Climate Change and the Archaic to Woodland Transition (3000–2500 Cal B.P.) in the Mississippi River Basin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7601845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T R Kidder (0000-0001-6006-8953, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 195-231 |
| Publication date | 2006-04-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/40035903 |
| OpenAlex | W2313824782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 126 |
Archaeologists frequently assume the cultural transition from Archaic to Woodland (ca. 3000–2500 cal B.P.) in the Mississippi River basin is a gradual process. In the lower Mississippi Valley, however, there is an abrupt gap in the archaeological sequence at this time and pronounced differences between Late Archaic and Early Woodland archaeological remains. Elsewhere in the basin, this transition is marked by an occupation hiatus or decline and is accompanied by significant changes in settlement and material culture organization. In most parts of the floodplain of the Mississippi River and its tributaries there are few sites dating to this interval suggesting the river bottom was abandoned for several hundred years as a location for sustained habitation. High-resolution climate data demonstrates an episode of rapid global climate change involving significant alterations in temperature and precipitation in the period ca. 3000–2600 cal B.P. The proximate cause of this global climate occurrence is change in galactic cosmic ray intensity and solar irradiation possibly amplified by variations in the earth"s geomagnetic field. Global climate changes led to greatly increased flood frequencies and magnitudes in the Mississippi River watershed during the shift from Late Archaic to Early Woodland. In northeast Louisiana, increased flooding led to major fluvial reorganization that caused settlement abandonment and is associated with the demise of Poverty Point culture. Climate change and associated flooding is implicated as one cause of major cultural reorganization at the end of the Archaic throughout much of eastern North America
Archaeology · Aridification · Climate change · Drainage basin · Flooding (psychology) · Fluvial · Geography · Physical geography · Structural basin · Tributary · Woodland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Oceanography · Paleontology
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Poverty Point, Archaeology of
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Alluvial geoarchaeology of a Middle Archaic Mound complex in the lower Mississippi Valley, U.S.A
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Building Mound A at Poverty Point, Louisiana
Archaeology and paleogeography of a Lake‐Wetland complex
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Performance, ritual, and revitalization at Poverty Point
Tetrahedron baked-clay objects from an early woodland context at the Jaketown site, Mississippi
Contemplating the history and future of radiocarbon dating in the American Southeast
The complex construction history of Poverty Point’s timber circles and concentric ridges
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The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and its relation to rainfall and river flows in the continental U.S.
A Pervasive Millennial-Scale Cycle in North Atlantic Holocene and Glacial Climates
Persistent Solar Influence on North Atlantic Climate During the Holocene
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Holocene climate variability
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Changes in solar activity and Holocene climatic shifts derived from 14C wiggle-match dated peat deposits
A high-resolution record of late-Holocene moisture variability from a Michigan raised bog, USA
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Climatic change in Chile at around 2700 BP and global evidence for solar forcing
Pervasive and long-term forcing of Holocene river instability and flooding in Great Britain by centennial-scale climate change
Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley
Poverty Point Adaptive Systems in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley
Archaeology of the Southeastern United States
The hidden record
The Archaeology of Traditions
Late Woodland Societies
Development of the Radiocarbon Calibration Program
University of Texas at Austin Radiocarbon Dates VIII
The Sharp Rise of Δ 14 C ca . 800 cal BC
Radiocarbon Calibration and Analysis of Stratigraphy
The ‘Sterno-Etrussia’ Geomagnetic Excursion Around 2700 BP and Changes of Solar Activity, Cosmic Ray Intensity, and Climate
University of Texas at Austin Radiocarbon Dates VI
Chronology and Possible Links Between Climatic and Cultural Change During the First Millennium Bc in Southern Siberia and Central Asia
Dating the Volcanic Eruption at Thera
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates XV
Thermoluminescent Dating of Baked Clay Balls of the Poverty Point Culture
The Angry Earth
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University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates IV
Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River
Perspectives on Gulf Coast Prehistory
The Tombigbee Watershed in Southeastern Prehistory
The Extent and Content of Poverty Point Culture
Mapping Poverty Point
Placing Archaeology at the Center of Socio-Natural Studies
Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley
| Unique citing works | 49 |
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| Citations per year | 2,45 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 48 |