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| Native American landscapes of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Part 2 ; Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 88, pt. 2 |
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| Title: | Native American landscapes of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Part 2 ; Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 88, pt. 2 |
| Authors: | Thomas, David Hurst. Andrus, C. Fred T. Bishop, Gale A. Blair, Elliot, archaeologist. Blanton, Dennis B. Crowe, Douglas E. (Douglas Edward) DePratter, Chester B. Dukes, Joel. Francis, Peter, Jr. Guerrero, Debra. Hayes, Royce H. Kick, Maureen. Larsen, Clark Spencer. Licate, Camille. Linsley, David M. May, J. Alan. McNeil, Jessica. O'Brien, Deborah Mayer. Paulk, Greg. Pendleton, Lorann S. A. Reitz, Elizabeth Jean, 1946- Rollins, Harold B., 1939- Russo, Michael, 1953- Sanger, Matthew, archaeologist. Saunders, Rebecca, 1955- Semon, Anna. |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | New York, NY : American Museum of Natural History |
| Series/Report no.: | Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 88 |
| Abstract: | "Four deceptively simple questions have guided our long-term research into the aboriginal lifeways of St. Catherines Island: 1. How and why did the human landscape (settlement patterns and land use) change through time? 2. To what extent were subsistence and settlement patterns shaped by human population increase, intensification, and competition for resources? 3. What factors can account for the emergence of social inequality in Georgia's Sea Islands? 4. Can systematically collected archaeological evidence resolve the conflicting ethno-historic interpretations of the aboriginal Georgia coast (the so-called 'Guale problem')? Over a span of four decades, the American Museum of Natural History has addressed these four fundamental questions using a broad array of field and analytical techniques. We conducted a 20 percent probabilistic transect survey of St. Catherines Island, walking and probing for buried sites across a series of 31 east-west transects, each 100 m wide. During this initi... |
| Description: | 3 v. (xiii, 1136 p.) : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references. pt. 1. The theoretical framework -- pt. 2. The data -- pt. 3. Synthesis and implications. Electronic version available in portable document format (PDF). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5900 |
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