Modeling the Abandonment of the Central Plains
Radiocarbon Dates and the Origin of the Initial Coalescent
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9216889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald J Blakeslee (0000-0002-5174-3053, Department of Anthropology, Wichita State Univerairty, Wichita, KS, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 145 |
| Pages | 199-214 |
| Publication date | 1993-08-01 |
| 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 | 10.1080/2052546.1993.11931653 |
| OpenAlex | W2469384480 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper examines two models for the abandonment of the Central Plains and the northward migration ofCaddoan speakers into territory formerly held by the Initial Middle Missouri variant. One is the drought theory, which in its modem form asserts that the onset of the Pacific I climatic regime caused droughts across the Central Plains, forcing abandonment of the region. The other is a swidden horticulture model which sees abandonment of various Central Plains localities as generated by the internal dynamic of the subsistence system.Radiocarbon dates for and the spatial patterning of the drought and local abandonments are used to test both models. The results indicate that the abandonment of well-dated localities occurred long after the onset of the Pacific I climate, and other localities were not abandoned until Pacific II times. The spatial patterning of the abandonments also does not fit the climatic model. The swidden model is better supported by the radiocarbon dates, which also indicate that the end of the Initial Middle Missouri variant occurred about one generation after the arrival of Initial Coalescent people
Abandonment (legal) · Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Coalescent theory · Geography · Physical geography · Radiocarbon dating · Subsistence agriculture · Tephra · Volcano · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |