The dynamics of fishing villages along the South Atlantic Coast of North America (ca. 5000-3000 years BP).

ABSTRACT: We present new chronologies that inform the timing and tempo of shell ring and shell mound construction on the South Atlantic Bight. Our project combines recently acquired dates with legacy radiocarbon dates from over 25 rings and mounds to provide a higher-resolution chronology regarding the occupation and formation of this larger landscape of the earliest fishing villages along the East Coast of the United States. We resolve the ordering and timing of occupation of these rings and mounds through Bayesian statistical modeling. These new models historicize and contextualize these shell rings in ways previously impossible. Specifically, our new chronologies of these villages indicate that the earliest villages were established prior to the invention of pottery. The early period of village e

SUBMITTER: Thompson VD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10897379 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature