The archaeology of human-environmental dynamics on the North American Atlantic coast / edited by Leslie Reeder-Myers, John A. Turck, and Torben C. Rick. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reeder-Myers, Leslie A., editor.

Turck, John A., editor.

Rick, Torben C., editor.

Series:

Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology.

Florida scholarship online.

Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology

Florida scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Atlantic States--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Atlantic States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages).

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2020.

Summary:

Using archaeology as a tool for understanding long-term ecological and climatic change, this volume synthesizes current knowledge about the ways Native Americans interacted with their environments along the Atlantic coast over the past 10,000 years. Leading scholars discuss how the region's indigenous peoples grappled with significant changes to shorelines and estuaries, from sea level rise to shifting plant and animal distributions to European settlement and urbanization.

Contents:

Conceptualizing the archaeology of North America's Atlantic seacoast and estuaries / Torben Rick, John A. Turck, and Leslie Reeder-Myers

Sea ice, seals, and settlement: on climate and culture in Newfoundland and Labrador / Christopher B. Wolff and Donald H. Holly, Jr

Coastal adaptations to the northern Gulf of Maine and Southern Scotian Shelf / Matthew W. Betts, David W. Black, Brian Robinson, and Arthur Spiess

Maritime cultural landscapes in the New York Bight / Daria Merwin

Sea level rise and sustainability in Chesapeake Bay coastal archaeology / Leslie Reeder-Myers and Torben Rick

Coastal adaptations in North and South Carolina / Carolyn D. Dillia

Human-environmental dynamics of the Georgia coast / John A. Turck and Victor D. Thompson

Gathering for nine millennia along the Atlantic coast and St. Johns River of Northeast Florida / Asa R. Randall

Island chain coastlines: a history of human adaptation in the Florida Keys / Traci Ardren, Scott Fitzpatrick, and Victor D. Thompson

Making the Atlantic coast a smaller place and a stepping stone to larger issues / Thomas J. Pluckhahn.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 14, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-5834-1