Prehistoric Pile Dwellers within an Emergent Ecosystem: An Archaeological Case of Hunters and Gatherers at the Mouth of the Savannah River during the Mid-Holocene |
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Authors: | Jr" target="_blank">Morgan R CrookJr |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, USA |
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Abstract: | Evidence of a pile-dwelling community and seral environmental conditions during the late Mid-Holocene (ca 4,000–3,000 years
b.p.) is explored through archaeological data and paleoecological information from the Bilbo Site at the mouth of the Savannah
River along the Georgia coast, U.S.A. It is argued that pile dwellings were a central feature of the cultural adaptive system,
allowing settlements to be located in wetlands that provided optimal access to the evolving food resources of multiple, dynamic
environments. It also is suggested that the adaptive strategy included residential stability and a more complex organizational
structure than that exhibited by modern hunter-gatherers living in marginal environments.
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Keywords: | Hunter-gatherers pile dwellings ecological succession sea-level changes coastal paleoecology Mid-Holocene Shell Mound Archaic |
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