Immigration and Transformation: Local Community Response to the Abandonment of a Neighboring Region
Author(s): Brandon Ritchison
Year: 2018
Summary
Following the abandonment of the Middle Savannah River Valley at the end of the 14th century, communities on the neighboring Georgia Coast adopted a new settlement system. At the scale of the region, this appears as a dispersal of settlement and an increase in size of the largest population centers that had previously existed. This paper presents the results of the first systematic intra-community survey of a large site on the Georgia Coast. Results show how residents of the site spatially reorganized their community following the arrival of Savannah River immigrants and how this reflects changed socio-political organization.
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Immigration and Transformation: Local Community Response to the Abandonment of a Neighboring Region. Brandon Ritchison. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 443233)
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Keywords
General
Mississippian
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Settlement patterns
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Survey
Geographic Keywords
North America: Southeast United States
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.735; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -73.389; max lat: 39.572 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22739