Cultural Responses To The Altithermal Or Inadequate Sampling Reconsidered

Sheehan, Michael S.

doi:10.1080/2052546.1996.11931816

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“…He finds that while the peoples of the southern high plains were undoubtedly affected by harsh climatic conditions, the data from the central and northern plains are more equivocal. There, the lack of sites may have more to do with geomorphic processes that have removed or deeply buried the material record from this period, a factor that I discuss below (see Artz 1996;Sheehan 1995Sheehan , 1996 for discussion about whether a relative lack of sites in the northern plains is a cultural response to climate change or a result of geological processes).…”

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Everything Old Is New Again: Recent Approaches to Research on the Archaic Period in the Western United States

McBrinn

2010

J Archaeol Res

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There are regional differences in how archaeologists conduct their research on the Archaic period. The rich array of techniques and approaches used to examine this period in the West include human behavioral ecology and other evolutionary perspectives, technological style and aspects of practice theory, neuropsychological theory, and more. Recent research in the Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, Columbia-Fraser Plateau, and coastal California is surveyed to highlight commonalities and differences in the questions asked of the archaeological data and in the techniques that are used.

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Everything Old Is New Again: Recent Approaches to Research on the Archaic Period in the Western United States

McBrinn

2010

J Archaeol Res

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“…Archaeological work in the Northern Plains region has located few cultural sites dating from approximately 7500 to 5000 years ago. Many view this paucity of sites as the result of the mass emigration of Plains inhabitants to peripheral regions due to a dramatic change in environmental conditions (Hurt, 1966;Forbis, 1992;Mulloy, 1958;Sheehan, 1995Sheehan, , 1996Wedel, 1963). This dramatic change is attributed to a middle Holocene drought referred to as the climatic-optimum, the Altithermal (Antevs, 1955), or the Hypsithermal (Deevey & Flint, 1957).…”

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Reconstructing landscape and vegetation through multiple proxy indicators: A geoarchaeological examination of the St. Louis site, Saskatchewan, Canada

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The St. Louis site, located in the Plains–Parkland transition zone along the South Saskatchewan River, in Saskatchewan, Canada, is a multiple‐component site consisting of stratified floodplain alluvium with multiple, weakly developed soils. Human occupation at the site spans the Late Paleoindian to Middle Precontact periods (10,000–5,000 14C yr B.P.), a time poorly represented archaeologically on the Northern Plains. The dearth of early–middle Holocene‐age archaeological sites is often attributed to reduced inhabitability of the Northern Plains during the Hypsithermal, a period of maximum aridity and limited water availability. Stable isotope and phytolith data from the site indicate increased temperatures during the Hypsithermal and an expansion of Northern Plains grasslands into north‐central Saskatchewan. Although characterized by increased xeric conditions, human occupation at the St. Louis site, as well as the predominance of C3 grasses, attests to the habitability of Northern Plains river systems during this time period. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Subsistence, Sex, and Cultural Transmission in Folsom Culture

MacDonald

1998

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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Cultural Responses To The Altithermal Or Inadequate Sampling Reconsidered

Cited by 4 publications

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Everything Old Is New Again: Recent Approaches to Research on the Archaic Period in the Western United States

Everything Old Is New Again: Recent Approaches to Research on the Archaic Period in the Western United States

Reconstructing landscape and vegetation through multiple proxy indicators: A geoarchaeological examination of the St. Louis site, Saskatchewan, Canada

Subsistence, Sex, and Cultural Transmission in Folsom Culture

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