An Annotated List of Critical References
for Southeastern Paleoindian Studies
Anderson, David G.
•1990 The Paleoindian Colonization of Eastern
North America: A View from the Southeastern United States. In Early
Paleoindian Economies of Eastern North America, edited by Kenneth.
B. Tankersley and Barry L. Isaac, pp. 163-216. Research in Economic
Anthropology, Supplement 5. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press. [A major overview
of Southeastern Paleoindian archeology, including quantitative analyses
of fluted point distributions across Eastern North America, and the
presentation of the "staging area" colonization model.]
Anderson, David G., and Kenneth E. Sassaman (editors)
•1996 The Paleoindian and Early Archaic
Southeast. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. [The first and
currently only edited volume on Paleoindian research conducted in the
Southeast. Descriptive data and current models are presented in detail.
Chapters by local authorities encompass most of the states in the region.]
Brennan, Louis A.
•1982 A Compilation of Fluted Points of
Eastern North America by Count and Distribution: An AENA Project. Archaeology
of Eastern North America 10:27-46. [The first major attempt to quantitatively
document the number of fluted points found in portions of eastern North
America.]
Claggett, Stephen R., and John S. Cable (assemblers)
•1982 The Haw River Sites: Archaeological
Investigations at Two Stratified Sites in the North Carolina Piedmont.
Report R-2386. Commonwealth Associates, Jackson, Mich. [One of the finest
Paleoindian site reports produced in the Southeast, exemplary both for
its theoretical perspective and extensive description.]
Daniel, I. Randolph, Jr., and Michael Wisenbaker
•1987 Harney Flats: A Florida Paleoindian
Site. Baywood Publishing Company, New York. [A classic Paleoindian
site report, one of a very few from the region.]
DeJarnette, David L., E. Kurjack, and J. Cambron
•1962 Excavations at the Stanfield-Worley
Bluff Shelter. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 8(1-2):1-124. [A
classic Paleoindian site report, one of a very few from the region.]
Dunbar, James S.
•1991 Resource Orientation of Clovis and
Suwannee Age Paleoindian Sites in Florida. In Clovis: Origins and
Adaptations, edited by R. Bonnichsen and K. Turnmire, pp. 185-213.
Corvallis: Center for the Study of the First Americans, Oregon State
University. [The only reasonably current synthesis of Florida Paleoindian
archeology.]
Ellis, Christopher, Albert C. Goodyear, III, Dan F. Morse, and Kenneth
B. Tankersley
•1998 Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene
Transition in Eastern North America. Quaternary International
49/50:151-166. [A good synthetic article on recent Paleoindian research
in Eastern North America.]
Faught, Michael K.
•1996 Clovis Origins and Underwater
Prehistoric Archaeology in Northwestern Florida. Ph.D. dissertation,
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. [One of the
first attempts to systematically document offshore Paleoindian sites,
coupled with a detailed synthesis of North American Paleoindian evidence.]
Gardner, William M.
•1974 The Flint Run Paleoindian Complex:
A Preliminary Report 1971 through 1973 Seasons. Occasional Paper
No. 1. Archaeology Laboratory, Catholic University of America. Washington,
D.C. [The only major publication on this important site complex]
Goldman-Finn, Nurit, and Boyce N. Driskell
•1994 Introduction to Archaeological Research
at Dust Cave. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 40:1-16. [Introduces
an volume devoted to research at Dust Cave, perhaps the best excavated
rockshelter site in the lower Southeast]
Goodyear, Albert C., III
•1974 The Brand Site: A Techno-functional
Study of a Dalton Site in Northeast Arkansas. Research Series 7.
Fayetteville: Arkansas Archaeological Survey. [One of the finest site
reports produced in the Southeast, and an excellent description of the
Dalton toolkit.]
•1982 The Chronological Position of the
Dalton Horizon in the Southeastern United States. American Antiquity
47:382-95. [An important paper documenting the probable age of the Dalton
assemblages in the East.]
•1999 The Early Holocene Occupation of
the Southeastern United States: A Geoarcheological Summary. In Ice
Age Peoples of North America, edited by Robson Bonnichsen and Karen
L. Turnmire, pp. 432-481. Center for the Study of the First Americans,
Oregon State University, Corvallis. [A major summary of Paleoindian
research in the Southeast, focusing on the geoarcheological context
of major excavation assemblages].
Mason, Ronald J.
•1962 The Paleo-Indian Tradition in Eastern
North America. Current Anthropology 3:227-83. [The first major
synthesis of Eastern Paleoindian, including distributional information.
Suggests fluting technology may have originated in the East.]
McAvoy, Joseph M.
•1992 Nottoway River Survey: Part I:
Clovis Settlement Patterns: The 30 Year Study of a Late Ice Age Hunting
Culture on the Southern Interior Coastal Plain of Virginia. Archeological
Society of Virginia Special Publication Number 28. Dietz Press, Richmond.
[A classic survey report, the finest produced from the region focusing
on Paleoindian assemblages.]
McAvoy, Joseph M, and Lynn D. McAvoy
•1997 Archaeological Investigations
of Site 44SX202, Cactus Hill, Sussex County, Virginia. Virginia
Department of Historic Resources, Research Report Series No. 8. Richmond.
[A classic site report of early work on what may prove to be the first
conclusively documented pre-Clovis site in the region.]
McCary, Ben C.
•1975 The Williamson Paleo-Indian Site,
Dinwiddie County, Virginia. The Chesopiean 13:48-131. Reprinted
in Peck 1985. [A classic Paleoindian site report, one of a very few
from the region.]
•1991 Survey of Virginia Fluted Points.
Archeological Society of Virginia Special Publication 12. 2nd ed., rev.
(originally published 1984). [A compilation of results from the longest
operating fluted point survey in the country, whose results have been
published regularly since the late 1940s. Although McCary has passed
on, his work has been continued in recent years by Michael F. Johnson
and Joyce E. Pearsall. Information on over 1000 fluted points has been
published to date, an appreciable percentage of the well-documented
fluted points known from the entire country.]
Meltzer, David J.
•1988 Late Pleistocene Human Adaptations
in Eastern North America. Journal of World Prehistory 2:1-53.
[A major synthetic paper proposing differences in settlement and subsistence
between northern and southern Paleoindian populations.]
Morse, Dan F.
•1997 Sloan: A Paleoindian Dalton Cemetery
in Arkansas. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. [A
classic site report on a Dalton cemetery, the oldest formal cemetery
in North America.]
Morse, Dan F., David G. Anderson, and Albert. C. Goodyear, III
•1996 The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition
in the Eastern United States. In Humans at the End of the Ice-Age:
The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition, edited by
Lawrence Guy Strauss, Berit Valentin Eriksen, John M. Erlandson and
David R. Yesner, pp. 319-338. Plenum Press, New York. [A good synthesis
of Eastern Paleoindian, with an emphasis on the Southeast.]
Rolingson, Martha A.
•1964 Paleoindian Culture in Kentucky:
A Study Based on Projectile Points. Studies in Archaeology 2. Lexington:
University of Kentucky. [An early classic study of Paleoindian artifacts
from the Southeast.]
Sanders, Thomas N.
•1990 Adams: The Manufacturing of Flaked
Stone Tools at a Paleoindian Site in Western Kentucky. Persimmon
Press, Buffalo, N.Y. [A classic site report with excellent descriptive
and comparative analyses.]
Walthall, John A.
•1998 Rockshelters and Hunter-Gatherer
Adaptation to the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition. American Antiquity
63:223-238. [An important overview of Paleoindian use of rockshelters
in Eastern North America]
Walthall, John A., and Brad Koldehoff
•1998 Hunter-gatherer Interaction and Alliance
Formation: Dalton and the Cult of the Long Blade. Plains Anthropologist
43:257-273. [An important examination of Dalton interaction in the central
Mississippi Valley.]
Webb, Clarence H., J. L. Shiner, and E. W. Roberts
•1971 The John Pearce Site (16CD56): A
San Patrice Site in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Bulletin of the Texas
Archaeological Society 42:1-49. [One of the best descriptions of
a San Patrice site and assemblages ever produced.]
Williams, Stephen, and James B. Stoltman
•1965 An Outline of Southeastern United
States Prehistory with Particular Emphasis on the Paleoindian Era. In
The Quaternary of the United States, edited by H. E. Wright and
D. G. Frey, pp. 669-83. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
[A major early synthesis of eastern Paleoindian.]
Wittkofski, J. Mark, and Theodore R. Reinhart (editors)
•1989 Paleoindian Research in Virginia:
A Synthesis. Special Publication 19. Archeological Society of Virginia,
Richmond. [An excellent theoretical and descriptive reader on Virginia's
Paleoindian archeological record]
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