Population in the Middle Atlantic Archaic: The Middle Atlantic Transect Approach

Summary

Middle Atlantic archaeology is unique due the tremendous ecological and cultural diversity present within a relatively small, compressed region. The ecological transect model has been widely applied in regional archaeological research for the past thirty years. It is essentially a landscape approach that traverses several major physiographic provinces to encompass the range a discrete and interconnected cultural activities across a broad region. This work employs the transect model to explore how factors such as settlement preference, mobility, social organization, resources, and subsistence practices influence group size and population throughout the Archaic period. This appears to be a tale of population resilience through responsiveness to changing external and internal circumstances that has fostered the growth of cultural diversity across the region.

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• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 21804