Measuring Paleoindian range mobility and land-use in the Great Lakes/Northeast

摘要: Abstract Distance and direction to source data were compiled on the main toolstones employed at 83 Paleoindian sites with concave-based points (ca. 11,000–10,000 B.P.) from across recently deglaciated Great Lake-Northeastern area of North America. These used in order more rigorously evaluate several much debated ideas about annual range mobility scale land use patterns how they changed over time as these groups colonized settled into area. Movements are significantly biased north–south axes, strongly suggesting represent mainly seasonal moves procurement during regular travels rather than by specialized task groups. Means comparing ethnographic norms explored results clearly show that groups, especially earliest occupants, had large scales distinctive rarely seen or approached historically. They have been intensively targeting widely spaced but relatively abundant resources landscape. The only who come close such historically all caribou hunters, a perspective consistent idea regularly exploited resource. As long suggested, probably related colonization new lands which there little no existing populations.