Karen Smith

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the analytical power and complementarity of two methods, frequency seriation (FS) and correspondence analysis (CA), for building chronological sequences, exploring rates of change, and recognizing synchronie spadai variation, in the context of the precontact history of southeastern North America.

TL;DR: Measurement of ~40,000 oyster shells from archaeological sites along the Atlantic Coast of the United States provides a long-term record of oyster abundance and size, demonstrating increases in oyster size across time and a nonrandom pattern in their distributions across sites.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigate Native American oyster harvest through time in North America and Australia, placing these data in the context of sea level histories and historical catch records, and find that oyster fisheries were pervasive across space and through time, persisting for 5000-10,000 years or more.

TL;DR: Reconstructed procedures for several paddle designs emphasize the stepwise nature of creating art in this style and the value of reconstructed whole paddle designs in the study of layout, symmetry, design concept, and other stylistic domains are demonstrated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new partial-to-global curve matching algorithm was developed to identify the designs of the carved wooden paddles of the Southeastern Woodlands from unearthed pottery sherds.