Holocene Man in North America
The Ecological Setting and Climatic Background
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9217836 |
|---|---|
| Authors | WAYNE M WENDLAND (Dept. of GeographyUniveristy of Illinois Urbana, Illinois 61801, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 82 |
| Pages | 273-288 |
| Publication date | 1978-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Plains Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2052546.1978.11908903 |
| OpenAlex | W1608329751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 8 |
Patterns of human occupation and vegetation are delineated on maps of North America for one thousand year intervals through the Holocene. The raw data for this review include radiocarbon-dated pollen cores and archaeological information and treering records. Dynamic changes in the Laurentide Ice limits and major ecotones are observed through the middle Holocene, when both features reach essentially post-glacial stability. Significant changes in the vegetation boundaries continue to the present, but the scale of change is much diminished.Early Holocene occupation apparently expanded from Alaska south to California, then east, parallel to the southern boundary of the grasslands, to the Mississippi River and northeastward to the east coast. The absence of occpuation in late-Atlantic time is noted through much of the Great Plains and continued until about 4,000 BP. Within the next millennium, evidence of human occupation virtually covered the United States (except for the northwest) and much of coastal Canada.Environmental conditions and occupation over North America are reviewed within the framework of Holocene climatic episodes
Archaeology · Before Present · Ecotone · Geography · Glacial period · Habitat · Holocene · Holocene climatic optimum · Physical geography · Quaternary · Radiocarbon dating · Vegetation (pathology) · Ecology · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Oceanography · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Tree-ring climate responses
Clinal Variation of Some Mammals During the Holocene in Missouri
Late Holocene Alluvial Chronology and Climate Change in the Central Great Plains
Geoarchaeological Evidence for Prairie-Mound Formation in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, Southeastern Missouri
Fauna from the Hulme Site and Comments on Central Plains Tradition. Subsistence Variability
Long-Term Trends to Sedentism and the Emergence of Complexity in the American Midwest
A Middle Archaic Burial from East Central Kansas
Cultural responses to the altithermal
Chronostratigraphy of upper James river floodplain sediments
Ecological Edges and Archaeological Site Location in Saskatchewan, Canada
The Pipestem Burial
Spatial Analysis Of Archaeological Data At The John Martin Dam And Reservoir, Southeastern Colorado
On the Similarity of Odocoileus Hemionus And O. Virginianus Mandibles
A Folsom Hunting Overlook In Eastern Wyoming
Paleoindian Occupation of the Eastern Sand Hills
Culture, Environment, and Bison Populations on the Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Central Plains
A Late Archaic Skeleton From The Northeastern Colorado High Plains
Early Archaic Diet in the Tallgrass Prairie and Shortgrass Plains
Dietary Responses to Mid-Holocene Climatic Change
Early Woodland Black Sand Occupation in the Lower Missouri Valley, Western Missouri
Cultural Responses to The Altithermal or Inadequate Sampling
Age and Paleoclimatic Significance of Holocene Sand Dunes in Northeastern Colorado
Toward a Processual Understanding of the Initial Variant of the Middle Missouri Tradition
The Effects of the Hypsithermal on Prehistoric Foraging Efficiency in Missouri
Late Quaternary Vegetation Development in South-Central Illinois
Late Quaternary Biotic Records from Spring Deposits in Western Missouri11This paper is contribution No. 41, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
The Early Man Site at Warm Mineral Springs, Florida
A Reassessment of Northeastern Great Basin Prehistory
The Concept of an Altithermal Cultural Hiatus in Northern Plains Prehistory
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2007 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |