Terminal Pleistocene Depositional Patterns and their Hypothesized Impact on Human Populations in the Middle Atlantic Region, USA
Author(s): Joseph Gingerich; Daniel Wagner; Kurt Carr
Year: 2016
Summary
Depositional regimes determine the burial and preservation of archaeological sites. Before, during, and after the Younger Dryas interval, we see differences in depositional patterns throughout the Middle Atlantic Region of the United States. In this paper we explore both differences and similarities in alluvial and eolian deposition within the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and Ridge and Valley physiographic provinces of eastern North America. Using select case studies, we explore what role, if any, varying landscape stability played in the settlement or use of river valleys by human populations during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene.
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Terminal Pleistocene Depositional Patterns and their Hypothesized Impact on Human Populations in the Middle Atlantic Region, USA. Joseph Gingerich, Daniel Wagner, Kurt Carr. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403422)
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Keywords
General
Climate Change
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Paleoindian
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Settlement patterns
Geographic Keywords
North America - Mid-Atlantic
Spatial Coverage
min long: -84.067; min lat: 36.031 ; max long: -72.026; max lat: 43.325 ;