Paleoindian Toolstone Provisioning and Settlement Organization at the Higgins Site (18AN489).

摘要: The Paleoindian archaeological record of Mid-Atlantic North America offers insight into the diversity of lifeways in North America during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, as huntergatherers adapted to varying environments across the continent. Research focused on lithic technological activities and settlement organization is important for documenting and explaining this diversity in early hunter-gatherer adaptations. Analyses of archaeological assemblages from sites such as Thunderbird, Williamson, the Paw Paw Cove Complex, and Shawnee-Minisink (Figure 10.1) suggest that Paleoindians in the Mid-Atlantic United States differed in these respects from Clovis Paleoindians of the Plains and southwest North America (Custer et al. 1983; Dent 1995, 2002; Gardner 1974, 1977, 1983; Gingerich 2007a, 2007b, 2011; Lowery 2002; McAvoy 1992; McNett et al. 1985; Meltzer 1988). In order to evaluate Mid-Atlantic settlement organization models, this analysis focuses on the fluted point component from the Higgins site, Anne Arundel County, Maryland (Figure 10.1). This research builds on previous research by the site’s excavator, C. Ebright (1992), who provided analysis and interpretation of the fluted point component in a contract report on the Higgins site. This chapter revisits the Higgins fluted point component to critically assess the component context and present additional lithic assemblage data, in order to place the site more specifically in the context of regional settlement organization models.In this chapter I present the fluted point component from the Higgins site. I conclude that despite evidence of component mixing, the lithic …