TY  - BOOK
A2  - American Museum of Natural History
ED  - Reitz, Elizabeth Jean
ED  - Quitmyer, Irvy R.
ED  - Thomas, David Hurst
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - Seasonality and human mobility along the Georgia Bight: proceedings of the Fifth Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 14 - 16, 2010 ; 30 tables
T3  - Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History 97
PB  - American Museum of Natural History
CY  - New York, NY
KW  - Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
KW  - Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States)
KW  - Georgia
KW  - Saint Catherines Island
KW  - Food supply
KW  - Seasonal variations
KW  - Coastal settlements
KW  - South Atlantic States
KW  - Migration, Internal
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Food
KW  - Fish remains (Archaeology)
KW  - Animal remains (Archaeology)
KW  - Plant remains (Archaeology)
KW  - Coastal archaeology
KW  - Ausgrabung
KW  - Saint Catherines Island (Ga.)
AB  - Some of the most enduring and fundamental questions in archaeology relate to site seasonality. During which seasons did people occupy coastal archaeological sites? Why is "seasonality" important to our understanding of human behavior? What does this knowledge tell us about life in dynamic estuarine systems? What methods and technologies are available to address key issues of seasonality? Archaeological seasonality is uniquely linked to settlement patterns, resource availability, environmental relationships, anthropogenesis, landscapes, and social complexity. Archaeologists working in coastal settings typically recover multiple biological proxies that are well suited to explicating questions of human seasonal behavior. The Fifth Caldwell Conference was convened to discuss and report on practiced methods for reading the seasonality record found in common biological proxies. These researchers spoke of how they are applying various methods grounded in the natural sciences to estimate seasonality with particular reference to the archaeology of St. Catherines Island and the Georgia Bight. These methods include stable isotope analysis, ¹⁴C dating, longitudinal studies of animals (molluscs and fishes), zooarchaeology, and archaeobotany. The research shows that all plant and animal remains found in a midden contain a record of human behavior. The authors of these 13 chapters agree that multiple indicators of site seasonality provide the most robust picture of the annual settlement cycle. These papers were initially presented at the Fifth Caldwell Conference, cosponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and the St. Catherines Island Foundation, held on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 14-16, 2010
SN  - 9780985201609
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/2246/6164
LA  - English
N1  - Elizabeth J. Reitz, Irvy R. Quitmyer, and David Hurst Thomas, editors and contributors. With contributions by C. Fred T. Andrus ...
ID  - 721147046
ER  -