Lithic Technological Organization of the Suwannee Tradition: A View from the Ryan-Harley Site (8JE1004), Florida, USA

IF 1.6 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

PaleoAmerica Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI:10.1080/20555563.2023.2283670

Morgan F. Smith

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Suwannee points are an unfluted lanceolate style found on the Lower Southeastern Coastal Plain of North America. Suwannee points are undated but thought to represent a regional, post-Clovis group that lived during the Younger Dryas, with a hypothesized age range of ∼12,700-11,500 years ago based on contextual data. This paper presents analyses of the Suwannee component from Ryan-Harley, the only known discrete Suwannee assemblage. The site is interpreted as representing “gearing up” ahead of a mobility event. The toolkit and assemblage from Ryan-Harley demonstrate that Suwannee people practiced residential mobility and maintained an adaptable, versatile toolkit. However, some elements of the assemblage, like dependence on local tool stone, are more common in logistically organized groups. This mixture of provisioning strategies indicates that the Suwannee assemblage at Ryan-Harley may exhibit the start of a transition toward logistical organization which began after the end of the Younger Dryas in this region.

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苏瓦尼传统的石器技术组织：来自美国佛罗里达州瑞安-哈雷遗址（8JE1004）的观点

摘要苏瓦尼点是在北美东南沿海平原下部发现的一种无槽披针形。苏瓦尼点没有年代，但被认为代表了生活在幼年旱季的后克洛维斯时期的区域性群体，根据上下文数据推测其年代范围为距今 12,700 至 11,500 年。本文介绍了对 Ryan-Harley 遗址中苏旺尼族成分的分析，这是目前已知的唯一一个离散的苏旺尼族集合。该遗址被解释为代表着一次流动活动之前的 "准备"。Ryan-Harley 遗址出土的工具包和组合物表明，苏瓦尼人从事居住流动，并保持着一套适应性强、用途广泛的工具包。然而，工具包中的某些元素，如对当地工具石的依赖，在有后勤组织的群体中更为常见。这种混合的供给策略表明，瑞安-哈雷的苏瓦尼人集合可能展示了向后勤组织过渡的开端，这一过渡是在该地区的幼干冰期结束之后开始的。

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PaleoAmerica Earth and Planetary Sciences-Paleontology

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