Research Catalog

Title

The archaeology of human-environmental dynamics on the North American Atlantic coast / edited by Leslie Reeder-Myers, John A. Turck, and Torben C. Rick ; foreword by Victor D. Thompson.

Publication

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Reeder-Myers, Leslie A.
• Turck, John A.
• Rick, Torben C.
• Thompson, Victor D.

Description

xiii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

This edited volume brings together leading scholars focused on the Native American peoples who called the Atlantic coast home for thousands of years. Each chapter will address an individual region of the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from the Canadian Maritime Provinces to the Florida Keys.

Series Statement

Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology

Uniform Title

Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Atlantic States > Antiquities
• Indians of North America > Atlantic States > History
• Indians of North America > Atlantic Coast (North America) > Antiquities
• Indians of North America > Atlantic Coast (North America) > History
• Human ecology > Atlantic Coast (North America) > History
• Coastal archaeology > Atlantic Coast (North America)
• Coast changes > Atlantic Coast (North America) > History
• Environmental archaeology > Atlantic Coast (North America)
• Climatic changes > Atlantic Coast (North America)
• Human ecology
• Environmental archaeology
• Coastal archaeology
• Coast changes
• Climatic changes
• Antiquities
• Indians of North America
• Indians of North America > Antiquities
• Atlantic Coast (North America) > Antiquities
• North America > Atlantic Coast
• United States > Atlantic States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Conceptualizing the archaeology of North America's Atlantic seacoast and estuaries / Torben C. Rick, John A. Turck, and Leslie Reeder-Myers -- Sea ice, seals, and settlement : on climate and culture in Newfoundland and Labrador / Christopher B. Wolff and Donald H. Holly Jr. -- Coastal adaptations to the northern Gulf of Maine and southern Scotian Shelf / Matthew W. Betts, David W. Black, Brian Robinson, and Arthur Spiess -- Maritime cultural landscapes in the New York Bight / Daria Merwin -- Sea level rise and sustainability in Chesapeake Bay coastal archaeology / Leslie Reeder-Myers and Torben C. Rick -- Coastal adaptations in North and South Carolina / Carolyn D. Dillian -- Human-environmental dynamics of the Georgia coast / John A. Turck and Victor D. Thompson -- Gathering for nine millennia along the Atlantic coast and St. Johns River of northeast Florida / Asa R. Randall -- Island chain coastlines : a history of human adaptation in the Florida Keys / Traci Ardren, Scott Fitzpatrick, and Victor D. Thompson -- Making the Atlantic coast a smaller place and a stepping stone to larger issues / Thomas J. Pluckhahn.

Call Number

JFE 20-2478

ISBN

• 9780813066134
• 0813066131

LCCN

2019002012

OCLC

1119985858

Title

The archaeology of human-environmental dynamics on the North American Atlantic coast / edited by Leslie Reeder-Myers, John A. Turck, and Torben C. Rick ; foreword by Victor D. Thompson.

Publisher

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology

Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Reeder-Myers, Leslie A., editor.

Turck, John A., editor.

Rick, Torben C., editor.

Thompson, Victor D., writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2478