From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Subtitle: human organization and cultural transformations in prehistoric North America
By: edited by C. Britt Bousman and Bradley J. Vierra
Contributors: Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Texas A&M University anthropology series -- no. 17
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781603447607; 9781603447782
Subjects: Indians of North America; Effect of climate on; Paleo-Indians; Antiquities; Paleoecology; Pleistocene-Holocene boundary; Congresses; Prehistoric Antiquities; Hunting and gathering societies; Human beings; Human ecology
Notes: "Most chapters began as papers for a symposium on Paleoindian-Archaic transitions in North America, given at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Salt Lake City in 2005. Not all presenters submitted a chapter, so others were solicited to expand the geographic coverage of the volume."--Chapter 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chronology, environmental setting, and views of the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene cultural transitions in North America / C. Britt Bousman and Bradley J. Vierra; title: Environmental change and archaeological transitions in early post-glacial Alaska / Michael R. Bever; title: The Paleoindian to Archaic transition in the Pacific Northwest: in situ development or ethnic replacement? / James C. Chatters, Steven Hackenberger, Anna M. Prentiss, and Jayne-Leigh Thomas; title: The Paleo-Archaic transition in western California / Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and Richard T. Fitzgerald; title: The emergence of the desert Archaic in the Great Basin / George T. Jones and Charlotte Beck; title: Paleoindian and Archaic traditions in Sonora, Mexico / Guadalupe Sanchez and John Carpenter; title: The Paleoindian to Archaic transition: the Northwestern Plains and Central Rocky Mountains / Mary Lou Larson; title: Ancient foragers of the Northern Rio Grande Valley / Bradley J. Vierra, Margaret A. Jodry, M. Steven Shackley, and Michael J. Dilley; title: The Protoarchaic in Central Texas and surrounding areas / C. Britt Bousman and Eric Oksanen; title: The Ozark Highland Paleoarchaic / Marvin Kay; title: The transition from Paleoindian to Archaic in the Middle Tennessee Valley / Boyce N. Driskell, Scott C. Meeks, and Sarah C. Sherwood; title: Shades of gray redux: the Paleoindian/Early Archaic "transition" in the Northeast / Kurt W. Carr and J. M. Adovasio.