Procedings of the Second International Conference on Pedo-Archaeology

This multi-article volume was edited by Albert C. Goodyear, John E. Foss, and Kenneth E. Sassaman. Contents: Preface - Albert C. Goodyear and John E. Foss.....v Stratigraphy and Soil Chronosequence of the Brasstown Sites: A Model for Age Assessment of Alluvium in the Southern Blue Ridge, U.S.A. - David S. Leigh and John S. Cable.....1 Stratigraphy and Landscape Evolution: Implications for the Development of Cultural/Temporal Models in the Sand Hills of West-Central Louisiana - Charles Cantley and John E. Foss.....11 Gastrolith-Derived Stone Concentration in Deep Loess Soil of the Middle and Lower Mississippi River Valley, U.S.A. - Troy Cox.....27 Bioturbation to Bulldozers: The Myth of Undisturbed Sites and Its Implications in Cultural Resource Studies - Thomas J. Padgett.....35 Evidence for Subsurface Translocation of Ceramic Artifacts in a Vertisol in Eastern Crete, Greece - Michael W. Morris, John T. Ammons, and Photeinos Santas.....41 Variable Artifact Displacement and Replacement in a Holocene Eolian Feature - Joel Gunn and John E. Foss.....53 Prehistory and Holocene Floodplain Evolution Along the Inner Coastal Plain of Virginia: A Case Study from the Chickahominy Drainage - Joseph Schuldenrein and Dennis Blanton.....75 Soil Moisture Environments of Pre-Columbian Agricultural Terraces and Settlement, Rio Gavilan, Chihuahua, Mexico - Laurance C. Herold and Reuben F. Miller.....97 Soils of Caracol, Belize and Their Significance to Agriculture and Land Use - C. L. Coultas.....103 Pedo-Archaeology of the Mammoth Meadow Fan/Terrace Workshop Site in Southwestern Montana - Marvin T. Beatty, Mort D. Turner, Joanne C. Turner, and Robson Bonnichsen.....111 Considerations about Fragipans of the Eastern United States - Antonio V. Segovia.....121 Nahanada Site Pedology and the Archaeological Record Morphology - Kathleen E. Callum .....125 A Conceptual Methodology for Studying the Geoarchaeology of Fluvial Systems - Robin L Denson.....139 Application of the Newly Developed OCR Dating Procedure in Pedo-Archaeological Studies - Douglas S. Frink.....149https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/archanth_anthro_studies/1007/thumbnail.jp

Proceedings of the Third Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 9-11, 2008

341 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm. "Issued June 23, 2010." Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-341).The late Archaic of the American Southeast is typically described as a time of population growth, innovative developments in subsistence strategies, and increased social complexity. Although it is difficult to generalize, many early Woodland communities are characterized as relatively small scale, fairly mobile foragers organized into unranked or minimally ranked lineages and clans. Early Woodland groups also seem to be more socially isolated than their late Archaic predecessors, with a decline in regional exchange networks. The papers in this volume were presented at a conference entitled "What Happened in the Late Archaic?" which was co-sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and the St. Catherines Island Foundation and held on St. Catherines Island (Georgia), May 9-11, 2008. The Third Caldwell Conference invited the participants to engage the appropriate archaeological data from the American Southeast, specifically addressing the nature of change during the late Archaic-early Woodland transition. This volume consists of a dozen substantive papers, followed by three discussant contributions. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Trend, tradition, and transition at the end of the Archaic / Tristram R. Kidder -- "Nothing but the river's flood" : late Archaic diaspora or disengagement in the lower Mississippi Valley and southeastern North America / Jon L. Gibson -- The two rings of St. Catherines Island : some preliminary results from the St. Catherines and McQueen shell rings / Matthew C. Sanger and David Hurst Thomas -- Two late Archaic period shell rings, St. Simon's Island, Georgia / Rochelle A. Marrinan -- The Archaic above Choctawhatchee Bay : hydrodynamics, adaptation, and abandonment / Rebecca Saunders -- Prehistoric landscapes of complexity : Archaic and Woodland period shell works, shell rings, and tree islands of the Everglades, South Florida / Margo Schwadron -- Shell rings and other settlement features as indicators of cultural continuity between the late Archaic and Woodland periods of coastal Florida / Michael Russo -- "What happened to the southeastern Archaic?" : a perspective from St. Catherines Island / David Hurst Thomas -- Leaving the rings : shell ring abandonment and the end of the late Archaic / Matthew C. Sanger -- The rhythms of space-time and the making of monuments and places during the Archaic / Victor D. Thompson -- Getting from the late Archaic to early Woodland in three middle valleys (those being the Savannah, St. Johns, and Tennessee) / Kenneth E. Sassaman -- Late Archaic? : what the hell happened to the middle Archaic? / Joe Saunders -- Thoughts on the late Archaic-early Woodland transition on the Georgia and South Carolina coasts / Chester B. DePratter -- Mounds, middens, and rapid climate change during the Archaic-Woodland transition in the southeastern United States / William H. Marquardt -- The end of the southeastern Archaic : regional interaction and archaeological interpretation / David G. Anderson