EVIDENCE FOR POST-ALLEGHANIAN N-S CONTRACTIONAL DEFORMATION IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Washington ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Eastern North America

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

Birds of Summer Solstice: World-Renewal Rituality on the Northern Gulf Coast of Florida

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Goodwin ◽  
Kenneth E. Sassaman ◽  
Meggan E. Blessing ◽  
David W. Steadman
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Fish Bone ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Summer Solstice ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Northern Gulf Coast

Prevalent as bird imagery is in the ritual traditions of eastern North America, the bony remains of birds are relatively sparse in archaeological deposits and when present are typically viewed as subsistence remains. A first-millennium ad civic-ceremonial centre on the northern Gulf Coast of Florida contains large pits with bird bones amid abundant fish bone and other taxa. The avian remains are dominated by elements of juvenile white ibises, birds that were taken from offshore rookeries at the time of summer solstices. The pits into which they were deposited were emplaced on a relict dune with solstice orientations. The timing and siting of solstice feasts at this particular centre invites discussion of world-renewal rituality and the significance of birds in not only the timing of these events but also possibly as agents of balance and rejuvenation.

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