential habitation sites / M. Scott Harris

The quarry cluster approach to chert provenance: a review of the method with examples from early Florida sites / Robert J. Austin, Sam B. Upchurch, James S. Dunbar, Richard W. Estabrook, Jon C. Endonino, and Adam Burke

Paleoindians in the South Carolina coastal plain: tracking pleistocene-holocene transitions / Ashley M. Smallwood, Albert C. Goodyear, Thomas A. Jennings, and Douglas A. Sain

Brief overview of the Younger Dryas cosmic impact datum layer 12,800 years ago and its archaeological utility / Malcolm A. LeCompte, Victor A. Adedeji, James P. Kennett, Ted E. Bunch, and Wendy S. Wolbach

Potential consequences of the YDB cosmic impact at 12.8 ka:

Climate, humans, and megafauna / James P. Kennett, Douglas J. Kennett, Malcolm A. LeCompte, and Allen West

Regional manifestations of late quarternary climate change and archaeological site burial along the South Atlantic coastal plain / Christopher R. Moore, Mark J. Brooks, I. Randolph Daniel Jr., Andrew H. Ivester, James K. Feathers, and Terry E. Barbour

Multiple scales of interaction in the early side-notched horizons / Kara Bridgman Sweeney

Discerning early archaic Bolen territories using geometric morphometrics / David K. Thulman

Across the coastal plain from Savannah to Santee: early archaic mobility and raw material utilization in South Carolina / Joseph E. Wilkinson

Late pleistocene/early holocene archaeology of the southeastern Atlantic scope / David G. Anderson

Migrations and the early human ecology of the southeastern Atlantic scope: a long view / Joseph Schuldenrein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781683400349

1683400348

OCLC:

994287478