Publications by authors named "Elliot Blair"
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- * These sites reveal some of the earliest year-round Native American villages in the Eastern Woodlands of North America, containing artifacts like pottery and faunal remains along with the shells.
- * Research shows that these communities thrived for over 1000 years, adapting to changing sea levels that influenced their fishing practices, particularly targeting oyster reefs.
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.
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