Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Albert C. Goodyear is a research affiliate at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology and director of the Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey. Christopher R. Moore is a geoarchaeologist with the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program.

• List of Figures List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Albert C. Goodyear and Christopher R. Moore2. The Pre-Clovis Occupation of the Topper Site, Allendale County, South Carolina Albert C. Goodyear and Douglas A. Stain3. Capps: A Levallois-Like Flaked Stone Technology in North America H. Blaine Ensor4. The Vero Site (8IR009): Current Investigations Suggest Pleistocene Human Occupation C. Andrew Hemmings, J.M. Adovasio, F. J. Vento, and A. Vega5. Paleogeography and Sea-Level Positions on the SE US Continental Margin since the LGM: Implications to Potential Habitation Sites M. Scott Harris6. The Quarry Cluster Approach to Chert Provenance: A Review of the Method with Examples from Early Florida Sites Robert J. Austin, Sam B. Upchurch, James S. Dunbar, Richard W. Estabrook, Jon C. Endonino, and Adam Burke7. Paleoindians in the South Carolina Coastal Plain: Tracking Pleistocene-Holocene Transitions Ashley M. Smallwood, Albert C. Goodyear, Thomas A. Jennings, and Douglas A. Sain8. Brief Overview of the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact Datum Layer 12,800 Years Ago and its Archaeological Utility Malcolm A. LeCompte, Victor A. Adedeji, James P. Kennett, Ted E. Bunch, and Wendy S. Wolbach9. Potential Consequences of the YDB Cosmic Impact at 12.8 ka: Climate, Humans, and Megafauna James P. Kennett, Douglas J. Kennett, Malcolm A. LeCompte, and Allen West10. Regional Manifestations of Late Quarternary Climate Change and Archaeological Site Burial along the South Atlantic Coastal Plain Christopher R. Moore, Mark J. Brooks, I. Randolph Daniel Jr., Andrew H. Ivester, James K. Feathers, and Terry E. Barbour11. Multiple Scales of Interaction in the Early Side-Notched Horizons Kara Bridgman Sweeney12. Discerning Early Archaic Bolen Territories Using Geometric Morphometrics David K. Thulman13. Across the Coastal Plain from Savannah to Santee: Early Archaic Mobility and Raw Material Utilization in South Carolina Joseph E. Wilkinson14. Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Archaeology of the Southeastern Atlantic Scope David G. Anderson15. Migrations and the Early Human Ecology of the Southeastern Atlantic Scope: A Long View Joseph SchuldenreinReferences List of Contributors Index

"Focuses on some of the important questions surrounding early colonization and the spread of populations in the American South. If you are interested in the first ~7,000 years of North American prehistory, you need this book."—American Antiquity"A useful reference for ongoing scholarship into the earliest cultural periods in Southeastern USA."—Antiquity