Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain
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Albert Goodyear
anthropology
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archaeological sites
archaeology
Atlantic Ocean
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Chesapeake Bay
Christopher Moore
classic Clovis culture
culture change
Early Archaic
Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain
environmental changes
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glacial sea level rise
Gulf of Mexico
Indians of North America
Prehistoric
Southern States
Tampa Bay
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- ISBN 9781683402480
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2021
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Bringing together major archaeological research projects from Virginia to Alabama, this volume explores the rich prehistory of the Southeastern Coastal Plain. Contributors consider how the region's warm weather, abundant water, and geography have long been optimal for the habitation of people beginning 50,000 years ago. They highlight demographic changes and cultural connections across this wide span of time and space.New data are provided here for many sites, including evidence for human settlement before the Clovis period at the famous Topper site in South Carolina. Contributors track the progression of sea level rise that gradually submerged shorelines and landscapes, and they discuss the possibility of a comet collision that triggered the Younger Dryas cold reversion and contributed to the extinction of Pleistocene megafauna like mastodons and mammoths. Essays also examine the various stone materials used by prehistoric foragers, the location of chert quarries, and the details stone tools reveal about social interaction and mobility.This volume synthesizes more than fifty years of research and addresses many of today's controversial questions in the archaeology of the early Southeast, such as the sudden demise of the Clovis technoculture and the recognition of the mysterious "Middle Paleoindian" period.Contributors: Robert J. Austin | Mark J. Brooks | Christopher R. Moore | I Randolph Daniel | Joseph E. Wilkinson | Joseph Schuldenrein | Allen West | David K. Thulman | James K. Feathers | Terry E. Barbour II | Douglas Sain | Thomas A. Jennings | Albert C. Goodyear | Andrew H. Ivester | Malcolm A. LeCompte | Adam M. Burke | James S. Dunbar | Jon Endonino | Richard Estabrook | H. Blaine Ensor | Victor Adedeji | Douglas J. Kennett | Ashley M. Smallwood | Kara Bridgman Sweeney | Sam Upchurch | James P. Kennett | Wendy S. Wolbach | M. Scott Harris | Ted Bunch | David G. Anderson | C. Andrew Hemmings | James. M. Adovasio
Albert C. Goodyear is a research affiliate at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology and director of the Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey.
Christopher R. Moore is a geoarchaeologist with the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program.
Christopher R. Moore is a geoarchaeologist with the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program.
