By David G. Anderson
The southeastern usa has one of many richest documents of early human cost of any sector of North the US. This publication offers the 1st state-by-state precis of Paleoindian and Early Archaic learn from the zone, including an appraisal of types constructed to interpret the knowledge. It summarizes what we all know of the peoples who lived within the Southeast greater than 8,000 years ago—when significant ice sheets coated the northern a part of the continent, and such mammals as elephants, saber-toothed tigers, and flooring sloths roamed the panorama. widely illustrated, this benchmark selection of essays at the kingdom of Paleoindian and Early Archaic learn within the Southeast will advisor destiny experiences almost about the region's first population for years to come.
Divided in 3 components, the amount includes:
Part I: Modeling Paleoindian and Early Archaic Lifeways within the Southeast
Environmental and Chronological concerns, David G. Anderson, Lisa D. O'Steen, and Kenneth E. Sassaman
Modeling Paleoindian and Early Archaic payment within the Southeast: A old standpoint, David G. Anderson and Kenneth E. Sassaman
Models of Paleoindian and Early Archaic cost within the reduce Southeast, David G. Anderson
Early Archaic payment within the South Carolina Coastal simple, Kenneth E. Sassaman
uncooked fabric Availability and Early Archaic cost within the Southeast, I. Randolph Daniel Jr.
Paleoindian and Early Archaic payment alongside the Oconee Drainage, Lisa D. O'Steen
Haw River Revisited: Implications for Modeling Terminal past due Glacial and Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer payment platforms within the Southeast, John S. Cable
Early Archiac cost and expertise: classes from Tellico, Larry R. Kimball
Paleoindians close to the sting: A Virginia viewpoint, Michael F. Johnson
Part II: The local Record
The want for a neighborhood point of view, Kenneth E. Sassaman and David G. Anderson
Paleoindian and Early Archaic learn within the South Carolina sector, David G. Anderson and Kenneth E. Sassaman
The Taylor website: An Early profession in relevant South Carolina, James L. Michie
Paleoindian and Early Archaic learn in Tennessee, John B. Boster and Mark R. Norton
A Synopsis of Paleoindian and Early Archaic examine in Alabama, Eugene M. Futato
Statified overdue Pleistocene and Early Holocene Deposits at airborne dirt and dust Cave, Northwestern Alabama, Boyce N. Driskell
Bone and Ivory instruments from Submerged Paleoindian websites in Florida, James S. Dunbar and S. David Webb
Paleoindian and Early Archaic info from Mississippi, Samuel O. McGahey
Early and center Paleoindian websites within the Northeastern Arkansas sector, J. Christopher Gillam
Part III: Commentary
A Framework for the Paleoindian/Early Archaic Transition, Joel Gunn
Modeling groups and different Thankless projects, Dena F. Dincauze
An Arkansas View, Dan F. Morse
reviews, Henry T. Wright