Early Paleoindian Mobility and Watercraft: An Assessment from the Mississippi River Valley. Issue 2 (May 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Morrow, Juliet E.
• Is Part Of: Midcontinental journal of archaeology. Volume 39:Issue 2(2014)
• Page Start: 103
• Page End: 129
• Publication Date: 2014-05
• Subjects: Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; United States -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; 977
• DOI: 10.1179/2327427113Y.0000000001
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0146-1109

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>Several researchers have suggested use of watercraft during the Early Paleoindian period 11, 500 and 10, 800 rcybp (13, 400–12, 700 cal B.P.), but none have brought empirical data to bear on this possibility. This paper addresses the potential for fluted point-making groups to have made and used boats circa 11, 000 rcybp (13, 000–12, 800 cal B.P.). Fluted point data from a large region of the upper and central Mississippi River valley strongly suggest that the Mississippi River was a barrier to movement and that Early Paleoindians in the midcontinent did not routinely use watercraft.</p> </abstract>