The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures
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The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures

Pennsylvania, 4000 to 3000 BP

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The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures

Pennsylvania, 4000 to 3000 BP

About this book

Three thousand to four thousand years ago, the Native Americans of the mid-Atlantic region experienced a groundswell of cultural innovation. This remarkable era, known as the Transitional period, saw the advent of broad-bladed bifaces, cache blades, ceramics, steatite bowls, and sustained trade, among other ingenious and novel objects and behaviors. In The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures, eight expert contributors examine the Transitional period in Pennsylvania and posit potential explanations of the significant changes in social and cultural life at that time.

Building upon sixty years of accumulated data, corrected radiocarbon dating, and fresh research, scholars are reimagining the ancient environment in which native people lived. The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures will give readers new insights into a singular moment in the prehistory of the mid-Atlantic region and the daily lives of the people who lived there.

The contributors are Joseph R. Blondino, Kurt W. Carr, Patricia E. Miller, Roger Moeller, Paul A. Raber, R. Michael Stewart, Frank J. Vento, Robert D. Wall, and Heather A. Wholey.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Series Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. Introduction: Working with the Archaeological Record of 4500–2700 BP (R. Michael Stewart)
  7. Chapter 1: Evidence for Climate Variability During the Sub-Boreal/Transitional Archaic Period: Fact or Fiction? (Frank J. Vento)
  8. Chapter 2: The End of the Late Archaic Period in the Upper Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania: Lamoka and Its Variants (Robert D. Wall)
  9. Chapter 2: The Evolution of Cultural Adaptations During theTransitional Period in the Delaware and Susquehanna River Valleys in Pennsylvania (Kurt W. Carr)
  10. Chapter 4: The Transitional Archaic Period in the Susquehanna River Valley (Patricia E. Miller)
  11. Chapter 5: Rethinking the Transitional Archaic Period in the Upper Delaware Valley: A View from the “Orient” (Joseph R. Blondino)
  12. Chapter 6: Transitional Archaic Settlement Density in Eastern Pennsylvania (Heather A. Wholey)
  13. Chapter 7: The Transitional Dilemma in Pennsylvania Hearths, Fish, and Pottery (Roger Moeller)
  14. List of Contributors
  15. Index
  16. COVER Back