Watershed: Archaeology at Dust Cave

The Dust Cave site has benefited from both modern excavation methods and a small army of archaeological specialists conducting the analysis over the course of several decades. There is more detailed information about the lives of the people who lived there more than 12,000 years ago and onward than nearly any other site of its kind in the Southeast.

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Related content:

Home movies from Dust Cave, 2002:    • Dust Cave Movie  
How to make stone tools:    • Knapping and the Reduction Process  
Demographic change in the Middle Archaic:    • The Abandonment and Re Settlement of ...  
Mast resources and Women in prehistory:    • The Power of Pecans (and other nuts) ...  
The Shell Mound Archaic:    • Molluscan Necropolis: The Archaeology...  
Mast Resources in the Eastern Woodlands:    • The Power of Pecans (and other nuts) ...  


References:

Hollenbach, Kandace D.
2005 Gathering in the Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic in Northwestern Alabama. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Homsey-Messer, Lara K.
2015 Revisiting the Role of Caves and Rockshelters in the Hunter-Gatherer Taskscape of the Archaic Midsouth. American Antiquity 80:332-352.

McMillan, Katherine Elizabeth,
2016 Technological Adaptations at Dust Cave, Alabama (1LU496): An Evaluation of Organizational Strategies from the Late Paleoindian to the Middle Archaic. PhD diss., University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Walker, Renee B.
1998 The Late Paleoindian through Middle Archaic Faunal Evidence from Dust Cave, Alabama. PhD Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.