Shell middens, sometimes in the form of mounds of great size, are a ubiquitous indicator of
coastal settlement and exploitation of marine resources across the world. However, shell …

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 …

The impact of changing climate on terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites, historic
buildings, and cultural landscapes can be examined through quantitatively-based analyses …

2 1 Introduction agree on any single scheme for faunal successions, and, secondly, instead
of using presence-absence of species, Lartet used the relative abundance of species. How …

This comparative synthesis examines archaeological and ethnohistoric data pertaining to
Native American coastal adaptations along the southern coasts of the eastern United States …

In order to find out about and discuss the peopling of the Americas, there is evidence that
comes from a range of scientific disciplines. In archaeology, stone tool vestiges are one of …

Submerged prehistoric sites investigated in northwest Florida along the margins of the
drowned Aucilla River channel (or PaleoAucilla) extend our understanding of prehistoric …

This article synthesizes the 2000s-era “peopling of the Americas” data drawn from molecular
biology, osteology, and archaeology. Collectively, they suggest that colonization proceeded …

Abstract Over the last 20,000 years, one third of the continental land mass of Australia, or
2.12 million km2, has been drowned by postglacial sea-level rise. Much of this drowned …

Over the last 20,000 years, approximately 15–20 million km 2 of coastal landscape has been
submerged worldwide, roughly the area of South America (Faure et al., 2002). Sea-level rise …