Archaeological excavations at the Hall Shelter site in southeastern Kentucky yielded approximately 450,000 items of natural and cultural debris. Subsequent analysis of the recovered cultural items and recognition of numerous diagnostic lithic and ceramic artifacts indicate human occupation at the locus occurred since the Late Archaic. Also recovered from the main excavation units were 517 identifiable gastropod shell specimens representing twenty-five taxa. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of the gastropod assemblages indicate that minor environmental changes took place during the site's history. In addition, several major trends and shifts in human activity are inferred on the basis of gastropod responses to human occupation.

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