scholarly journals Geochemical sourcing of fiber-tempered pottery and the organization of Late Archaic Stallings communities in the American Southeast

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 35-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zackary I. Gilmore ◽  
Kenneth E. Sassaman ◽  
Michael D. Glascock
Keyword(s):  
Late Archaic ◽  
American Southeast

EVIDENCE FOR SIGNIFICANT SUBTERRANEAN STORAGE AT TWO HUNTER-GATHERER SITES: THE PRESENCE OF A MAST-BASED ECONOMY IN THE LATE ARCHAIC COASTAL AMERICAN SOUTHEAST

2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Sanger
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Late Archaic ◽  
Time Period ◽  
American Southeast ◽  
Potential Factor ◽  
Shell Rings

Excavations at two Late Archaic shell rings on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, revealed evidence of significant amounts of subterranean storage. Based on botanical evidence, ethonographic analogies, and interpretations of other Late Archaic sites, hickory nuts and acorns are the most likely resource being stored, and quantifying the capacity found at each ring highlights the prevalence and importance of mast storage. These findings are important because large-scale storage has rarely been proposed for Late Archaic coastal peoples and, therefore, its impact as a potential factor for social changes enacted during this time period, including increasing sedentism, formalization of intragroup relations, and regionalization of cultural identities, has yet to be explored.

Stallings Island Revisited: New Evidence for Occupational History, Community Pattern, and Subsistence Technology

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 539-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Sassaman ◽  
Meggan E. Blessing ◽  
Asa R. Randall
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Late Archaic ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
American Southeast ◽  
Permanent Settlement ◽  
Shellfish Gathering ◽  
Few Data ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Lines Of Evidence

For nearly 150 years Stallings Island, Georgia has figured prominently in the conceptualization of Late Archaic culture in the American Southeast, most notably in its namesake pottery series, the oldest in North America, and more recently, in models of economic change among hunter-gatherer societies broadly classified as the Shell Mound Archaic. Recent fieldwork resulting in new radiocarbon assays from secure contexts pushes back the onset of intensive shellfish gathering at Stallings Island several centuries; enables recognition of a hiatus in occupation that coincides with the regional advent of pottery making; and places abandonment at ca. 3500 B.P. Analysis of collections and unpublished field records from a 1929 Peabody expedition suggests that the final phase of occupation involved the construction of a circular village and plaza complex with household storage and a formalized cemetery, as well as technological innovations to meet the demands of increased settlement permanence. Although there are too few data to assess the degree to which more permanent settlement led to population-resource imbalance, several lines of evidence suggest that economic changes were stimulated by ritual intensification.

Below-the-Watertable Archaeology at Lamoka Lake

1983 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Michael Gramly
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Middle Woodland ◽  
Late Archaic ◽  
York State ◽  
Animal Bones ◽  
Central New York ◽  
Lake Site

A trench excavated into the waterlogged fringe of the Lamoka Lake site in central New York state yielded cultural stratigraphic zones with abundant artifacts and food remains. A peaty layer resting upon Late Archaic beach or streamside deposits produced late Middle Woodland (Kipp Island phase) ceramics and stone implements. Discoveries of wood, fruit pits, and nuts in the same layer as well as rich congeries of animal bones indicate that the archaeological potential of the Lamoka Lake site is not exhausted.

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