essay
The Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the eastern United States
humans at the end of the ice age : the archaeology of the pleistocene-holocene transition • New York • Published In 1996 • Pages: 319-338
By: Morse, Dan F., Anderson, David G., Goodyear, Albert C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 developed directly out of Clovis) to Vail in Maine. They see little evidence for big game hunting and think archaeologists need to develop hypotheses that are based on data from the Eastern United States, which has more fluted points and fluted point sites than the West.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Fauna
- Flora
- Cultural participation
- Hunting and trapping
- Land use
- Settlement patterns
- Weapons
- 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
- 12,000-8000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Dan E. Morse, David G. Anderson, and Albert C. Goodyear
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-338)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96008914
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleo-Indians