The Palaeoindian-Archaic transition in North America: New evidence from Texas

C. Britt Bousman; Michael B. Collins; Paul Goldberg; Thomas Stafford; Jan Guy; Barry W. Baker; D. Gentry Steele; Marvin Kay; Anne Kerr; Glen Fredlund; Phil Dering; Vance Holliday; Diane Wilson; Wulf Gose; Susan Dial; Paul Takac; Robin Balinsky; Marilyn Masson; Joseph F. Powell

doi:10.1017/S0003598X00091791

The Palaeoindian-Archaic transition in North America: New evidence from Texas

C. Britt Bousman
, Michael B. Collins
, Paul Goldberg
, Thomas Stafford
, Jan Guy
, Barry W. Baker
, D. Gentry Steele
, Marvin Kay
, Anne Kerr
, Glen Fredlund
, Phil Dering
, Vance Holliday
, Diane Wilson
, Wulf Gose
, Susan Dial
, Paul Takac
, Robin Balinsky
, Marilyn Masson
, Joseph F. Powell

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Abstract

The transition from Palaeoindian to Archaic societies in North America is often viewed as a linear progression over a brief but time-transgressive period. New evidence from the Wilson-Leonard site in Texas suggests social experimentation by Palaeoindians over a 2500-year period eventually resulted in Archaic societies. The process was neither short nor linear, and the evidence shows that different but contemporaneous lifeways existed in a variety of locales in the south-central US in the Early Holocene.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	980-990
Number of pages	11
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	76
Issue number	294
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00091791
State	Published - Dec 2002
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Archaic
Cultural transitions
Early Holocene
North America
Palaeoindian
Terminal Pleistocene

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Archaeology
General Arts and Humanities

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Bousman, C. B., Collins, M. B., Goldberg, P., Stafford, T., Guy, J., Baker, B. W., Steele, D. G., Kay, M., Kerr, A., Fredlund, G., Dering, P., Holliday, V., Wilson, D., Gose, W., Dial, S., Takac, P., Balinsky, R., Masson, M., & Powell, J. F. (2002). The Palaeoindian-Archaic transition in North America: New evidence from Texas. Antiquity, 76(294), 980-990. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00091791

Bousman, CB, Collins, MB, Goldberg, P, Stafford, T, Guy, J, Baker, BW, Steele, DG, Kay, M, Kerr, A, Fredlund, G, Dering, P, Holliday, V, Wilson, D, Gose, W, Dial, S, Takac, P, Balinsky, R, Masson, M & Powell, JF 2002, 'The Palaeoindian-Archaic transition in North America: New evidence from Texas', Antiquity, vol. 76, no. 294, pp. 980-990. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00091791

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