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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808504603321

Titolo

From the Pleistocene to the Holocene : human organization and cultural transformations in prehistoric North America / / edited by C. Britt Bousman and Bradley J. Vierra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-58442-5

9786613896872

1-60344-778-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (822 p.)

Collana

Texas A&M University anthropology series ; ; no. 17

Altri autori (Persone)

BousmanC. Britt

VierraBradley J

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Antiquities, Prehistoric - North America

Human beings - Climatic factors - North America

Human ecology - North America

Hunting and gathering societies - North America

Indians of North America - Antiquities

Paleoecology - Holocene

Paleoecology - Pleistocene

Paleoecology - North America

Paleo-Indians - North America

Pleistocene-Holocene boundary

North America Antiquities Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Most chapters began as papers for a symposium on Paleoindian-Archaic transitions in North America, given at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Salt Lake City in 2005. Not all presenters submitted a chapter, so others were solicited to expand the geographic coverage of the volume."--Chapter 1.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chronology, environmental setting, and views of the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene cultural transitions in North America / C. Britt Bousman and Bradley J. Vierra -- Environmental change and archaeological transitions in early post-glacial Alaska / Michael R. Bever



-- The Paleoindian to Archaic transition in the Pacific Northwest: in situ development or ethnic replacement? / James C. Chatters, Steven Hackenberger, Anna M. Prentiss, and Jayne-Leigh Thomas -- The Paleo-Archaic transition in western California / Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and Richard T. Fitzgerald -- The emergence of the desert Archaic in the Great Basin / George T. Jones and Charlotte Beck -- Paleoindian and Archaic traditions in Sonora, Mexico / Guadalupe Sanchez and John Carpenter -- The Paleoindian to Archaic transition: the Northwestern Plains and Central Rocky Mountains / Mary Lou Larson -- Ancient foragers of the Northern Rio Grande Valley / Bradley J. Vierra, Margaret A. Jodry, M. Steven Shackley, and Michael J. Dilley -- The Protoarchaic in Central Texas and surrounding areas / C. Britt Bousman and Eric Oksanen -- The Ozark Highland Paleoarchaic / Marvin Kay -- The transition from Paleoindian to Archaic in the Middle Tennessee Valley / Boyce N. Driskell, Scott C. Meeks, and Sarah C. Sherwood -- Shades of gray redux: the Paleoindian/Early Archaic "transition" in the Northeast / Kurt W. Carr and J. M. Adovasio.

Sommario/riassunto

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental  changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that  affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social  relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to  Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural  shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event-which  manifested in ways and at times much more varied than often supposed-set  the stage for the unique developments of behavioral complexity that  distinguish later Native American prehisto