Testing for Evidence of Paleoindian Responses to the Younger Dryas in Georgia
Author(s): Ashley Smallwood; David Anderson; Thomas Jennings; Jerald Ledbetter
Year: 2015
Summary
For the Southeast, Meeks and Anderson (2012) propose Younger Dryas climate changes triggered a human population crash and/or substantial reorganization. We use the Georgia point record in the Paleoindian Database of the Americas to test for evidence of changes in landscape use through the Paleoindian period and consider these changes in the context of the Georgia paleoenvironmental record spanning the YD. Based on differences in point frequencies, distributions, stone types, and transport distances and directions, we conclude the Coastal Plain was a focus of early settlement, but by the end of the YD, Paleoindian settlement shifted into the Piedmont.
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Testing for Evidence of Paleoindian Responses to the Younger Dryas in Georgia. Ashley Smallwood, Thomas Jennings, David Anderson, Jerald Ledbetter. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 397883)
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Keywords
General
Paleoindian
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Southeast
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Younger Dryas
Geographic Keywords
North America - Southeast
Spatial Coverage
min long: -91.274; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -72.642; max lat: 36.386 ;