Pleistocene Human Settlement in the Southeastern United States: Current Evidence and Future Directions

Anderson, David G.; Smallwood, Ashley M.; Miller, D. E.

doi:10.1179/2055556314z.00000000012

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“…Compiling radiocarbon databases to examine human population dynamics using summed probabilities (Anderson et al 2011(Anderson et al , 2015Bamforth and Grund 2012;Kelly et al 2013;Gingerich 2013a, 2013b;Thomas 2008;Zahid et al 2016) and Bayesian modeling of cultural practices (e.g., shellfishing and monument construction [Randall 2013;Turck and Thompson 2016]) is increasingly common among North American archaeologists, generally, and southeasterners specifically. And, these regional databases are being incorporated into continent-wide ones that will allow archaeologists to ask a host of new question of these data.…”

Section: Radiocarbon Databasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contemplating the history and future of radiocarbon dating in the American Southeast

Thompson

Krus

2017

Southeastern Archaeology

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Contemplating the history and future of radiocarbon dating in the American Southeast

Thompson

Krus

2017

Southeastern Archaeology

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“…Deller and Ellis (1992a) and Ellis and Deller (1990) define a biface sequence for the EGL, while present a biface chronology for the NEM. Anderson et al (1996Anderson et al ( , 2015 present biface sequences for the Southeast that apply to the Ohio Valley and to the southern mid-Atlantic, while Adovasio (2002, 2012) summarize Paleoindian point forms for Pennsylvania in the northern mid-Atlantic. In the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic, researchers have recorded presumed Clovis biface forms that tend to be large, with parallel to near-parallel hafting margins, and single flute scars on each face that terminate below midpoint (see Figure 9).…”

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“…First, fluted point-affiliated occupations in the Northeast appear to roughly span the Younger Dryas (YD), while late Paleoindian sites, with unfluted point forms, mainly postdate that climatic event. Consequently, in contrast to some other regions (e.g., Anderson et al 2015), Paleoindian occupation of the Northeast (particularly in its northern glaciated sections) displays greater time depth and extends into the early Holocene (see Section 3). Second, a handful of archaeological sites in the Northeast provide tentative evidence for early occupations that precede Clovis, apparently with significant time gaps in between (see Section 4).…”

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Early Human Settlement of Northeastern North America

Lothrop

Lowery²,

Spiess

et al. 2016

PaleoAmerica

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This paper summarizes current evidence for earliest human occupation of northeastern North America during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. We review evolution of the region's landscapes and evidence of archaeological chronologies as context for understanding human settlement of the region. Current data support limited evidence for pre-Clovis occupation south of the Laurentide glacial margin, followed by a significant temporal gap prior to early Paleoindian settlement of the region. Despite differences in subregional data sets, mapping of site distributions and assemblage data do support the notion of variation in lifeways between Paleoindian populations occupying formerly glaciated parts of the Northeast in the late Pleistocene, versus contemporary groups in lands south of the Laurentide glacial margin. Through time, the greatest differences in Paleoindian land use and technology occur between the Younger Dryas and early Holocene.

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“…The presence or absence of clouds corresponds to the transparency of potential costs and payoffs of a decision. Agents are shown in red; potential sources of information from which agents can learn-other agents-are shown in blue Buchanan et al 2012;Smallwood 2012;Graf et al 2014;Sanchez et al 2014;Anderson et al 2015;Smallwood and Jennings 2015).…”

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“…Precise dating of the time span when Clovis points were made is anything but straightforward (e.g., Anderson et al 2015;Fiedel 2015), but common practice is to place the Clovis period between ca. 13,300 and 12,800 calBP in the West and between ca.…”

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Design Space and Cultural Transmission: Case Studies from Paleoindian Eastern North America

O’Brien

Boulanger

Buchanan

et al. 2015

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Tool design is a cultural trait-a term long used in anthropology as a unit of transmittable information that encodes particular behavioral characteristics of individuals or groups. After they are transmitted, cultural traits serve as units of replication in that they can be modified as part of a cultural repertoire through processes such as recombination, loss, or partial alteration. Artifacts and other components of the archaeological record serve as proxies for studying the transmission (and modification) of cultural traits, provided there is analytical clarity in defining and measuring whatever it is that is being transmitted. Our interest here is in tool design, and we illustrate how to create analytical units that allow us to map tool-design space and to begin to understand how that space was used at different points in time. We first introduce the concept of fitness landscape and impose a model of cultural learning over it, then turn to four methods that are useful for the analysis of design space: paradigmatic classification, phylogenetic analysis, distance graphs, and geometric morphometrics. Each method builds on the others in logical fashion, which allows creation of testable hypotheses concerning cultural transmission and the evolutionary processes that shape it, including invention (mutation), selection, and drift. For examples, we turn to several case studies J Archaeol Method Theory

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Pleistocene Human Settlement in the Southeastern United States: Current Evidence and Future Directions

Cited by 80 publications

References 161 publications

Contemplating the history and future of radiocarbon dating in the American Southeast

Contemplating the history and future of radiocarbon dating in the American Southeast

Early Human Settlement of Northeastern North America

Design Space and Cultural Transmission: Case Studies from Paleoindian Eastern North America

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