essay
The Pleistocene-Holocene transition along the Pacific Coast of North America
humans at the end of the ice age : the archaeology of the pleistocene-holocene transition • New York • Published In 1996 • Pages: 277-301
By: Erlandson, Jon, Moss, Madonna.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The authors write about the transition from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene (ca 11,500-8000 BP) along the Pacific Coast, mainly from the Gulf of Alaska to San Diego, California. They discuss the paleoenvironment (especially sea levels), and a few sites from a database of over fifty. The intensity of the field work has been variable, so there is need for caution in interpreting the regional patterns. Also, there have been only a handful of isolated Clovis-like points found in California, Oregon, and Washington.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Diet
- Lithic industries
- Settlement patterns
- Weapons
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Paleo-Indian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- New World
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- New World
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 11,500-8000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pacific Coast of Canada and United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jon M. Erlandson and Madonna L. Moss
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-301)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96008914
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleo-Indians