Environmental Potential and the Postglacial Readaptation in Eastern North America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2564110 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James E Fitting (University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 441-445 |
| Publication date | 1968-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/278595 |
| OpenAlex | W2321907785 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 11 |
In definitions of the postglacial readaptation in eastern North America, attempts have been made to apply a single standard to the entire area. Such definitions are inadequate since a number of environmental zones existed in the region during late glacial and early postglacial times. These consisted of a periglacial zone with a fairly high carrying capacity supporting a cold-climate hunting adaptation; a zone of closed boreal forest with a relatively low carrying capacity; and a region of broadleaf and southern forests with a relatively high carrying capacity for a mixed gathering-and-hunting base. In the southeast there is a gradual transition from formally defined Paleo-Indian to Archaic culture, although both groups, if separation is possible, had potentially the same subsistence base. In the northeast there is a low population density hiatus between two periods of higher population density
Agriculture · Archaeology · Boreal · Carrying capacity · Geography · Glacial period · Physical geography · Population · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Ecology · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
A Technological Analysis of the Early Archaic
Amerinds and the Environment
An Optimum Diet Model, Coastal Variability, and Hunter–Gatherer Behavior
Facing the Forest
Shades of Gray
Long-Term Continuity in the Archaeological Record from the Coast of New York and Southern New England, USA
Earliest Man in the Southwestern Lake Erie Basin
Landlocked” Salmon and Early Holocene Lacustrine Adaptation in Southwestern Maine
Early and Middle Archaic Site Distribution in Western Maine
Archaeological Contributions to Climate Change Research
Environment and Archaeology.
Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization
The archaeology of New York State
Studies in Anthropology
Cultural and Natural Areas before Kroeber
Prehistoric Man in the New World
Aboriginal Relationships between Culture and Plant Life in the Upper Great Lakes Region
The Postglacial 'Readaptation' as Viewed from Mesoamerica
The Paleo-Indian Tradition in Eastern North America
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2024 (45) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |