In the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition

Joseph A. M. Gingerich is a Research Fellow in the Anthropology Department at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History. He received his PhD at the University of Wyoming.

• List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceIntroduction - Joseph A. M. GingerichPart I. Paleoindian Chronology and Paleoenvironmental Considerations1. Paleoindian Chronology and the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition - D. Shane Miller and Joseph A. M. Gingerich2. Paleoindian Environment and Subsistence Paradigm Case from New England to Virginia and Ohio. - Lucinda J. McWeeney3. Reconstructing the Pleistocene Environment of the Greater Southeast - Jessi J. HalliganPart II. Reinvestigations of Classic Sites4. A Report on the 2008 Field Investigations at the Shoop Site (36da20) - Kurt W. Carr, J. M. Adovasio, and Frank J. Vento5. Spatial Organization at Bull Brook - Brian S. Robinson and Jennifer C. Ort6. Fifty Years of Discovery at Plenge: Rethinking the Importance of New JerseyÍs Largest Paleoindian Site - Joseph A. M. Gingerich7. The Wells Creek Site: Results of a Reanalysis - Jesse Tune8. The Flint Run Complex: A Quarry Related Paleoindian Complex in the Great Valley of Northern Virginia - Kurt Carr, R. Michael Stewart, Dennis Stanford, and Michael Frank9. Revisiting Shawnee-Minisink - Joseph A. M. GingerichPart III. New Sites and Perspectives10. Paleoindian Toolstone Provisioning and Settlement Organization at the Higgins Site, 18AN489 - John C. Blong11. Topper Site, South Carolina: An Overview of the Clovis Lithic Assemblage from the Topper Hillside - Ashley Smallwood, D. Shane Miller, and Doug Sain12. TennesseeÍs Paleoindian Record: The Cumberland and Lower Tennessee River Watersheds - John R. Broster, Mark Norton, D. Shane Miller, Jesse W. Tune, Jon D. Baker13. Endscrapers, Use-wear and Early Paleoindians in Eastern North America - Thomas LoebelPart IV. Observations on the Early Paleoindian Settlement of Eastern North America14. The Search for Pre-Clovis in Eastern North America: A Critical Evaluation of the Evidence - Stuart Fiedel15. The Weight and Meaning of Eastern Paleoindian Research - Gary Haynes16. Paleoindian Archaeology in Eastern North America: Current Approaches and Future Directions - David G. AndersonList of ContributorsIndex

“Over 40 years in the making, this hefty volume provides an invaluable compilation of data and interpretations. Older classic sites as well as more recent discoveries are brought together in a useful contemporary synthesis which brings eastern Paleoindian research into mainstream North American studies.”—Albert C. Goodyear, Institute of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of South Carolina “This book would have very little competition from existing works and be much in demand amongst the large potential readership that works in this field.”—Christopher J. Ellis, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada“This book significantly advances our understanding of human populations in the eastern North America during the late Pleistocene. Collectively, the site studies and synthetic chapters provide new insights on eastern Paleoindian adaptations to the changing environments these people encountered at the end of Ice Age. Such research offers a timely human perspective from the past as we contemplate abrupt climate change today.”—Jonathan Lothrop, Curator of Archaeology, New York State Museum“Provides a valuable compendium of Paleoindian sites and data, including several previously unreported or under-reported sites. This volume will serve as an important reference and data source, not just for Paleoindian researchers, but also for archaeologists with broader interests in North American prehistory.”—Canadian Journal of Archaeology