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Megadrought in the Carolinas : the archaeology of Mississippian collapse, abandonment, and coalescence /

"An enigma in southeastern archaeology is why a vast swath of land in coastal central South Carolina was abandoned in the 1400s. By 1540 and the Spanish Entrada of De Soto, this area was called the Desert of Ocute, after the Ocute people. Cable's long-term research shows that abandonment t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cable, John S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]
Colección:Archaeology of the American South.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Central South Carolina Coast : at the margins of South Appalachian Mississippian interaction
  • A model of ceramic change for the eastern wing of South Appalachian Mississippian
  • The fifteenth-century depopulation of the Central South Carolina Coast
  • The cultural and natural geography of megadrought
  • Regions of the Greater Desert of Ocute
  • Migration to the ring of drought resilience
  • Drought-related indigenous disease epidemics
  • The broader implications of late prehistoric societal collapse and transformation in the southern latitudes of the United States during an age of global warming.