<html>Weathering Change: <i>Responses to Climatic Change along the Black Warrior River</i></html>
Author(s): Anthony Boucher
Year: 2025
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Culture, Climate, and Connections: Eventful Histories of Human-Environment Relations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
During the Late-Mid Holocene the southeast was impacted by dramatic changes in climate causing what appears to be a large shift in past people’s interaction with the landscape seen through a regionwide restructuring of settlement patterns and the abandonment of significant places. Noting these conspicuous changes in the cultural landscape, this period has been given various monikers such as, The Millenium in Question or Bullen’s Transitional Phase. In western Alabama this span of time is known as the Gulf Formational Stage. The Creole Williams site, located on a relic natural levee along the fall line of the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa Alabama, has provided evidence of occupation spanning a period of time from the Late Archaic to the Late Woodland. Using this site as a case study this paper explores how local inhabitants responded and negotiated with climatic and cultural changes occurring throughout the southeast.
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Weathering Change: Responses to Climatic Change along the Black Warrior River. Anthony Boucher. Presented at The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2025 ( tDAR id: 509947)
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Abstract Id(s): 51154