Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Abstract

This book is a collection of articles written by established researchers on the early prehistory of the Coastal Plain of the Southeastern U.S. The Coastal Plain is considered both geographically, as it extends from Virginia to Alabama, and chronologically, over potentially the last 50,000 years. Topics considered are the Pre-Clovis at Topper, Capps, and Vero Site; the potential for inundated early sites on the shelf; the mapping and petrography of Coastal Plain chert sources; the Paleoindians on the South Carolina Coastal Plain; the Younger Dryas and the Cosmic Impact Hypothesis; site burial and Coastal Plain sedimentary processes; the Early Archaic period with different scales of spatial analysis; the broader view of the Southeastern Atlantic Slope as it has been researched over the past forty years; and the long view of early human ecology and migrations from North America and the Old World.