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Approaches to modeling regional settlement in the Archaic period Southeastessay 1996 • Anderson, David G.
Eastern Middle Archaic • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Anderson used site data from ten states in the southeast (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee) to examine regional settlement patterns during the Early, Middle, and Late...Models of Paleoindian and Early Archaic settlement in the lower southeastessay 1996 • Anderson, David G.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
Anderson believes the distribution of artifact concentrations in the eastern US occurs at 20-400 km intervals and may indicate the range of Early Paleoindian bands or macrobands. He describes his 'band-macroband model' of Early Archaic settlement and...Paleoindian interaction networks in the eastern woodlandsessay 1995 • Anderson, David G.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
Anderson discusses Clovis settlement patterns and early colonization of eastern North America. (He believes Early Paleoindians quickly settled in resource-rich areas that Anderson believes acted as staging areas from which people later spread out dur...Swift Creek in a regional perspectiveessay 1998 • Anderson, David G.
Eastern Middle Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Anderson presents a synopsis of Swift Creek culture mostly based on the other chapters from this book (document nos. 10-23). He also speculates about trade, exchange, information networks, settlement patterns, the distribution of major and minor cent...The Savannah River chiefdomsBook 1994 • Anderson, David G.
Mississippian • North America > Eastern Woodlands
The emergence and collapse of complex chiefdoms amid a regional landscape of simple chiefdoms, or what Anderson refers to as 'cycling', is caused by a wide range of factors which are explored in this monograph as they apply to a number of Savannah Ri...The Paleoindian colonization of eastern North Americaessay 1990 • Anderson, David G.
Early Paleo-Indian • New World > New World
The author uses data from major Paleo-Indian sites and from various fluted point recording projects, representing over 9,000 fluted and non-fluted points from Early, Middle, and Late Paleo-Indian periods, to examine where, how, and perhaps why initia...Paleoindian occupations in the southeastern United Statesessay 2004 • Anderson, David G.
Early Paleo-Indian • New World > New World
The author examines the locations and density of finds of Clovis and other fluted points in the lower 48 states. Evidence is presented for pre-Clovis groups, as are hypotheses about why point types changed....Early Archaic settlement in the southeastern United Statesarticle 1988 • Anderson, David G. & Hanson, Glen T.
Eastern Early Archaic • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Using data from surveys and excavations along the Savannah River watershed, Anderson and Hanson propose a model of Early Archaic settlement that is based on band-macroband interaction and mobility and on a mixed collector-forager strategy. They revie...Referencesessay 1996 • Anderson, David G. & Sassaman, Kenneth E.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
This document contains the references to documents nos. 2-25....Modeling Paleoindian and Early Archaic settlement in the southeastessay 1996 • Anderson, David G. & Sassaman, Kenneth E.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
The authors review earlier and current models of Paleoindian and Early Archaic settlement systems, land use patterns, and subsistence models. Three of the current models are discussed in other chapters from this book (eHRAF nos. 5, 8, and 9)....Paleoindian and Early Archaic research in the South Carolina areaessay 1996 • Anderson, David G. & Sassaman, Kenneth E.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
The authors describe the history of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research in South Carolina and the surrounding states. They point out some of the research and data collection biases. They briefly describe what archaeological remains have been found...Environmental and chronological considerationsessay 1996 • Anderson, David G. et al.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
The authors briefly discuss the environmental changes that occurred in the Southeast from the late Pleistocene to the early Holocene. They then summarize the overall chronology, the changes in the point types and the type of settlement patterns....References citedessay 1996 • Sassaman, Kenneth E. & Anderson, David G.
Eastern Middle Archaic • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This document is the bibliography for the 1996 volume [i]Archaeology of the mid-Holocene southeast[/i], edited by Kenneth E. Sassaman and David G. Anderson, containing the chapters in this collection by: Amick and Carr; Anderson; Blanton; Claassen; G...The need for a regional perspectiveessay 1996 • Sassaman, Kenneth E. & Anderson, David G.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
Sassaman and Anderson put the second set of papers in perspective. They also stress that as the earliest inhabitants did not have the same geo-political boundaries that we have today, we should conduct more regional studies that cut across state line...The Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the eastern United Statesessay 1996 • Morse, Dan F. et al.
Early Paleo-Indian • New World > New World
The authors discuss the paleoenvironment and the evidence for early settlement patterns and land use in the Eastern United States, from Little Salt Spring in Florida to Rodgers Shelter in Missouri (Late Paleo-Indian Dalton subtradition, taken to have...Paleoindian and Early Archaic research in Georgiaessay 1996 • Ledbetter, R. Jerald et al.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
Ledbetter et al. summarize the research and findings on Paleoindian through Early Archaic archaeological sites in Georgia. They discuss the changes in settlement patterns and lithic raw material use. The also discuss the Society for Georgia Archaeolo...