Research into the earliest occupations in the southeastern United States has been
underway since the 1930s, when a pattern of large-scale excavations combined with the …

ABSTRACT The Pacific coast of North America is a hypothesized route by which the earliest
inhabitants of the Americas moved southwards around the western margin of the Cordilleran …

Forty years ago, Knut Fladmark (1979) argued that the Pacific Coast offered a viable
alternative to the ice-free corridor model for the initial peopling of the Americas—one of the …

Twenty-first-century global warming poses a significant threat to the cultural heritage of
coastal regions, but the effects of sea-level rise and changing weather patterns will not be …

Since the 19th century, the study of shell middens has played an important role in
archaeological research. Shell midden and broader coastal archaeology have transformed …

In the first issue of the Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology published 10 years ago,
Erlandson and Fitzpatrick (2006) outlined eight topics which demonstrated why island and …

Abstract The Middle Stone Age (MSA) of Africa documents the earliest and longest record of
marine resource use and coastal settlements by modern humans. Here, we provide a long …

Shell middens, or shell-matrix deposits, occur in large numbers across the coastlines of the
world from the mid-Holocene (ca. 6000–5000 cal BC) onwards, often forming substantial …

Site formation processes are “the factors that create the historic and archaeological
records”(Schiffer 1987, 7). These factors include both natural and anthropogenic forces …

Abstract The northern Pacific Coast is an important area for understanding human
colonization of the Americas, but Late Pleistocene coastal sites are rare and interglacial sea …