Post-glacial environmental change and hunting-gathering societies of the southern Prairie Peninsula

McMillan, R. Bruce; Klippel, Walter E.

doi:10.1016/0305-4403(81)90001-7

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“…On the basis of available faunal and floral evidence, the diet of Dalton groups probably consisted of modern species (McMillan 1972;McMillan and Klippel 1981). Good faunal preservation occurred in the Dalton levels at Rodgers Shelter.…”

Section: Dalton Chronology and The Study Of Post-pleistocene Adaptationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Chronological Position of the Dalton Horizon in the Southeastern United States

Goodyear¹

1982

Am. antiq.

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The chronological placement of the Dalton horizon in the southeastern United States has traditionally been between 10,000 and 8,000 B.P. (8000–6000 B.C.). A review of previous dating approaches questions the basis for that assignment and casts serious doubts about the validity of alleged associations between Dalton remains and C-14 dates in caves and shelters. The significance of two Dalton-associated C-14 dates from the alluvial terrace of the Rodgers Shelter site is discussed in regard to their age and contexts. Excavations of Dalton open sites during the 1970s revealed pure Dalton assemblages with no side-notched and corner-notched points present. Radiocarbon dates spanning the period from 9,500 to 9,000 B.P. for side-notched and corner-notched points indicate that the Dalton point had ceased to be made by that time. It is argued that the interval from 10,500 to 9,900 B.P. (8500–7900 B.C.) is the correct temporal position of the Dalton horizon. The importance of correctly estimating the age and duration of the Dalton adaptation is emphasized, particularly for relating technological and settlement strategies to the paleoenvironmental changes of the early Holocene.

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Section: Dalton Chronology and The Study Of Post-pleistocene Adaptationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Chronological Position of the Dalton Horizon in the Southeastern United States

Goodyear¹

1982

Am. antiq.

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“…Kutzbach, 1987). These combined factors led to pronounced slope erosion in some areas (e.g., Gunn,1997: p.145;King and King,1996: p. 80;Knox,1984;McMillan and Klippel, 1981;Saucier, 1994: p. 43;Schuldenrein, 1996: p. 3;Styles et al, 1983). One argument arising from this scenario involves whether gravel beds in rivers would have been silted over, reducing lithic raw material availability (e.g., Bense, 1987a;McGahey, 1999: pp.…”

Section: The Vaughn Mound and Middle Holocene Climatementioning

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A comparison of multiple proxy data sets for paleoenvironmental conditions as derived from freshwater bivalve (Unionid) shell

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Seltzer

2008

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…That is, there was a shift in prey availability related to habitat improvement through time. This explanation has been alluded to in press for several decades (McMillan & Klippel 1981;Purdue 1989;Purdue & Styles 1987;Wolverton 2005 (Geist 1987(Geist , 1998(Geist , 1999. Paedomorphy refers to phenotypes that require less growth of highly developed adult body forms, such as extensive horns and antlers, large body size, highly cursorial adaptations, as well as developed social behaviour in favour of reproductive maintenance and generalist adaptations.…”

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“…The mid-Holocene Altithermal/Hypsithermal episode along the margin between the Great Plains and the eastern woodlands in North America is associated temporally with changes in human foraging. In terms of hunting, there is a shift in focus from broader diets, focusing on a variety of small, medium, and large vertebrate prey during the mid-Holocene, to more specialised diets focusing primarily on white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), the remains of which dominate late Holocene faunal assemblages from several stratified sites in Missouri and Illinois, including Graham Cave, Rodgers Shelter, Arnold Research Cave, Pigeon Roost, and Koster (Bozell & Falk 1981;McMillan & Klippel 1981;Neusius 1982;Parmalee et al 1976;Wolverton 2005).…”

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White-tailed deer harvest pressure & within-bone nutrient exploitation during the mid- to late Holocene in southeast Texas

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Human population size and density increased in many areas of eastern North America after the mid-Holocene. As predators, human foragers relied heavily on ungulate prey for food in many areas of the world during prehistory. In southeast Texas, changes in foraging adaptations relate to broader subsistence and population trends. Analysis of a large, well-preserved archaeological faunal assemblage that spans much of the second half of the Holocene from the Eagle's Ridge site (41CH252) indicates that harvest pressure and carcass exploitation of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) intensified through time following predictions framed under two theoretical models.The first model summarises effects of changes in harvest pressure and/or habitat productivity on prey population age structure and body size. Under harvest pressure age structures should become juvenile dominated expressing relatively steep survivorship, and ontogenetic growth rate of prey should increase. Habitat productivity affects ontogenetic growth rate but not proportional age structure in a prey population. The second model uses proxy measures of fragmentation to study exploitation of within-bone nutrients from white-tailed deer bones. Extent of fragmentation increases as marrow exploitation increases and intensity of fragmentation increases as grease exploitation intensifies. At Eagle's Ridge multiple lines of evidence related to the two models indicate that as human population density increased through time white-tailed deer were harvested at a higher rate.

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Post-glacial environmental change and hunting-gathering societies of the southern Prairie Peninsula

Cited by 33 publications

References 29 publications

The Chronological Position of the Dalton Horizon in the Southeastern United States

The Chronological Position of the Dalton Horizon in the Southeastern United States

A comparison of multiple proxy data sets for paleoenvironmental conditions as derived from freshwater bivalve (Unionid) shell

White-tailed deer harvest pressure & within-bone nutrient exploitation during the mid- to late Holocene in southeast Texas

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