essay
Geoarchaeology and the Mid-Holocene landscape history of the greater Southeast
archaeology of the mid-holocene southeast • Gainesville • Published In 1996 • Pages: 3-27
By: Schuldenrein, Joseph.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Schuldenrein writes an overview of the geoarchaeology that has been done in the southeast of the United States. 'Early Holocene climates and hydrographic changes … account for a prehistoric record that is spotty and uneven. Evidence suggests that the majority of early archaeological sites … have either been severely eroded or remain deeply buried …. Conversely, by the end of the mid-Holocene largely modern environments had been established and … upper Late Archaic sites abound almost everywhere across North America. … A systematic understanding of the prehistoric geography of the mid-Holocene is the key to explaining broad diachronic changes in paleoecology.' (page 3).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Topography and geology
- Soil
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Late Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- 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.
- Geoarchaeologist
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Archaic; 8000 BP-3000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern North America; Canada and United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Joseph Schuldenrein
- For bibliographical references see document 8: [Kenneth E. Sassaman and David G. Anderson]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95045466
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities