Native American landscapes of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. (Anthropological papers of the America… - SLUB Dresden

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Title: Native American landscapes of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 88)

Contributor: Thomas, David Hurst. [Author] ; Andrus, C. Fred T. [Author] ; Bishop, Gale A. [Author] ; Blair, Elliot, 1981- [Author] ; Blanton, Dennis B. [Author] ; Crowe, Douglas E. (Douglas Edward) [Author] ; DePratter, Chester B. [Author] ; Dukes, Joel. [Author] ; Francis, Peter, Jr. [Author] ; Guerrero, Debra. [Author] ; Hayes, Royce H. [Author] ; Kick, Maureen. [Author] ; Larsen, Clark Spencer. [Author] ; Licate, Camille. [Author] ; Linsley, David M. [Author] ; May, J. Alan. [Author] ; McNeil, Jessica. [Author] ; O'Brien, Deborah Mayer. [Author] ; Paulk, Greg. [Author] ; Pendleton, Lorann S. A. [Author] ; Reitz, Elizabeth Jean, 1946- [Author] ; Rollins, Harold B., 1939- [Author] ; Russo, Michael, 1953- [Author] ; Sanger, Matthew C., 1976- [Author] ; Saunders, Rebecca, 1955- [Author] ; Semon, Anna. [Author]

Published: American Museum of Natural History: AMNH scientific publications, 2008

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Language: English

Keywords: Guale Indians ; Land settlement patterns ; Saint Catherines Island ; Georgia

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Description: Issued March 3, 2008. 3 v. (xiii, 1136 p.) : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Contents: pt. 1. The theoretical framework -- pt. 2. The data -- pt. 3. Synthesis and implications. ; Four deceptively simple questions have guided our long-term research into the aboriginal lifeways of St. Catherines Island: 1. How and why did the human landscape (settlement patterns and land use) change through time? 2. To what extent were subsistence and settlement patterns shaped by human population increase, intensification, and competition for resources? 3. What factors can account for the emergence of social inequality in Georgia's Sea Islands? 4. Can systematically collected archaeological evidence resolve the conflicting ethno-historic interpretations of the aboriginal Georgia coast (the so-called 'Guale problem')? Over a span of four decades, the American Museum of Natural History has addressed these four fundamental questions using a broad array of field and analytical techniques. We conducted a 20 percent probabilistic transect survey of St. Catherines Island, walking and probing for buried sites across a series of 31 east-west transects, each 100 m wide. During this initial survey we located 122 archaeological sites, which we tested with more than 400 one-meter by one-meter units. Because the transect sampling was heavily biased toward sites with marine shell, we also conducted a systematic shovel testing program. We also augmented these systematic surveys with a direct shoreline reconnaissance (mostly following the late Holocene surfaces), recording roughly 84 additional shoreline sites on St. Catherines Island. By plotting the distribution of these known-age sites across the Holocene beach ridges, we have developed a detailed sequence documenting the progradation and erosion of beach ridge complexes adjacent to tidal estuaries and oceanward shorelines on the island. To evaluate the results of the 1000+ test explorations and excavations on St. Catherines Island, we have processed 251 radiocarbon determinations, including two dozen ...