The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast

Contributors

Contributors David G. Anderson is an archaeologist with the Southeast Archeological Center of the National Park Service in Tallahassee, Florida. His technical interests include cultural resource management, modeling prehistoric population distributions , synthesizing extant archaeological research on locality to regional scales, and exploring the evolution of cultural complexity in Eastern North America. The author of numerous papers and monographs on prehistoric archaeology in various parts of NorthAmerica and the Caribbean, in 1990 he received the SoutheastemArchaeological Conference's C. B. Moore award for excellence by a young scholar and in 1991 the Society for American Archaeology's dissertation prize. His most recent book, based on his doctoral research at the University of Michigan , is The Savannah River Chiefdoms: Political Change in the Late Prehistoric Southeast (Alabama 1994). John B. Broster is the Middle Tennessee Regional Archaeologist for the Tennessee Division of Archaeology and is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. He has published numerous journal articles on the Paleoindian period and has a special interest in the development and spread of the Clovis Culture in the Americas. John S. Cable received his M.A. from Arizona State University in 1977 and is currently in the Ph.D. program at that institution. He is presently serving as a Senior Archaeologist for New South Associates, Inc. of Stone Mountain, Georgia . Mr. Cable has been involved with contract and research archaeology for eighteen years in both the Southeastern and Southwestern United States. His Southwestern experience focused on the study of the Hohokam, a long-lived irrigation -based agrarian society in southern Arizona. His work in the Southeast has included both prehistoric hunter-gatherer and agricultural societies of North and South Carolina and Georgia. His research interests include ceramic and lithic analysis, statistical applications, and settlement pattern reconstruction. I. Randolph Daniel, Jr. is an assistant professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994. His research interests include chipped stone technologies and the cultural adaptations of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene hunter-gatherers in the Southeast. He is a co-author of Harney Flats: A Florida Paleo-Indian Site (Baywood 1987). Currently , he is completing a book on the Hardaway site in North Carolina. Using previously unanalyzed data from Hardaway, the study addresses Early Archaic settlement in the Southeast. Dena E Dincauze is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research interests include the prehistory of northeastern North America, geoarchaeology, paleoecology, archaeological resource protection , and ethnohistory. She has published numerous articles on most of these 514 The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast topics. A special, long-standing interest is in the human experience of the Pleistocene /Holocene transition. Boyce N. Driskell is a Senior Staff Archaeologist at the Office of Archaeological Services, a unit of the University of Alabama Museums. His research interests include lithic technology and the early hunter-gatherers in the Mid-South. He has served as Director of the Dust Cave Research Project and instructor for the Dust Cave field school since their inception in 1989. He hopes to continue his present research at Dust Cave. James S. Dunbar is an Archaeological Field Supervisor for the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research. His research has focused on Paleoindian sites located within the Tertiary Karst river basins of north-central Florida. A number of journal articles and volume chapters regarding Florida's rich inundated and wetland Paleoindian sites has resulted from this effort. Primary research interests are in lithic and bone tool analysis, taphonomy, and stratigraphy. Daniel T. Elliott is a senior archaeologist with Garrow & Associates, Inc., a private consulting firm in Atlanta, Georgia, and is the secretary and a research associate for the LAMAR Institute, Inc., a nonprofit organization in Watkinsville, Georgia, created to foster archaeological research and public education about archaeology. He is also an archaeologist for the colonial German town of New Ebenezer in Effingham County, Georgia. He has written more than sixty archaeological research reports and has published numerous articles on southeastern archaeology in books and professional journals. Andrea K. L. Freeman is a graduate of Southern Methodist University (B.A., B.B.A.) and the University of Arizona (M.A.) and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of Arizona.She has a strong interest in the geoarchaeological context of Paleoindian finds east of the Mississippi River. She has also worked extensively in the American Southwest and is employed...