Diachronic variation in insectivores from Cheek Bend Cave and environmental change in the Midsouth

Paleobiology ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter E. Klippel ◽  
Paul W. Parmalee
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Relative Frequency ◽  
Marked Decrease ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Faunal Assemblages ◽  
Holocene Climatic Optimum ◽  
Equable Climate ◽  
Frequency Changes ◽  
Cave Deposit

Diachronic variation in insectivore remains from a deeply stratified cave deposit in southeastern North America is described. The paleobotanical record for the region is congruent with variation in the soricid (shrew) and talpid (mole) faunal assemblages. Both faunal and floral records reflect considerable climatic change since the full Wisconsinan in this unglaciated portion of eastern North America. Variations in the insectivore assemblages indicate the presence of a more equable climate during the late Pleistocene. Continental climates ushered in at the end of the Pleistocene resulted in a marked decrease in insectivore diversity. Relative frequency changes in taxa throughout the Holocene reflect the mid-Holocene Climatic Optimum.

Variation in the Early Paleoindian Economies of Late Pleistocene Eastern North America

1998 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth B. Tankersley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North America ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
New York State ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
York State ◽  
Significant Patterns

The nature of Early Paleoindian economies in late Pleistocene eastern North America has been extensively debated by archaeologists. To better understand paleoeconomies we need to examine intraregional and interregional diversity in the production, consumption, distribution, and exchange of materials that sustained or reproduced early Paleoindian livelihoods. Coarse-grained comparisons drawn on the composition of flaked-stone tool assemblages from early Paleoindian sites in the Northeast (western New York State) and the western Midwest (the confluence area of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers) show varying degrees of homogeneity and heterogeneity in the use of tool stone. Statistically significant patterns from stone procurement and tool manufacturing sites, base camps, and food procurement and processing sites are presented in support of a pancontinental model of flexible economies during a period of rapid and dramatic environmental change.

The Identification and Study of Indian Shell Middens in Eastern North America: 1643–1861

1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L. Christenson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
North America ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Shell Midden ◽  
Shell Middens ◽  
Work Done

Although the interest in shell middens in North America is often traced to reports of the discoveries in Danish kjoekkenmoeddings in the mid-nineteenth century, extensive shell midden studies were already occurring on the East Coast by that time. This article reviews selected examples of this early work done by geologists and naturalists, which served as a foundation for shell midden studies by archaeologists after the Civil War.

HAVE WE SEEN THE LARGEST EARTHQUAKES IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James S. Neely ◽  
◽  
Seth Stein ◽  
Miguel Merino ◽  
John Adams
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Eastern North America
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